Christopher Cairns

Chris is an International Tax Partner with 18 + years of experience providing international tax advisory services to asset managers both within New York and the UK.
Chris trained with PwC in Edinburgh, UK, and spent over 8 years working in the UK advising UK based asset management clients on the structuring of their funds and management companies. Chris also advised several large UK based assets managers on UK and Overseas investor tax reporting considerations for their offshore funds.
In 2014 Chris moved to the International Tax Services – Financial Services team in New York and since then has focused on advising alternative asset managers (including a number of Private Equity, Hedge, Credit and Venture Capital fund managers) on cross border tax structuring considerations for their funds and management companies. Given Chris’ experience of working in the UK, Chris spends a significant amount of his time advising several significant UK funds on structuring inbound investments into the US.
Chris also spends a significant amount of his time advising several significant alternative funds in New York on a wide variety of international tax structuring matters, including ongoing developments in relation to the OECD’s BEPS initiative, EU Anti Tax Avoidance Directives and US tax reform proposals.
Chris received a BAcc (Hons) in accounting from the University of Glasgow and is a qualified Chartered Accounting with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.