Max Torpy
Deals Tax Partner
PwC United Kingdom
PwC UK Deals Tax Market Leader and member of the UK Tax Leadership Team. Tax advisor to private equity and corporate clients on the full range of transactions.
Max is a Deals Tax partner who has spent his career advising financial and strategic buyers and sellers on all tax aspects of the full range of transactions including acquisitions, disposals, initial public offerings (IPOs), refinancings and restructurings. His focus is on supporting clients to create and protect value through tax over the investment lifecycle.
Over an 18 year career, Max has accumulated extensive experience advising a broad range of clients including private equity firms, large listed or privately owned corporations, infrastructure and sovereign investment funds.
Max leads PwC UK’s Deals Tax business. Deals Tax is a national team of almost 400 people which advises private equity, corporate, real estate, infrastructure, private credit and sovereign investment funds on all tax aspects of transactions. The team also advises private equity and real asset portfolio companies throughout the investment lifecycle.
Max is a Fellow of the ICAEW and earned a Masters in Mathematics from Imperial College. He speaks English, Italian and German.
“In a world of increasing tax rates and complexity, high quality tax advice is becoming an ever more critical driver of deal value. This goes beyond deal execution to the key role tax can play in value creation and value protection throughout the investment lifecycle.”
At a glance
Areas of focus
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Private Equity
- Sovereign Investment Funds
- International Tax Structuring
- Due Diligence
- Incentivisation
Experience
- Led PwC UK’s Deals Tax business from January 2022 - June 2024
- PwC UK Tax industry leader of Private Equity
- Advising a global investment fund on significant private equity and growth equity investments
- Advising a European asset manager on the acquisition of a private credit business
- Advising a leading international investment firm on a range of transactions throughout Europe, the US and Asia
