Maarten Derksen

Maarten Derksen has more than 20 years of global tax expertise working with private equity (“PE”), real estate and infrastructure manager companies. His experience includes extensive buy- and sell-side deal structuring, fund structuring and portfolio company planning.

Mr. Derksen brings his deep technical knowledge of U.S. and global tax strategies to provide practical cross-border tax structuring solutions to clients. He is well-versed in international tax structure within M&A transactions, with a particular focus on digital infrastructure. Mr. Derksen has a proven track record of working with a wide range of stakeholders at large and middle market PE and real estate managers, including deal and investment professionals, CFOs, COOs and tax directors.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Derksen was global head of tax at DigitalBridge, where he oversaw tax vendor relationships for a $50 billion global investor in digital infrastructure. He also led tax diligence and structuring on investments throughout the capital structure in the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia. Previously, he was a tax partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Relevant Experience:

• Structured institutional and high-net-worth investors into a $10 billion PE, a $2 billion credit and a $1 billion venture fund catering to the specific needs of each investor
• Evaluated tax ramifications for the investor committee of a $100 billion global digital infrastructure transaction, eventually providing tax diligence and structuring services for $20 billion worth of target companies
• Worked closely with portfolio companies (“portco”), both in-house and in a consultant capacity to design and implement strategies that enhance the portco effective tax rate (“ETR”) as well as that of the investors
• Saved a client millions of dollars in expenses on an annual basis through an introduction of cutting-edge technology to the tax department