Mark H. Leeds

Mark advises on the tax aspects of capital markets, structured finance, derivatives, financial products and insurance transactions and has extensive experience working with both buyers and sellers to develop and structure complex derivatives, including litigation finance transactions. A significant portion of his work involves the taxation of financial products and trading strategies engaged in by banks and other financial market participants. He also advises on hedge fund and other investment vehicle formation matters. Mark does extensive work with digital assets, including cryptocurrencies, non-fungible tokens and blockchain transactions.

Mark is a former managing director and senior tax counselor with Deutsche Bank in New York. He also served as the general counsel of a credit derivative company and was a partner at Deloitte & Touche, where he led the capital markets tax practice.

Mark is a frequent writer and speaker on tax topics affecting capital markets and digital assets.