Charles Lubar

Partner

Charles Lubar is the Managing Partner of the London office and head of Morgan Lewis's Tax Practice in London. Charles's practice focuses on all aspects of international taxation, including corporate, individual, trust and estate planning for U.S. persons doing business or living abroad and foreign persons doing business in the United States.

Charles also handles corporate and individual tax planning for in-bound investment into the United Kingdom, international estate taxation matters and issues involving the entertainment industry including the film, recording and publishing fields. He is well-known for several high profile tax structuring matters in which he took the leading role including the production of the Muppet Show in London and the acquisition of the ATV Music Catalogue (including the Beatles Catalogue) for Michael Jackson. He has represented many well-known personages over the years, including John Cleese, Ivo Pogorelich, Yehudi Menuhin, Jane Seymour, Erich Segal, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and others.

Charles is active in many civic and charitable organizations. He is the senior partner in the London office. As a Harvard Law Alumnus, he was selected as a Traphagen Distinguished alumni speaker to discuss his career with law school students as noted in a recent issue of Harvard Law School Bulletin. After working for the Internal Revenue Service in Washington in the Chief Counsel's office, Charles left the legal profession for two years to go into business in Nairobi, Kenya. Charles returned to practice in London in 1971 and established his own firm in 1974. In 1981, he opened the firm's London office. He speaks some Russian and French.

Charles is admitted to practice in Maryland only. He is a registered foreign lawyer with the Law Society of England and Wales.