Heather Cooper

Senior Director
20+ years of experience in consulting and in-house roles
Experience in reward and HR services across industries
London
@alvarezmarsal
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Heather Cooper is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Tax in London. She has more than 20 years of experience in HR and reward, both in-house and consulting, with clients across various industries, including automotive, energy, government, industrial, professional services, and technology.

Prior to joining A&M, Ms. Cooper spent three years with Korn Ferry where she served as Senior Principal. During her time at Korn Ferry, Ms. Cooper led projects across the reward spectrum, advising clients from Board level through to operational HR on topics such as short- and long-term incentive design, executive reward, job architecture, grading structures, and performance management. Notable assignments included developing a new remuneration structure for a manufacturing organization in the Gulf Cooperation Council, harmonizing reward arrangements post-merger for an international renewables enterprise, and designing a new performance management and incentive structure for a global industrial organization. 

In addition to her consulting work, Ms. Cooper worked for seven years in generalist HR roles at L’Oréal and spent eight years as Head of Compensation and Benefits for a multinational corporation in the nuclear sector.

Ms. Cooper earned a bachelor’s degree in linguistics from the University of Cambridge.  

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In many M&A share transactions, tax losses may represent significant hidden value. But that value depends particularly on two key questions: Can the tax losses survive the transaction and can the parties mutually agree on a business plan substantiating the future usage of the potentially surviving tax losses? Our article outlines how jurisdiction-specific rules — especially Germany’s strict change-in-ownership regime — affect the usability of tax losses post-closing, whether tax losses can provide a shelter for historic tax risks and why tax losses impact purchase price negotiations.
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