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Untangling your thorny tax issues.

From well-established global businesses to fast-growing startups, we provide tax and structuring advice on a range of transactional and advisory matters. Whether you are head of tax at a large corporate, an experienced dealmaker familiar with tax or a successful entrepreneur new to tax issues – we deliver clear, actionable advice tailored to your needs.

We offer bespoke structuring and other technical work along with traditional tax legal services, collaborating with your internal teams and advisers where necessary. And we do that internationally, through our overseas offices and close working relationships with leading local law firms.

Corporate M&A

When you're selling a business or major asset, we'll take a holistic approach – helping you understand how you'll be taxed on the proceeds, liaising with tax authorities where needed and keeping sight of the bigger picture. We also offer wider structuring advice that may be needed in advance of a deal, such as hive outs or demergers of assets.

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Real Estate

We specialise in complex real estate structuring and tax advisory work for investors, developers and occupiers on joint ventures, funds and infrastructure projects, such as the development of Media City UK.

We also advise household names such as Marks & Spencer on their UK landlord and tenant matters and real estate development projects.

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Private Equity

We are experts in private equity transactions and provide advice to buyers, sellers and management to minimise risk and maximise returns. We'll help you understand the tax consequences of your disposal and reinvestment in your investor's structure and guide you on any value you may be taking off the table.

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Finance

We advise both borrowers and lenders, including international banks and building societies, on various funding options. Our expertise encompasses real estate finance, acquisition financing, structured finance transactions such as securitisations, and receivables transactions such as portfolio sales.

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Employee Incentives

Working closely with our Employment team, we help devise optimum solutions for the tax-efficient incentivisation of your workforce. Our expertise includes:

Designing innovative reward and incentive structures which are meaningful and commercially targeted, in line with market practice and legal requirements
Tax advice on reward structures, including corporation tax deductibility and social security positions
Understanding how institutional investors are responding to the economic climate and assisting with shareholder discussions
Providing cross-border support on international share plans
Guiding you through the interaction of your share plans with transactions, including the process of how to exercise awards.

Funds

As an integral part of the global AG Private Funds practice, we advise at all stages of the fund lifecycle, from formation to funding, through the investment cycles and into continuation or dissolution. We act for sponsors, GPs and investors, providing tax advice throughout all our practicing jurisdictions, informed by the depth of our technical understanding and grounded in market expertise.

Advising Diageo on purchasing Don Papa

We advised Diageo on purchasing the Don Papa rum brand in a deal worth up to €400 million and provided tax advice on specific risks.

We worked closely with Diageo's in-house tax team, to negotiate a robust set of tax warranties and indemnities and liased with advisers in the Philippines on bespoke international tax issues.

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A decade working with Valencia Club de Fútbol

For over a decade, we have been the exclusive tax advisor to Valencia Club de Fútbol on a range of matters including football players’ and sponsors' contracts, buying, transferring and dismissing players, and international transactions with clubs in different jurisdictions, such as Argentina and Brazil.

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A landmark deal by the UK’s second largest building society

When Coventry Building Society asked us to advise them on the acquisition of The Co-operative Bank, we immediately recognised the deal as a watershed moment for high street banking and for the UK mutual sector.

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Business transformation for Lloyds Pharmacy

We have worked with Lloyds Pharmacy for over 25 years, and in this project we fielded a 300-strong team of consultants, project managers, legal technologists, paralegals, and lawyers, placed across the right locations and legal disciplines to help sell hundreds of pharmacies.

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Tax and structuring highlights

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Tier 1 ranked for 'The Regions' - Chambers 2024

Tier 1 ranked for the NorthWest, UK – Legal 500

We've advised on 5000 matters in the last 3 years

#1

Ranked

Tier 1 ranked for 'The Regions' - Chambers 2024

Tier 1 ranked for the NorthWest, UK – Legal 500

5000+

Matters

We've advised on 5000 matters in the last 3 years

I have always found the team to be approachable, willing and quick to help and incredibly knowledgeable.

The entire team at all levels is fantastic, they understand our scheme and are on-hand to assist.

They would go above and beyond to make themselves available at very short notice if required.

The team is always responsive to us and also very approachable.

Their advice was excellent, clearly articulated and delivered very swiftly. The team was able to call on a range of additional expertise that was needed.

Our work

LDC

We advised on the award-winning investment by private equity house, LDC, into Boston Energy, a Yorkshire based business providing technical and training support for wind turbines. We provided tax support on the transaction, working closely with LDC's in-house tax team to ensure that identified tax risks were robustly covered and negotiated with the seller's tax advisor, KPMG, to resolve issues.

Veeda Clinical Research

We advised Veeda Clinical Research, a world-leading CRO based in India, on its acquisition of the Irish headquartered Heads Research group which operates throughout Europe. We provided tax advice on the structuring and funding of the acquisition in conjunction with Veeda's Indian advisors, including matters relating to Indian investment regulations. We also negotiated tax warranties and indemnities covering multiple jurisdictions throughout Europe to cover specific international issues.