Our tax services
Corporate transactions
Whether your clients are seeking to grow their business through acquisition or realise value through restructuring or sale, our corporate transactions tax specialists can advise you. We deliver expertise, both in the UK and internationally, on all M&A and private equity transactions including due diligence, acquisitions, disposals, mergers, demergers, reconstructions, reorganisations, raising finance, flotations, MBOs and MBIs.
Potential areas of interest
- Your clients want to realise the value of their business
- You need considered advice on the tax implications of an acquisition or disposal structure
- You need a due diligence assessment of your clients’ operations
Benefits of working with our Tax Support for Professionals team
- We can help reduce tax risk across the range of services we offer for corporate transactions
- Working closely together we can plan M&A transaction structures in the most tax-efficient way
- Our economic and valuation specialists have had particular success in implementing significant tax savings through tax modelling and transfer pricing structures for funding
Our specialist tax services include
- Tax-efficient acquisition and disposal structures for both vendors and purchasers
- Cash-based, share-based and carried-interest incentive arrangements and executive compensation
- Drafting and negotiating tax indemnities and warranties
- Due diligence at the bidding and preferred bidder stage
- Tax efficient pre-sale and post-sale reorganisations
- Preparation and negotiation of tax clearance applications
- The structuring of earn-outs, including issues associated with the restricted securities regime
- Designing and drafting share purchase and share option plans
- Advising on VAT issues relevant to transactional work
- Designing and drafting loan finance documentation
- Dissident shareholder issues
- Transfer pricing and thin capitalisation solutions for acquisition
- Financing advice including forward agreements as recommended by the BVCA
- Stamp duty planning and reliefs
- Valuations of shares, business assets and intellectual property
- Post-transactional support and on-going tax advice including
- Compliance services
To find out more about how we can help your clients’ businesses, please contact your specialist tax adviser.
Key contacts for this service| Paula Tallon | T 020 7893 3477 | E |
| Jeff Webber | T 020 7893 3578 | E |
| Martin Mann | T 020 7893 3192 | E |
