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Our experience
Below is a selection of tax matters members of our team have advised on:
Corporate
- advising UK corporates (public and private) and multinationals on UK and cross-border business/share sales and acquisitions, including in relation to pre-sale group reorganisations, tax efficient acquisition structures and post-acquisition matters.
- advising a major UK Plc on structuring of cross-border demerger, structuring and execution of prior group reorganisation and eventual multi-jurisdictional share/asset sale
- advising UK corporates and multinationals on UK and cross-border mergers, including in the context of break up bids
- acting for both issuers and arrangers/dealers on initial public offerings, secondary placings, cash box placings, rights issues and bonus issues
- advising a Japanese corporate in relation to issues arising on proposed takeover of UK listed company, including transfer pricing and UK CFC issues
- advising UK listed company in relation to a return of cash to shareholders
Private Equity
- advising Steven Esom, the incoming Non-Executive Chairman of Bart Spices Group Holdings Limited, on his investment in this company. The company was formed to facilitate an acquisition of Bart Spices, one of the UK's leading quality herbs and spices suppliers, by private equity firm Langholm Capital
- advising a number of private equity funds on UK acquisitions, including in relation to inward investment into the UK, tax efficient acquisition structures and tax issues affecting management
- advising private equity team at UK bank on tax efficient investment structures for both bank and management, in relation to employee incentive arrangements.
Finance/restructuring and insolvency
- acting for borrowers and lenders on debt facilities/bond issues/CP programmes (including drafting and negotiating loan agreements, terms and conditions of bonds, offering circulars, programme documents etc).
- acting for issuers and arrangers on a variety of securitisation transactions and related restructurings
- advising UK and overseas banks and UK corporates on the structuring and execution of various UK and cross-border structured finance products and leasing transactions
- advising UK corporates in relation to a number of transactions and financing structures involving pub and other property portfolios
- advising generally in relation to restructuring and insolvency issues
Recent work
Most recently we have advised:
- GFI Group, Inc. on the acquisition of The Kyte Group Limited and Kyte Capital Management Limited
- City of London Group Plc’s on various transactions and investments
- the sellers of Enigma Travel Group, a ski tour operator, on their sale to Hotelplan Ltd. Hotelplan, which also owns Inghams Travel, is a subsidiary of Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund, a large Swiss-based retailer
- Earthscan Limited, the world’s leading publisher on sustainable development, environmental technology and climate change, on the sale of its entire issued share capital to Informa Group plc
- Tennants Consolidated Ltd, a leading UK privately held chemical manufacturing and distribution group, on its acquisition of the entire issued share capital of Tessenderlo Fine Chemicals Ltd from the Belgium-based Tessenderlo Group
- German automotive parts manufacturer febi bilstein on its acquisition of Automotive Distributors Ltd, the UK company behind the Blue Print brand of aftermarket parts
- Syncapse Corp. on the acquisition of the entire issued share capital of Nudge Social Media Limited
- long-standing client Trapeze Group on its acquisition of Kizoom Software Limited from Kizoom Limited (formerly Cityspace), a subsidiary of LMS Capital
- a manager of the London office of a US based hedge fund in relation to his partnership and remuneration arrangements
- a number of public and private companies on employee share arrangements
- several private companies in respect of EMI option awards
- a private company in respect of the issuing by it of EIS shares to qualifying investors
