Businesses contemplating acquisitions, disposals or a reorganisation, need advice that is timely, proactive, innovative, commercial and efficient. Our Tax Services team will work with you in developing a tax strategy to support your overall business strategy. The aim is over the whole investment cycle:

• to minimise taxes on acquisition;
• minimise taxes on profits arising and extracted during the lifetime of the investment;
• and to minimise taxes on an exit.

This would include advice relating to:

• • structuring corporate acquisitions and taking advantage of the rules that allow companies to obtain tax relief on the costs of acquiring intangible assets (including intellectual property and goodwill)
  • sheltering tax on share and asset sales including the substantial shareholdings relief that allows trading companies to sell certain shareholdings in other companies free of UK tax
  • maximising tax relief for the costs of raising and servicing finance
  • minimising transaction costs for Stamp Duty and VAT.