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.

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.

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. 

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.

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. 

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.