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David Scott

David Scott

Work Department

Tax Private client Charity and Philanthropy 

Position

David provides personal and corporate tax advice to the full range of the firm’s clients and his core practice involves tax advice for entrepreneurs and their businesses.

He has considerable experience advising on share and business acquisitions and disposals and expertise in all aspects of share incentive arrangements, ranging from the adoption of employee share schemes to highly tailored share-based arrangements for senior management and the use of employee benefit trusts. He also advises on the tax aspects of fundraising through EIS and SEIS for both investors and investee companies.

As the Head of the Charities and Philanthropy Group, he advises not-for-profit organisations and individual philanthropists on all charity law issues, including commercial arrangements and corporate governance issues, as well on specific charity tax issues.

Career

Trained Freshfields; qualified 2000; Partner Harbottle & Lewis LLP 2011

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