Shoosmiths LLP

Marie advises on all areas provided by Shoosmiths' national Tax team, namely employee share schemes, real estate tax, corporate tax, employment tax and EIS/VCT relief.

Marie has recently been involved in:

• various due diligence tasks, involving the review of a large number of share options to ensure compliance with the relevant share scheme legislation;
• analysing and assessing the availability of stamp duty group relief for corporate clients;
• dealing with complex SDLT, LTT and LBTT queries; and
• advising on the tax elements of termination payments, specifically in regard to PILONs and PENP, and recently advised a PLC of the tax implications of a settlement involving shares provided under a US share scheme.

Marie joined Shoosmiths in 2007 and, prior to commencing her training contract in 2018, worked as a Post Completion Clerk dealing with post completion real estate requirements for major retail and investment clients.