Gary Barnett

Corporate Tax.

Gary is a senior professional support lawyer in the corporate tax group. Before becoming a professional support lawyer, he qualified at another major international law firm as a transactional lawyer, advising on a wide range of corporate tax and VAT matters, with a particular emphasis on M&A transactions. Gary became a professional support lawyer at Simmons & Simmons in 1996 and has been responsible for developing the knowledge management strategy for the London corporate tax group, whilst providing support to the international tax teams across Simmons & Simmons. He has also been instrumental in developing means to use tax know how in a marketing context and is responsible for the content of the group’s knowledge products. Gary has written extensively on a wide range of tax topics and has previously contributed VAT commentary for De Voil Indirect Tax Service.