Heather Rowlands
Simmons & SimmonsSimmons & Simmons has core strength advising clients in the financial services, asset management, and environmental sectors, and benefit from the firm's broader full service offering. Heather Rowlands leads the team, and is praised by clients for her 'encyclopaedic knowledge of the trickiest elements of tax law'. Rowlands is dual qualified as a solicitor and Chartered Tax Adviser, and has a practice which includes offshore litigation and indirect tax. 'Star in the making' Craig Kirkham-Wilson covers both civil and criminal tax disputes, and is qualified as a solicitor advocate.
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Testimonials
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‘This is one of the most exceptional teams you will come across, in terms of work ethic, intellectual firepower, and efficiency.’
‘Heather Rowlands has an endless capacity for hard work, and nobody is more on top of the details of a complex case than her. Craig Kirkham-Wilson is a star in the making - A1 intellectually, and a master tactician in complex cases.’
‘An extremely well-resourced, hard-working and diligent team.’
‘Heather Rowlands - has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the trickiest elements of tax law.'
- 'Craig Kirkham-Wilson is an absolute pleasure to work with. Hard-working, diligent and with a bright future ahead of him.’
‘Fantastic tax litigation team - very few firms can boast the depth and breadth of the team and the work that they do.’
‘Heather Rowlands is an outstanding technician. Excellent tax lawyer - attention to detail and fantastic judgement. Very intelligent indeed.'
‘A extremely effective team that can effectively manage the highest profile tax disputes with HMRC as well as giving highly commercial advice to clients.’
Key clients
- Willis Towers Watson
- Christopher Rokos (principal of Rokos Capital Management)
- Augean Limited
- Davidson Kempner Capital Management
- The Saint-Gobain group
- UBS
- RNIB
Work highlights
- Acted for Christopher Rokos, a prominent hedge-fund manager, in a professional negligence claim against a Big 4 accountancy firm and a US law firm.
- Acting for Augean, a leading environmental services business, in ‘test case’ appeals relating to the landfill tax liability of waste from numerous industrial processes.
- Acting for Burlington Loan Management DAC in a multi-million pound tax treaty dispute arising out of the $7billion Lehman Brothers International (Europe) administration surplus.
Lawyers
Next Generation Partners
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Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Heather Rowlands