Sitting within the wider corporate and finance team, Irwin Mitchell’s tax practice has extensive experience in drafting tax covenants and warranties, alongside advising clients on the tax aspects of major acquisitions. Jennie Newton is a stamp taxes expert, consistently structuring transactions. James Arnold is knowledgeable on employee share schemes, and Eve Williams is also noted as key.
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‘The team are both responsive and practical, working alongside them on transactions is always straightforward and they deliver great output.’
Key clients
- Phenna Group Holdings
- Praxis
- Birmingham Sports Holdings Limited
- Reconomy
- ThreeTwoFour
- Top Tubes Ltd
- BK Plus
- National chain of supermarkets
- High net worth individual
- Investment firm
- Large national housebuilder
- Vulcain Engineering
Work highlights
- Supported our national corporate team on the transactional tax aspects of Phenna Group’s acquisition of Trident Water Solutions, drafting and negotiating tax covenants, warranties, other tax provisions and handling the stamp duty submission to HMRC.
- Advised in relation to tax aspects of the investment by Shelby Companies Limited in Birmingham City Football Club and Birmingham City Women’s Football Club, including cross-border aspects.
- Advised Reconomy on the transactional tax aspects of their acquisition of UK Waste Solutions Limited (a.k.a. Novati), including the drafting and negotiating of the tax covenant, warranties and other protections for the client in the SPA, managing the process of various managers exercising tax-advantaged EMI share options as part of the transaction to ensure that no tax liabilities arose, and calculating and dealing with the stamp duty submission for HMRC.