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Parisi Tax LLP

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Tax boutique Parisi Tax LLP is highlighted for its ‘excellent understanding of corporate tax’, combining ’commercial knowledge’ with ‘client communication skills’ to offer specialist tax advice to private companies, business owners and management teams. The firm has experience in M&A, reorganisations, property tax, employee share incentives and private equity deals. Lisa Stevenson, founder of the firm, co-leads the practice with Becky Rees. Stevenson is recognised for her management team tax planning and engagement with significant transactions, and works closely with corporate finance companies, while Rees has broad tax experience including in share incentive planning and M&A. Jon Robinson, based in Leeds, is ’technically excellent’ and ‘delivers prompt, commercially focused tax advice’.

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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘Excellent understanding of Corporate Tax law, good commercial knowledge, good client communication skills.’

  • ‘The whole Parisi team are not only technically excellent, they are super responsive, pragmatic and provide their advice in simple clear language. We rely on Parisi to provide all of our legal tax support and they never let us down.’

  • ‘Lisa Stevenson and Jon Robinson are the two key individuals I work with but others in the team slot in seamlessly. The whole Parisi Team are simply an extension of our team and never fail to deliver.’

  • ‘Excellent service of focused property tax advice.’

  • ‘Jon Robinson is responsive, technically excellent and delivers prompt and commercially focused tax advice.’

  • ‘Competitive pricing. Excellent understanding of Coporate Tax, proactive, provide pragmatic advice.’

Key clients

  • Minor Figures Limited
  • Actica Holdings
  • Demma Group Limited
  • Activate Solutions Group Limited
  • Prism Healthcare
  • Inspired Thinking Group Holdings Limited
  • Mam Tor Productions Limited
  • Threads Styling Limited
  • JoJo Maman Bébé Limited
  • Somit Solutions Limited

Work highlights

  • Acted for two individuals in the sale of Actica Holdings to a sovereign capital-backed new company.
  • Advised Mam Tor Productions and its shareholders on the tax aspects of its sale to Banijay.
  • Advised the founder and CEO on the sale of her majority stake (as part of a sale of 100% of the share capital) in leading retailer JoJo Maman Bébé.

Lawyers

Leading individuals

Becky Rees

Parisi Tax LLP

Becky Rees is a partner in Parisi Tax LLP and has a thriving practice acting for law firms and accountancy firms (including KPMG) and direct clients who are mostly entrepreneurs, management teams and private companies.  Becky offers creative but practical solutions to complex tax issues. She advises on all aspects of corporate transactions including advising management teams on private equity transactions. She also advises on employee share incentive arrangements. A large part of her practice relates to EIS and SEIS for exciting new businesses and growing companies

Lisa Stevenson

Parisi Tax LLP

Lisa is the founding partner of Parisi Tax and deals with  tax issues for entrepreneurs, private companies and management teams including advice on company sales and acquisitions, EIS, private equity transactions, reorganisations and employee incentives.

Next Generation Partners

Jon Robinson

Parisi Tax LLP

Jon is a Legal Director in the Parisi Tax team.He specialises in the taxation of companies and their shareholders, and property tax matters.In his career, Jon has handled corporate transactions ranging from acting for PLCs on £250m+ sales and purchases to advising individuals and management teams on sales and buyouts. He is highly experienced in private equity transactions and company reorganisations, and also advises on share incentives, fundraisings and demergers.On property taxation matters Jon has a particular focus on SDLT and VAT, and has advised on complex student accommodation and care home sector projects. His practice covers the full range of investment and development work and property SPV transactions.He also advises regularly on employment tax matters.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Lisa Stevenson, Becky Rees

Other key lawyers

Jon Robinson