Tax has a crucial role in most commercial decision-making. It can often mean the difference between a business or project failing or being a success.
We advise on the tax issues that affect businesses, their owners and the transactions that they undertake and how transactions might be structured more tax-efficiently.
Our team of corporate tax specialists work across all of our sectors. Clients range from SME founders and shareholders to multi-national groups and include manufacturers, service providers, retailers and other corporate clients, venture capital trusts, energy companies, property investors and developers, and public authorities.
We advise on a wide range of tax matters including:
Company and business asset sales and purchases
Property acquisitions and disposals
Asset finance arrangements
Structuring and negotiation of transactions in energy (both renewable and oil & gas)
Private equity
Corporate re-organisations and other restructurings
Employee share incentive arrangements and other forms of employee remuneration.
We work hard to provide you with the most practical, sustainable and tailored solutions to tax concerns. Regularly called upon to work in partnership with our clients' other advisers, it matters to us that you get the best tax advice.
Is your focus on domestic markets or international growth? Does your business thrive in the online world or is it all about bricks-and-mortar? Whatever you do, there’s no getting away from the fact that tax affairs are critical to the smooth running of every business.
It’s not just about being aware of UK corporate tax law; you need practical guidance on corporate tax planning strategies and governance so your business can thrive.
Whether you’re a tech startup or steering a large-scale business, you’ll be looking for corporate tax advice. Our corporate tax team – seasoned lawyers and tax experts with time-tested wisdom – stands ready to guide you.
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Exploring the ins and outs of the Corporation Tax Act? Our expertise spans various sectors and specialisms, with a particular emphasis in private equity, real estate, tech, energy, and financial services.
Corporate tax advice is our forte, including corporate tax structure and transactional work – both at home and abroad. Working on cross-border practice deals in key jurisdictions, such as US, Germany, France, and the Nordic region, our team is ideally placed to advise on structuring issues with overseas investors on the acquisitions and disposals of UK businesses.
If you’re operating in the energy sector, we’ve got you covered. Our energy team is a specialist group who guide both renewable pioneers and oil and gas providers towards success – the likes of UK-based renewable energy developers such as RES and Vattenfall UK are on our client roster.
We’ve also worked closely with HM Treasury on decommissioning matters. But that’s not all – our expertise also reaches across borders, including large offshore wind development projects for a German energy investment client and Norwegian operators in the North Sea.
When it comes to our private equity experience, we handle transaction, incentive and structural work for investors and portfolio companies.
In need of a corporate tax lawyer? Look no further.
At Womble Bond Dickinson we have an exceptional team of talented lawyers and business professionals who can offer guidance and find the solutions right for your business. We have both broad and niche expertise across all our UK and US offices.
EnAppSys Limited (and its shareholders in the European energy market) on its sale to Montel AS
Cleveland Containers Limited on its sale to LDC
UK Land Estates Limited on an investment by a Sovereign Wealth Fund
Energie Baden-Württemberg AG (EnBW) on the UK and cross-border tax implications of a JV structure with BP on large-scale offshore wind farm projects in the Irish Sea
Sellers of Blueback Global, where the $50m transaction involved multiple jurisdictions and tax planning factoring into the deal value
Lloyds Development Capital Limited (LDC) on several investments and bolt-on acquisitions, including into Clerksroom.
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"The team worked through a very long and drawn-out process and managed to get us out the other side of it with our sanity and our interest protected."
Chambers and Partners 2024
“The firm is customer focused, has real knowledge of the business and our sector and is extremely hard working as well as diligent. A true partner of our business.”
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