Brian Slater
Head of Commercial Tax: Corporate & Tax
- Company acquisitions, disposals, mergers and reconstruction
- Management buy out and buy in of companies
- Transaction planning
- Employee share incentives, including all forms of share option schemes and Employee Benefit Trusts
- Value Added Tax, with particular reference to commercial property and property development
- Stamp duty and stamp duty land tax on commercial and property transactions
- Offshore commercial structures
- Negotiation and settlement of serious Revenue and Customs investigations (principally involving Special Civil Investigations including investigations into offshore accounts), particularly with a view to avoiding prosecution
Recent Work
- Advising AIM listed Jelf Group plc on tax issues on key corporate acquisitions
- Tax advice on the sale of a telecoms company and various other companies
- Tax advice on the restructuring of the corporate interests of The Britten-Pears Foundation
- Tax advice on a multi-currency facility for a corporate acquisition by an AIM listed client
- Tax advice on the acquisition of a large former factory site for redevelopment as distribution and warehousing centre and subsequent disposal of a large part of the site to an industrial developer
- Tax advice on the acquisition of a new build for a film processing plant at Pinewood Studios
- Advising a well known entertainer on tax residence issues in the United Kingdom
- Tax advice to an investment fund client on a proposed redevelopment with a Registered Social Landlord of 250 residential flats at a leisure scheme in North West London and the building of a new multi-storey car park
Recent Articles/Speaking Engagements
Random Fact
Brian is a petrol head following motor sport avidly, particularly Formula 1.