Property Tax Experience
The Crown Estate Commissioners
Advice in connection with the £56 million acquisition of the Westgate Shopping Centre in Oxford, focusing in particular on the VAT (in particular TOGC) and SDLT issues.
Providing SDLT and VAT advice on a £200 million redevelopment of properties in London.
RWE NPower
Advice in connection with the £25.5 million acquisition of a new headquarters building in the north of England, focusing on SDLT mitigation and capture of capital allowances.
Opco/Propco structuring
Advice to an overseas investor on the most appropriate structure for investing in a UK hotel development involving Opco/Propco structuring, including consideration of shariah finance issues.
Property investment fund
Tax opinion for property investment fund acquiring properties for £300m.
Acquisition of property SPV
Advising on the acquisition of a property SPV owning a substantial investment property, and tax advice on managing tax risk associated with the pre-transaction "strip out" of assets which were not to be sold into the vendor group.
Tax advice on redevelopment
Tax advice relating a redevelopment in Bath carried out as a joint venture, including funding and refinancing issues.
Broadlands Land Trust
Advising trustees on a land-pooling arrangement.
SDLT advice regarding a biomass plant
Providing SDLT advice in respect of the construction of a biomass plant which affected various pieces of adjoining land and cross rights of way.
Hotel acquisition
Acting on the acquisition of a number of hotels from a group in administration, including advice on the transfer of a going concern rules, VAT grouping and capital allowances.
SDLT and VAT
SDLT and VAT advice in relation to the development of a large shopping centre including the surrender and re-grant of an existing lease and the carrying out of various development works.
Zero-rating VAT advice
Providing VAT advice in respect of the extent to which zero rating is available in the context of a reconstruction where the facade of an original property is retained but the requirement for its retention is implicit rather than explicit in the related planning permissions.