Kieran is a Solicitor in the Corporate team.
He advises businesses and individuals on the tax aspects of corporate transactions (including real estate tax, reorganisations and M&A).
Recent examples of how Kieran has helped clients include:
- advising clients on the stamp taxes implications of ending “rest on contract” transaction structures in respect of UK property portfolios and, subsequently, notifying HMRC of the crystallisation and quantum of tax charges;
- preparing complex ad valorem stamp duty relief applications in multifaceted corporate transactions;
- assisting on the sale of a controlling stake in a company to an Employee Ownership Trust (securing capital gains tax relief for the selling shareholders); and
- providing bespoke stamp duty land tax structuring advice in a variety of contexts (encompassing intra-group property transfers, “mixed-use” property purchases and the movement of partnership property.