Neil is a corporate tax partner with general experience in M&A work and with particular experience in all tax aspects of land and property transactions including construction and PFI projects, refurbishments and redevelopments, acquisitions and disposals and inward investment structures.
He has a special interest in indirect taxes such as VAT, SDLT, SDRT and the climate change levy. His practice also includes expertise in corporate mergers, acquisitions and reorganisations.
Credentials:
- Tata Consultancy Services India's largest information technology company, on the completion of a 12 year Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) contract worth £600 million
- Liberty Property Trust in connection with the structured disposal of a £125 million portfolio of 19 office buildings via a new joint venture with Doughty Hanson & Co Real Estate
- Consensus Business, the property company owed by Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, on a £366 million sale and leaseback joint venture with Tesco
- Standard Life on tax issues relating to their retail park and shopping centre funds with a value of £2.2 billion
- a consortium of investors on the on €200 million acquisition of the Bewag Building in Berlin
- The Mercers Company on the tax aspects of the establishment of a joint venture with Shaftesbury to redevelop a key part of London's West End a deal worth almost £160 million
- RBS Structured Property Finance on a £600 million financing and related equity participation
- Apache Corporation on the purchase of the Forties Oil Field from BP
Accolades
"a little bit like a human Swiss army knife – he understands all the different types of taxes and cuts through all the issues."
Chambers 2005
"you know you’ll get the deal done if he is on the other side”
Chambers 2005