Ashurst has a comprehensive and fully integrated international tax
practice comprising partners who are recognised experts and
experienced practitioners. We provide a range of direct and
indirect tax advice to a wide variety of clients across a range of
industries. This includes advice on the structuring and execution
of transactions and strategic tax planning. By being involved in
transactions at an early stage, we play an important role in
structuring the transaction and assisting our clients to minimise
the risk of unanticipated exposures and helping them to maximise
outcomes.
Many of our tax professionals have specific and leading edge
practices in finance, private equity, transfer
pricing and cross border planning, investment funds, real estate
taxation and dispute
resolution. Many are also qualified accountants. Through our
multi-disciplinary expertise, our advice is up to the minute, clear
and practical and delivered by experts. We make sure that we
understand our client's business and the wider implications of each
transaction. In that way, not only do we advise our clients on what
is possible, we advise them on what is best.
We provide a full range of tax legal services including:
- transactions including disposals, acquisitions and joint ventures
- tax planning including: inward and outward investment, holding and
financing structures and group reorganisations
- investigations and litigation
- indirect tax (VAT, GST, human resources taxes and stamp duty)
- the creation of all forms of collective investment vehicles
- transfer pricing
- structured financial products including: securitisation and
CDOs
remuneration planning - corporate income tax (including mergers and acquisitions, capital
raisings, corporate reorganisations, employee share and option
schemes, capital gains tax and general tax issues)
- cross-border financing
- international tax law (including thin capitalisation, foreign
trusts, CFC/FIF issues, foreign tax credits and double tax
agreements)
- structured, project and asset finance (including property trusts
and other managed investment schemes)
- revenue authorities investigations and dispute resolution
- due diligence exercises
- prudential reviews