Shepherd and Wedderburn’s Corporate Tax team advises clients at every stage of their transactions, seeking to unlock value wherever possible. Our broad highly commercial tax practice enables us to advise on just about any type of tax situation affecting corporates, whether in relation to direct or indirect taxes.

Our tax advice covers areas such as:

• UK and international tax planning and structuring
  
• Mergers & acquisitions advisory work
  
• UK and international listed company taxation and tax planning
• Structured real estate finance
  
• Stamp duty and SDLT mitigation structures
• VAT and outsourcing of all kinds
• Employee-related taxation
  
• Funds and collective investment scheme structuring
  

We communicate complex taxation concepts in a comprehensible way and present a clear assessment of issues and our proposals for resolving them. In so doing, we work closely with our commercial colleagues to present a streamlined, integrated service. We recognise the importance of documentation to the success of tax structuring in the current tax environment and we frequently assume a project management function in highly structured mitigation tax planning transactions to ensure the best possible outcome. For these reasons we have developed a strong reputation in the market for our corporate tax services.

Following is a selection of our clients:

• Aberdeen Asset Management
• Alliance Trust
• Ancient Mariner Property
• Artemis Investment Management
• British Land
• Cairn Energy
• Cairn India
• Dunedin Property
• Fidelity Investment Management
• Glasgow City Council
• Kilmartin Property
• Numis Securities
• Scarborough Properties
• Scottish and Newcastle
• Teesland
• The Miller Group
• Trinity Mirror
• Valad Group of companies
• Vedanta Resources PLC