Tax issues on stake sales and investment into managers: structuring, pitfalls and steps to take now
About
Nigel leads our environmental practice and specialises in environmental law.
He has a broad range of experience advising corporate, commercial real estate and energy and infrastructure clients on the environmental aspects of transactions, regulatory issues and disputes.
Experience
- Advising household-name clients on negotiating the environmental risks in corporate and M&A transactions in the heavy industrials and other manufacturing sectors, including numerous FTSE 100 companies and international conglomerates on a variety of £bn+ acquisitions and disposals.
- Advising our leading investment funds clients and their portfolio companies, on a wide mix of transactions – for example, recently, in relation to the UK holiday parks sector, including the corporate sales of Parkdean Resorts and Park Holidays.
- Acting for our major commercial real estate clients, for example Legal & General, Stanhope and Berkeley Homes, on high profile investments in and developments of various brownfield sites in and around London and rest of the UK (former industrial sites, gasworks, etc.).
- Advising on significant disputes, including involving large infrastructure projects, for example acting as the instructing solicitor on behalf of a major UK utility at a public inquiry dealing with its test case permit appeals relating to a disputed £bn+ wastewater improvement works programme.
- Long-standing advisor to industrial site operators, commercial property managers, institutional investors and lenders and private landowners in relation to all relevant areas, for example contaminated land risk, climate change and energy efficiency regulation, renewable fuels, environmental and operational permitting, waste management and producer responsibility laws.