Catherine Hill Senior solicitor

Senior solicitor
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Catherine advises on a broad range of corporate tax matters including private equity M&A and UK and cross-border group structuring.

Catherine specialises in advising the management teams of private equity backed companies on all aspects of their equity incentive arrangements.

She also advises:

  • buyers and sellers on the tax aspects of corporate transactions (in particular, private equity transactions); and
  • corporate groups on their structuring and strategic tax planning.

Catherine is a Chartered Tax Adviser and is a member of HMRC’s stamp taxes working group.

Expertise

Recent work

Visa Inc.

Advising Visa Inc. on its acquisition of Visa Europe for €21.2bn and its subsequent group restructuring.

Simplify Digital Limited

Advising the shareholders of Simplify Digital Limited, the UK’s largest broadband, TV and home phone switching business, on its sale to Dixons Carphone.

Realstar Group

Advising Realstar Group on the financing and acquisition of Ravenscourt House, a 234-bedroom student accommodation block in Hammersmith.

Derwent London

Advising Derwent London on its £165m sale of The Copyright Building, 30 Berners Street, W1.

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Lockdown 3: tax implications of prolonged business interruption

Catherine Hill 22 Jan 2021
Many businesses have had no choice but to reduce operations, or cease them entirely, at various points during the Covid-19 pandemic. In particular, lockdown 3 has, once again,...
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The Multilateral Instrument: A timetable

Ashley Greenbank, Catherine Hill 03 Aug 2018
The Multilateral Instrument (MLI) is on course to amend many of the UK’s double taxation treaties from later this year.
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