Beth Leggate Senior Associate

Senior Associate

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Beth advises on a wide range of UK and cross-border tax matters, with a focus on the tax aspects of M&A transactions and investment management.

Beth specialises in advising on the tax aspects of private and public M&A transactions and related reorganisations.

Beth’s work also involves the establishment and structuring of private equity, credit and other private investment funds and providing advice to investment fund managers on their deal and investment structuring.

Beth is a Chartered Tax Adviser and a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation.

Expertise

Tax

Recent work

Hayfin Capital

Advising Hayfin Capital on a range of fund tax matters.

Cross Ocean Partners

Advising Cross Ocean partners on various house and fund tax matters.

abrdn

Advising long-term client abrdn on the sale of its European-headquartered Private Equity business (with £7.5bn assets under management) to Patria Investments.

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In depth

The qualifying private placement exemption in practice

Jeremy Moncrieff, Beth Leggate 21 Feb 2023

The qualifying private placement exemption, introduced in 2016, was intended to simplify lending into the UK from treaty jurisdictions, by removing some of the usual withholding...