Jeremy Moncrieff Partner

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Jeremy advises on a broad range of tax and structuring matters with a particular focus on public and private M&A transactions and related reorganisations.

Jeremy has extensive experience advising companies, partnerships and individuals on the tax aspects of domestic and cross-border M&A transactions.

Jeremy’s specialisms include advising on complex M&A, including M&A in the financial services sector and M&A involving LLPs and partnerships.

Alongside his M&A work, Jeremy advises on IPOs, corporate reorganisations and restructurings. He also advises corporate groups (including REITs) on their corporate tax planning.

Jeremy is a member of the international tax sub-committee of the Law Society of England & Wales and contributes to consultations with HM Revenue & Customs and HM Treasury on developments in tax legislation.

Expertise

Recent work

XPO Logistics

Advising NYSE listed transportation and supply chain company XPO Logistics on the acquisition of certain UK contract logistics operations from Swiss logistics business Kuehne + Nagel International AG.

L3Harris Technologies

Advising L3Harris Technologies on the sale of its airport security and automation business for $1bn to Leidos.

Fleming Family & Partners

Advising Fleming Family & Partners on its merger with Stonehage to create the largest independent multi-family office in the EMEA region.

Smith & Williamson

Advising Smith & Williamson on its proposed combination with the Tilney Group to create the UKs leading integrated wealth management and professional services group with over £45bn assets under management and £500m of revenues.

Minova Insurance Holdings Limited

Advising Minova Insurance Holdings Limited on the sale of its broking business (the BMS group) to British Columbia Investment Management Corporation and Preservation Capital Partners.

Arcmont Asset Management Limited

Advising the private debt team of BlueBay Asset Management on their spinout to form Arcmont Asset Management Limited

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Targeted changes to UK REITs for asset holding companies

Jeremy Moncrieff, Kirsten Prichard Jones, Rhiannon Kinghall Were 26 Feb 2021
The government is looking to make targeted changes to the UK REITs regime to enable it to better serve as an asset holding company (AHC) vehicle for real estate investment.
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Tax covenants: lessons from the Court of Appeal

Jeremy Moncrieff, Maudie Leach 05 Aug 2019
In Minera Las Bambas and another v Glencore Queensland and others [2019] EWCA Civ 972, the Court of Appeal addressed a number of points on the interpretation of a tax covenant...
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Carried-forward losses: complexities arising from the ‘simplification’ exercise

Ashley Greenbank, Jeremy Moncrieff 25 Apr 2018
In the attached article which was first published in the British Tax Review, Ashley Greenbank and Jeremy Moncrieff discuss the recent changes to the carried-forward losses regime...
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