Taxation Expert
Worldwide
Robert has over 35 years experience in UK tax law. Fifteen of these as an equity partner in Simmons & Simmons corporate tax group in London, specialising in helping foreign investors set up in the UK. Once established, Robert helped them structure their UK and European development, including debt equity ratio for UK holding entity and UK transfer pricing compliance. Robert was also link partner between Simmons & Simmons’ private client group and its corporate tax practice. Robert often acted as an outsourced UK head of legal, co-ordinating tax advice received and its implementation.
Since May 2005 Robert has been a solicitor sole practitioner operating only in the area of UK tax and estate planning law. Focus is on the structuring of corporate transactions. On the private client side, he does a lot of estate planning including drafting wills and trusts. Since the 2008 changes to remittance rules Robert has specialised in the UK tax issues faced by non domiciliaries when becoming UK tax resident. In particular Robert provides advice on remittance basis planning, with specific expertise in tax and and criminal tax.
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