Clare Smith

Summary

Clare is an experienced corporate tax lawyer who has substantial and diverse experience of tax maters gained both with law and accountancy practices.
Her practice focuses on UK taxation, including the interaction of UK and foreign taxes.

Clare handles all areas of corporate taxation, both structural and transactional, and the associated personal tax issues together with tax efficient incentive schemes and VAT.

Specialist tax lawyer Clare Smith provides full-service support on transaction work, tax structuring schemes and employee equity incentive plans.

Specialisms

With over 20 years' legal experience, Clare has developed particular expertise in the following sectors:

• Automotive - advising on significant divestures and joint ventures
• Consumer/industrial products - reviewing large corporate structures to ensure the group holding structure is tax efficient
• Property - advising on and implementing tax efficient holding structures for commercial and residential property
• Retail - advising on significant divestures and tax efficient exits