Clare Smith
Legal DirectorClare Smith is a legal director within the corporate team, based in the firm's Preston office.
Clare is an experienced corporate tax lawyer who has substantial and diverse experience of tax matters gained both with law and accountancy practices.
She provides clients with full-service support on transaction work, tax structuring schemes and employee equity incentive plans, primarily focusing 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.
Experience
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
Affiliations
- Member of the Law Society of England and Wales
- Member of the New York State Bar
- Member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation
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