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Lawrence Graham LLP

4 MORE LONDON RIVERSIDE, LONDON, SE1 2AU, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 020 7379 0000
Fax:
Fax 020 7379 6854
DX:
39 LONDON/CHANCERY LN
Web:
www.lg-legal.com
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Michael Murphy

Tel:
Work +44 20 7759 6683
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Lawrence Graham LLP

Work Department

Corporate tax.

Position

Corporate tax partner whose principal areas of practice include mergers and acquisitions, flotations, private equity and venture capital, employee remuneration and investment funds. His practice also covers succession and exit planning for owner managed businesses as well as property tax and finance including issues relating to VAT and SDLT.

Career

Trained Fox & Gibbons; qualified 1987; assistant solicitor Slaughter and May 1987-93; assistant solicitor Lawrence Graham LLP 1993-96; partner Lawrence Graham LLP 1996; author of chapter on Attracting Business Finance in ‘Tolley’s Tax on Transactions’; contributes to various publications.

Member

Inland Revenue CGT liaison group; Law Society CGT sub-committee; Enterprise Investment Scheme Association.

Education

Stonyhurst College, Lancashire; Southampton University (1984 LLB); College of Law, Chester.

Leisure

Family, most sports, travel.

Practice Areas

Tax - corporate

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Legal Developments by:
Lawrence Graham LLP

  • VAT: transfer of going concern

    The VAT tribunal has upheld HMRC's assessment that the sale of a restaurant business was not a transfer of a going concern (TOGC) because the buyer did not carry on the same kind of business as the seller after the transfer.
    - LG LLP

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