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Mishcon de Reya

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Tel:
Work 020 7440 7000
Fax:
Fax 020 7404 5982
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37954 KINGSWAY
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www.mishcon.com
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Belinda Bridgen

Tel:
Work +44 20 7440 7432
Email:
Mishcon de Reya

Work Department

Tax.

Position

Belinda is a corporate tax specialist with over 30 years’ experience. Her expertise covers all aspects of real estate tax (planning for direct taxes, VAT and SDLT; structuring property investment funds) and the tax implications of mergers and acquisitions, international structuring, company restructuring, financing and private equity funds. Throughout her career she has acted for a wide range of public and private companies and financial institutions (eg banks and funds). Recent successful examples include advising an offshore property fund on its acquisition of a £150m property portfolio, an online gaming company on corporate restructuring and jurisdiction, and an offshore unit trust’s acquisition of a £70m property portfolio. Belinda is recommended in ‘PLC Which Lawyer’.

Career

Qualified accountant 1978; Coopers & Lybrand 1978-96, becoming a partner in 1986; moved into law as head of tax at DLA (now DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary LLP) 1996; corporate tax director Mishcon de Reya 2004.

Member

Institute of Chartered Accountants; International Fiscal Association.

Practice Areas

Private equity; Tax - corporate; Tax - VAT, C&E

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