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Daniel Kennedy
Work Department
Corporate
Position
Daniel is a partner in the firm’s Tax department and heads up the firm’s real estate tax practice.
Daniel has acted for a broad range of real estate clients including institutional investors, private equity funds, sovereign wealth funds, REITs, developers, occupiers, high net worth individuals, charities and housing associations. He has therefore received exposure to all areas of the UK commercial and residential real estate markets. He has particular expertise in advising on the acquisition and development of student accommodation and care homes, having acted on some of the largest transactions in these sectors in the last few years.
Daniel also has considerable experience in providing transactional corporate tax advice, including in relation to M&A, reorganisations, demergers, MBOs and other corporate transactions. In addition, Daniel has regularly advised on personal and employment tax matters (e.g. management taxation, termination payments) and charity tax issues (e.g. VAT recovery and application of tax reliefs).
Career
Daniel trained at Nabarro and progressed to the role of Senior Associate. He subsequently moved to Trowers & Hamlins as a Senior Associate before joining the Real Estate Deals team at PwC LLP as a Senior Manager. He joined Shoosmiths LLP in 2016
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
Considered ‘go-to specialists for any venture capital trust or enterprise investment scheme advice’, Shoosmiths LLP’s tax team in Thames Valley offers ‘unparalleled market knowledge‘. The ‘excellent’ Tom Wilde heads up the department, and is also well versed in one-off business transactions, as well as ongoing compliance issues. The department’s dedicated real estate tax practice is led by Daniel Kennedy and is equipped to handle tax advisory work in relation to real estate acquisitions and disposals, as well as work relating to the development of commercial and residential properties. Kennedy is also experienced in providing transactional corporate tax advice.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Hampshire
- Real estate > Commercial property: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Real estate > Commercial property: Hampshire
- Real estate > Commercial property: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Hampshire
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Employment > Employment: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Employment > Employment: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Real estate > Environment and planning
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Employment > Health and safety
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Employment > Pensions
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx