Karl Pocock > Birketts LLP > Norwich, England > Lawyer Profile
Birketts LLP Offices
KINGFISHER HOUSE
1 GILDERS WAY
NORWICH
NR3 1UB
England
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Karl Pocock
Work Department
Corporate Tax
Position
Partner – Head of Corporate Tax
Career
Karl is a Partner and Head of Corporate Tax. He qualified as a Solicitor in September 2002 and joined Birketts in July 2014. He specialises in business taxation and advises a wide range of clients including companies, entrepreneurs and not for profit organisations in relation to their tax affairs. He enjoys the variety that his role brings: whether this variety derives from the tax issue in question, the nature of the transaction itself or the client he is acting for. In particular, Karl regularly advises on mergers and acquisitions and has been involved in numerous transactions over the years, including many high value deals whilst at Birketts. He also advises companies in relation to reconstructions and demergers and has an underlying aim to achieve his clients’ commercial goals in the most cost-effective and straightforward manner as possible. Karl has a strong track record of advising both employers and employees in relation to tax issues that arise from employment or directorships including, by way of example, the taxation of termination payments and queries relating to employment related securities.
Karl is a member of the firm’s Charities Team and the Public Sector Team, as well as the Strategic Land Team.
Lawyer Rankings
East Anglia > Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
(Leading individuals)Birketts LLP has a specialist corporate tax practice that is ‘fast in response, concise and up to the point in explanation, and conscious of saving clients costs‘. The firm is known for its work on structuring and transactional tax matters, strategic land development, employee incentives, employee ownership trusts, SEED and EIS investment schemes. It is also a key tax adviser to the region’s farming community. In Norwich, head of corporate tax Karl Pocock (who is ‘ superb, attentive and personable‘) and associate Ben Clarke (who is ‘ a delight to work with‘) are the main contacts. They advised Notcutts Garden Centres on the tax aspects of its sale and purchase agreement as part of its expansion in Cambridgeshire. In Ipswich, head of employee incentives Lisa Hayward is highly recommended.
Lawyer Rankings
- Corporate tax East Anglia > Corporate and commercial
- Leading individuals East Anglia > Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Cambridge
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: elsewhere in East Anglia
- Real estate > Commercial property: Cambridge
- Real estate > Commercial property: elsewhere in East Anglia
- Real estate > Commercial property: Norwich
- Real estate > Construction
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Cambridge
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: elsewhere in East Anglia
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Norwich
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Employment > Employment
- Private client > Family
- Crime, fraud and licensing > General crime and fraud
- Employment > Health and safety
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Licensing
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Cambridge
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: elsewhere in East Anglia
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Norwich
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Public sector > Public sector
- Real estate > Social housing
- Transport > Transport and shipping