Andrew Noble > Browne Jacobson LLP > Birmingham, England > Lawyer Profile

Browne Jacobson LLP
15th Floor
103 Colmore Row
Birmingham
B3 3AG
England

Work Department

Tax.

Career

Andrew leads our tax team and is dual qualified as a solicitor and Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA). He is recognised as a Leading Individual in Legal 500 and has over two decades of experience in corporate and real estate tax, as well as enjoying a focus on tax issues that arise for our public sector clients across the firm.

Andrew advises a wide range of clients from individuals and owner managed businesses to multi-national groups, including in relation to corporate transactions, real estate tax and employee share schemes. In addition, he regularly advises local authorities and other public sector bodies (including in health) on tax issues that arise on transactions and projects they’re involved with, which can often include VAT aspects.

Andrew is a former chair of the West Midlands branch of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) and has previously served on two of its technical sub-committees. He has spoken on tax issues over the years, including events for CIPFA and alongside colleagues on seminars for clients.

As part of his pro bono work, Andrew has been very pleased to serve for over a decade as a non-exec director of a local Birmingham charity working with those in less fortunate circumstances in the city.

Trained Wragge & Co; qualified 1998; moved to Browne Jacobson LLP 2006, partner 2007.

Languages

French (Basic)

Memberships

Chartered Institute of Taxation (associate), Law Society.

Education

Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne; Queens’ College, Cambridge (1987 classics and politics); College of Law, London (1995 CPE; 1996 LPC).

Leisure

Playing music; looking after children; church.

Lawyer Rankings

West Midlands > Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax

(Leading individuals)

Andrew NobleBrowne Jacobson LLP

Browne Jacobson LLP regularly provides structuring and transactional advice in the context of M&A and property deals, and assists public sector and not-for-profits in a number of tax and property matters. The firm is also active in employee incentive schemes. Andrew Noble, a chartered tax adviser and solicitor, leads the practice from Birmingham. Legal director Beth Dowson, based in Nottingham, focuses on property tax, employee share schemes and corporate transactions, with a particular emphasis on retail clients, and senior associate Rebecca Burge specialises in corporate and real estate tax, EIS compliance and employee share incentives.