At Mills & Reeve LLP, the corporate tax group regularly assists clients in East Anglia with a broad range of matters, including employee ownership trusts and property tax work. Other key areas of instruction for the team include handling the tax aspects of venture capital investments and M&A deals, and the practice routinely acts for entities in the education, healthcare, sports, charities and not-for-profit sectors. Norwich-based Matthew Short co-leads the team with Birmingham-based Kevin Lowe; John Kahn and Katie Harman, both based in the Norwich office, bring experience in advising on employment, corporate, real estate and charities tax issues.
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Key clients

  • Urban & Civic plc
  • Railpen
  • Trinity College Cambridge
  • St John’s College Cambridge
  • The Wellcome Trust
  • TOF Corporate Trustee Limited (OUEM)
  • Bruntwood
  • Stockport MBC
  • Liverpool John Moores University

Work highlights

Acting as tax counsel to TOF Corporate Trustee Limited on the management of its commercial real estate portfolio across the retail, office, industrial and logistics sectors.
Advising Kadans Science Partner on the tax aspects of its acquisition of a development site.
Assisting Trafford Bruntwood LLP with the tax aspects of the disposal of two connected development sites at the former Kelloggs site in Manchester.

Lawyers

Next Generation Partners

Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.

Matthew Short

Leading associates

Leading associates with regular involvement in their team's key work, and recognition from peers or clients as being ones to watch.

John Kahn

Practice head

Kevin Lowe; Matthew Short

Other key lawyers

John Kahn; Katie Harman