Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP is active across private and public M&A, private equity transactions, and strategic mandates for financial institutions, among other matters. The team has a core emphasis on sector specialisations, and as such evidences aptitude in areas such as real estate, funds, and insurance. William Arrenberg leads the team. Arrenberg is an expert in real estate tax, including REIT taxation. Howard Murray is active in a broad array of industries, and has supplementary contentious tax knowledge. Aurell Taussig‘s focus is investment funds taxation, which is additionally covered by Casey Dalton. Josh Lom covers M&A and business reorganisations, with experience advising professional service firms and financial institutions.
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‘I have never before worked with so well knit and efficient a team. The communication with the team was superb, they appeared to have an almost 24 hour coverage of the contact points, and it was clear that their nternal communications were every bit as good.’
‘All of the people who I worked with showed an ability to grasp very complex subjects quickly and explain them to me, the client, where they were not clear. Their ability to clearly explain complex documents left me feeling very safe in their hands. Within the tax team, special mention must go to Casey Dalton and Toni Mathers.’
'Well aligned to industry experts in other legal fields to give more rounded advice across a range of areas.'
'Really personable and great industry insight relevant to our deals.'
'A very knowledgeable team, with real strength in depth.'
'Casey Dalton - incredibly talented. Successfully advised us on a number of challenging tax issues.'
Key clients
- Chevron
- Dawsongroup Plc
- Dr Reddy's Laboratories SA
- Inchcape Management (Services) Limited
- Interpath Advisory
- Lloyds Banking Group Plc
- Marex Group Plc
- National Grid Plc
- Panmure Gordon
- Saga Plc
- Sustainable Development Capital LLP
- The Board of the Pension Protection Fund
Work highlights
Advising Waterland Private Equity, a leading private equity sponsor that invests in growing markets through buy-and-build growth strategies, on the sale of Cooper Parry to Lee Equity Partners.
Advising Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Limited on its acquisition of Haleon plc's global portfolio of consumer healthcare brands in the Nicotine Replacement Therapy category outside of the United States for US$ 500 million.
Acting for Inchcape on the sale of its UK Retail Business to Group 1 Automotive for £346 million.
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Practice head
William Arrenberg
Other key lawyers
Howard Murray; Aurell Taussig; Casey Dalton; Josh Lom; James Tryfonos; Toni Mathers