Graham Brough

Graham Brough provides advice on the tax aspects of corporate acquisitions and disposals (public and private); tax advantaged investments; share based incentive plans and other employee benefits; private equity investments; cross-border investment structuring and tax planning; domestic and international joint ventures; reorganizations and demergers; property developments and investments; value added tax; capital market transactions; banking and structured finance.

Mr. Brough is a Solicitor of the Senior Courts, and a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation.

• Advising a UK issuer in respect of a Luxembourg listed, $500m guaranteed senior bond issue
• Designing, drafting and implementing a bespoke option incentive scheme for a new peer to peer lending business
• Advising on and effecting substantial R&D tax credit claims
• Acting for numerous private equity funds on their acquisition of UK corporate assets
• Advising principals on the establishment of a secondary private equity fund and the structure of carried interests
• Acting for a major U.S. headquartered multinational financial services client on their disposal of substantial Polish assets
• Advising on the extension of numerous U.S. stock incentive plans to include UK employees
• Acting for a London AIM listed oil & gas exploration and development company on its recommended £221 million takeover by way of court approved scheme of arrangement
• Acting for a UK investment fund manager in respect of late-filed Fleming overpaid output VAT repayment claims
• Advising on the issue of numerous catastrophe bonds
• Advising on the taxation of share options and restricted share awards for internationally mobile employees
• Advising on the establishment of a bonus sacrifice restricted share award plan
• Advising one of China’s leading companies on its acquisition of a 50% interest in a major Kazakh oil producer, and associated joint venture agreements
• Advised Liberty Media Corporation on the acquisition of its interest in Formula One, the iconic global motorsports business, from a consortium of sellers led by CVC Capital Partners

Recommended in The Tax Directors Handbook, 2015

Advanced Diploma in International Taxation, Chartered Institute of Taxation 2017
distinction

Legal Practice Course, Nottingham Law School 1998

Postgraduate Diploma in Law, Nottingham Law School 1997

M.A., Heriot-Watt University 1996
honours

Qualified Solicitor, England and Wales, 2002

Chartered Tax Adviser, 2014