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