EXPERTISE 

Zoe is an experienced corporate and commercial Tax & Structuring partner based in our London office. Over the last twenty years, Zoe has developed specialist expertise in tax advice, structuring, implementation and ongoing risk management for a wide variety of UK and international clients, transactions and projects. 

In addition to core transactional work, Zoe's advisory practice covers an extensive range of topics including; complex tax issues on UK and cross-border restructures, reorganisations and refinancing; inward investment; international movement and repatriation of capital; tax relating to employment, pensions and management incentive structures; banking and finance; tax risk management projects (e.g. IR35 and the Criminal Finances Act); demerger structuring advice; and fund structuring advice. 

Zoe has particular expertise in private equity, equity capital markets and private and listed funds. Her management incentives practice covers the full range of tax advantaged and non-tax advantaged incentives and remuneration structures, whether individual, select group or all-employee plans including EMI, CSOP, SAYE, SIP, LTIPs, carried interest and co-investment arrangements. She is accustomed to working with specialists in other jurisdictions to structure arrangements for use by multinational management teams and employee bases. 

Zoe is a solicitor advocate with fifteen years' experience taking leading roles in tax disputes, including cases in which she has successfully acted as leading advocate before the Tax Tribunal.