The newspapers are full of stories about tax cheats of one kind or another, and recently about acquisitions of UK listed businesses in “tax inversion” deals proposed by US businesses. The tax inversion works by reducing the tax payable by the US business. Through the acquisition of the UK business, their headquarters moves out of […]

  The last couple of weeks I have been advising my client on a somewhat unusual transaction. His business distributes software, word-wide, through a network of company owned outlets, resellers and distributers. The owner of one of his distributers approached him a few weeks ago, asking if he wanted to buy her out so that […]