Profilo
Clive focuses his practice on advising on tax and structuring in relation to UK and international transactions, funds and investment structures, primarily in the real estate and financial services sectors.
Clive has over 25 years' experience advising on direct and indirect tax and structuring in relation to UK and international transactions, funds and investment structures, in the real estate and financial services sectors. His clients include UK and overseas asset managers, financial institutions, property managers and developers.
Clive is recognised by The Legal 500 UK 2023 for Tax with one source calling him “an absolute tax guru who we can pull into any tax-related matter to resolve an issue.”
Concentrations
- Direct and indirect tax, including VAT and transfer taxes
- Joint ventures
- Investment funds
- Investment structures
- Acquisitions and disposals of equity, real estate and debt
- Real estate investment and development
- Finance transactions and structures
Competenze
Esperienze Professionali - Attività Accademiche
- Advising a number of UK asset managers on establishing funds to invest in UK real estate.°
- Advising a number of clients sales and purchases of real estate owning companies and other entities.°
- Advising a leading UK based asset manager on the establishment of a structure for Italian institutional investors to invest in real estate in the UK and Nordics.°
- Advising on the establishment of a Luxembourg fund investing in Italian real estate.°
- Advising on a European hotel joint venture, including investments in the UK, Germany, Belgium, France, Ireland the Netherlands.°
- Advising a number of asset manager clients in relation to restructuring investments in UK real estate in preparation for the changes to the UK tax rules for real estate introduced in April 2019 and April 2020.°
- Advising a U.S. hedge fund on structuring ins investment in a UK data centre business.°
- Structuring a complex mixed use UK real estate development project for a family owned business.°
- Advising a leading tax risks insurer in respect of policies covering tax risks in the UK and across Europe.°
°The above representations were handled by Mr. Jones prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
Riconoscimenti e Premi
- Listed, Chambers Global, Tax: Real Estate (UK), 2021-2024. Currently ranked as Band 1 of Tax: Real Estate.
- Listed, Chambers and Partners UK, Tax, 2008-2020 and 2022-2024. Currently ranked as Band 1 of Tax: Real Estate.
- Listed, The Legal 500 UK, Corporate tax, 2008-2020, 2023-2024
- Listed, The Legal 500 UK, VAT and Indirect Tax, 2008-2020
Formazione
- College of Law London, 1993
- Warwick University, 1990
- Regno Unito