The tax implications of real estate M&A and finance transactions and the mitigation of tax costs are of crucial importance to investors.
Linklaters’ global real estate team is one of few leading firms to offer discrete real estate tax expertise to clients. The firm’s specialists advise on the tax aspects of investing in and developing international real estate, including structuring property investment funds for real estate markets around the world.
Recent real estate tax transactions include advising
- Swiss Re on the tax aspects of the £600 million sale of 30 St Mary Axe, better known as the ‘Gherkin’
- Sainsbury’s on the tax aspects of the refinancing structured as a securitisation of Sainsbury’s £3 billion property portfolio
