Natasha is a partner in the Tax Group at Olswang, awarded LexisNexis Best Tax Team in a Law Firm in 2012 and 2010. Natasha has a broad corporate tax advisory and transactional practice, advising on UK and international direct and indirect tax issues in relation to corporate, real estate, outsourcing and IP transactions and planning.
Natasha has a particular focus on private equity transactions advising both institutions and management teams as well as advising more generally on M&A, reorganisations, joint ventures and corporate restructurings. In relation to real estate, she advises UK and offshore clients on complex fund structures for property investment and development, acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures and landlord and tenant issues.
Natasha sits on the Tax Committee of the Quoted Companies Alliance, is a member of the LexisPSL Tax Consulting Editorial Board and of the Stamp Taxes Practitioners Group.
Industry recognition:
Band 5 – Tax, Chambers and Partners
Particular highlights include advising:
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ITV plc on its acquisition of So Television Limited, the independent television producer responsible for "The Graham Norton Show" and "The Sarah Millican Show" amongst other properties;
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the shareholders of E-consultancy.com Limited, a digital and events-led information provider to the global digital marketing and e-commerce community, on the sale to Centaur Media plc, the publicly quoted business information and events group. The transaction involved the payment of an initial consideration of £12 million and a further payment (not to exceed £38 million) by way of earn-out;
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the shareholders of NES Global Talent, including long term client Graphite Capital, on the sale of the international technical recruitment group to funds advised by AEA Investors LP for £234 million;
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independent private equity firm Primary Capital Limited on the £35 million management buyout of The Leisure Pass Group Limited;
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Beacon Capital Partners in the £142 million sale of a 50% stake in MidCity Place to Oxford Properties;
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clients of F&C REIT, on the sale of The St Katharine's Estate in central London to a partnership between the Max Property Group and a South African family trust for approximately £160 million;
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the management team of Global Navigation Solutions Limited, a company specialising in maritime cartography (both paper and digital), on the terms of investment by Phoenix Equity Partners;
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ISIS Equity Partners in relation to its £5.2 million investment in Pho 2012 Limited, an independent restaurant group that specialises in Vietnamese street food;
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the shareholders of eConversions Limited on the sale of the hit money saving websites VoucherCodes.co.uk and Gutschein-Codes.de to Whale Shark Media Inc. the Austin, Texas based online shopping group;
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the sellers of the commercial and residential property partnership EA Shaw, in the sale of the Covent Garden-based business to the CBRE Group, a leading global commercial real estate services and investment firm;
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Trafalgar Overseas Limited (which was also advised by F&C Reit Asset Management) on the acquisition of approximately 220 properties for over £600m from the Administrators and Administrative Receivers of Dawnay Day Group, BDO Stoy Hayward;
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FTSE 100 client Unilever on the tax aspects of a global, second generation outsourcing deal with IT services provider Unisys, working with Unilever's in-house tax team to address the direct and indirect tax issues; and
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US company, Green Bullion Financial Services LLC, trading as Cash4Gold on its expansion into the UK and the rest of Europe.
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