Anamika Pandey

Expertise

Anamika is a member of the tax team with over ten years’ experience in tax. Her practice covers the whole range of UK tax issues which businesses encounter.

Anamika’s corporate experience includes advising on the tax aspects of mergers, acquisitions, reorganisation of companies and tax efficient structures for commercial operations. Anamika also has experience in relation to the structuring of and implementation of the tax aspects of private equity transactions and advising employers, management teams and employees on the tax implications of holding shares and/or debt.

Anamika has particular expertise in advising on the tax aspects of international and cross-border transactions. Anamika also advises on a wide range of employee tax issues, including the tax treatment of remuneration packages, internationally mobile employees, termination payments and IR-35.

Anamika regularly advises national housebuilder clients on the SDLT and VAT implications of land acquisition structures including phased completions, options, promotion agreements and linked transactions and is often involved in drafting applications for SDLT relief and advising on the deferral of SDLT. Anamika also advises on the implications of business and asset transfers, primarily in the context of transfers of going concerns.

Anamika is dual qualified (in India and England and Wales) and has a master’s degree in International Tax Law from the Vienna University of Economics and Business and a master’s degree in International Business Law from the National University of Singapore. Ana has also worked in India and Singapore before making a move to the UK.

Experience

1. Advising Elmsley Capital and Westerly group on structuring and implementing their investment in the world’s largest baby and toddler swim school (Water Babies Limited) with a network of family-run franchise businesses across the UK, Ireland, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, China, and the United States.
2. Advising private equity and alternative investment platform, Connection Capital, on its backing of the management buyout of Hood Group Limited, a UK-based specialist in insurance distribution and services.
3. Advising Ross Trustees, an LDC-backed corporate pensions trustee business, on its acquisition of Independent Governance Group Limited.
4. Advising on the sale of the entire issued share capital of Tower Cold Chain, which was backed by US private equity house Aurora Capital Partners, to Cold Chain Technologies, a global provider of advanced thermal packaging and digital monitoring solutions for the transportation of temperature-sensitive life sciences products.
5. Advising on the tax implications and structuring of a major housing development by Crosstower Ventures Limited, including VAT, capital gains tax, corporation tax, transfer pricing and SDLT issues.
6. Advising (including assisting in the multi-jurisdictional tax due diligence exercise) the shareholders of design and engineering firm, Sudlows Consulting Group on the sale of the business to Kent PLC, a global engineering services leader.
7. Advising Clydesdale Bank plc (trading as Virgin Money) and Santander UK plc on the tax aspects of the financing of STAR Capital Partnership LLP’s (STAR’s) acquisition of the UK’s leading pure-play air compressor rental provider GenAir UK Ltd (GenAir UK).