Background
Background

What sets Isobel apart?

Isobel is an expert in business taxation, working primarily with medium to larger-sized corporates.

She has a passion and enthusiasm for advising her clients, always seeking to gain a deep and real understanding of their personal and business objectives in order to ensure that their tax positions are aligned as closely as possible with their aims.

Isobel works tirelessly to ensure that tax does not impede a client’s objectives, always looking to maximise claims for available reliefs whilst designing the most tax-efficient structuring of business transactions.

Many of Isobel’s clients have international interests, with commercial operations in numerous jurisdictions. She is passionate about making sure that the consequent global tax challenges are minimised, whilst maximising available opportunities.  

Isobel is renowned for building long-lasting relationships with her clients to ensure they receive the best possible professional service from across the range of specialist teams available in Bishop Fleming.

Isobel's service expertise

  • Advising on minimising corporation tax liabilities and structuring complex reorganisations
  • Advising overseas clients on their business structures and profit repatriation planning
  • Advising on the implications of Brexit and restructuring for the post-Brexit landscape
  • Advising on the interaction of taxes between different jurisdictions, transfer pricing risks and other issues arising from the OECD’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) initiative
     
  • Advising clients under HMRC enquiry, working hard to secure the best outcome for them. Isobel understands that an enquiry can be a stressful experience for a client, but when it is effectively managed that stress and the inconvenience can be minimised
  • Advising on succession planning via disposals, family inheritance or management buy-ins / outs. Isobel works closely with colleagues in the corporate finance team to ensure that the most appropriate options are explored, bearing in mind that whilst tax is an important element it is only one aspect of the whole planning process

Isobel's sector experience

  • Advising manufacturing firms on their tax strategies, minimising exposure to tax and maximising available reliefs
  • Advising developers, housebuilders and property investment companies on minimising their tax liabilities in complex property transactions