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Expertise

Jonathan advises on the tax aspects of a broad range of commercial transactions and advises across tax heads in a wide range of areas including corporate, mergers and acquisitions, corporate migrations, investment funds, structured finance, banking and property.

Experience

Some of the recent transactions Jonathan has advised on include:

• Advising Lloyds Banking Group plc on the cross-border merger of Bank of Scotland (Ireland) Limited with Bank of Scotland plc
• Advising Warner Chilcott plc on a dividend recapitalisation transaction involving a special dividend of $2.14 billion in aggregate
• Advising James Hardie Industries on Irish tax issues in connection with its transformation to a Societas Europaea company (SE) and its migration to Ireland
• Advising Willis Group on its migration to Ireland
• Advising on the cross-border merger of Eurco Finance Limited into Dexia Insurance Belgium SA
• Advising NASDAQ listed Warner Chilcott on its migration to Ireland and on the acquisition by it of the global pharmaceuticals business of The Procter & Gamble Company for a purchase price of US$3.1 billion
• Advising Belgian listed ThromboGenics NV on a cross-border merger with its Irish subsidiary, ThromboGenics Limited
• Advising the German bank Landesbank Baden-Württemberg on the first outbound cross-border merger in Ireland under the Directive
• Advising lessors on the establishment of leasing vehicles in Ireland