Catherine Sear
Partner
Catherine Sear is a partner in the Tax Department and a member of the Private Investment Funds Group.
She focuses on the tax aspects of private investment fund structuring, including the structuring of carried interest and executive co-investment arrangements as well as tax issues relating to the establishment and operation of fund management businesses. She provides advice to fund managers on the tax aspects of private equity, venture capital, infrastructure, real estate and debt funds, including funds of funds, and has particular experience of the tax issues associated with investment partnerships. In addition, Catherine advises institutional investors on their investments in private funds and advises on tax matters on secondary transactions.
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Welcome to the May edition of the Proskauer UK Tax Round Up. This month we saw Advocate Generals’ opinions in two European Court VAT cases with UK implications and welcome European Commission State Aid approval for EMI option schemes which had expired. Please view this month’s issue of the UK Tax Round Up.… Continue Reading
Welcome to the March edition of the Proskauer UK Tax Round Up. As promised, the Spring Statement from the Chancellor focused on the economy and public finances without any major tax announcements. However, a few interesting consultation and position papers were published. We have summarised these below along with a handful of other developments since … Continue Reading
Welcome to the February edition of the Proskauer UK Tax Round Up. Although there have been no major developments since our last issue there have been several interesting cases published. Please view this month’s issue of the UK Tax Round Up.… Continue Reading
Welcome to the January 2018 edition of the Proskauer UK Tax Round Up. This month has been fairly quiet from a tax perspective, which provides a welcome respite from the busy end to 2017. Please view this month’s issue of the UK Tax Round Up.… Continue Reading
Welcome to the December 2017 edition of the Proskauer UK Tax Round Up. There have been many announcements and publications this month, largely a result of the Autumn Budget and publication of the Finance (No. 2) Bill 2017-19. Please view this month’s issue of the UK Tax Round Up.… Continue Reading
Welcome to the November 2017 edition of the Proskauer UK Tax Round Up. The past month has seen a major case on interest finalised before the Supreme Court as well as some interesting proposals for the simplifications of the laws on VAT. Please view this month’s issue of the UK Tax Round Up.… Continue Reading
Welcome to the October 2017 edition of the Proskauer UK Tax Round Up. The past month has been a number of interesting case decisions among other developments. Please view this month’s issue of the UK Tax Round Up.… Continue Reading
Welcome to the September 2017 edition of the Proskauer UK Tax Round Up. Since our last edition, the Finance (No 2) Bill has been published and started its passage through the House of Commons, draft legislation for inclusion in next year’s Finance Bill has been published and the date for the first Autumn budget has … Continue Reading
The Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber), the UK’s second level tax appeal court, have just published their judgement in the McQuillan case, which considered whether shares with no right to dividends or any other profits are or are not “ordinary share capital” (OSC) for UK tax purposes. There are a number of UK tax … Continue Reading
Background As mentioned in our July 2017 edition of UK Tax Round Up, the UK has enacted a new corporate criminal offence of failing to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion. The law comes into effect on 30th September 2017, and businesses should ensure that they have considered its impact before then. A risk assessment … Continue Reading
The summer break means that we are still waiting for the new Parliament’s drafts of the Customs, National Insurance Contributions and Finance (No 2) Bills discussed in the July 2017 edition although the timeline for the Finance (No 2) Bill has now been clarified. Please view this month’s issue of the UK Tax Round Up.… Continue Reading
It has been another relatively quiet month from a tax perspective as we continue to wait for the Summer Finance Bill, the first Finance Bill of the new Parliament, to be published. Please view this month’s issue of the UK Tax Round Up.… Continue Reading
This month has been quiet from a tax perspective as a number of significant tax measures planned for inclusion in the first Finance Act 2017 were put on hold until after the general election. We will report on their progress in future editions. Please view this month’s issue of the UK Tax Round Up.… Continue Reading
The previous month has been dominated by politics, with an announcement of a snap general election leading to postponement of many proposals in draft legislation. This month’s edition of the UK Tax Round Up discusses how certain provisions of the draft legislation could be impacted by the election, among other issues.… Continue Reading
After numerous UK tax changes affecting asset managers over the past few years – not least the wholesale re-vamping of the tax treatment of carried interest and other fund participations for investment fund managers – the UK government’s budget last week (8 March 2017) was a relatively uneventful affair for those in the investment management … Continue Reading
Many people will be familiar with the information gathering and reporting requirements the OECD’s Common Reporting Standard (“CRS”) places on financial institutions. The first exchanges of information between tax authorities will take place next year, with all CRS jurisdictions exchanging information by 2018. And we are now starting to see how tax authorities expect this … Continue Reading
The UK’s 2016 budget was announced on Wednesday 16 March 2016. Although we are waiting for detailed legislation for most of the tax-related announcements, below is a brief summary of some tax points which have caught our attention. Capital gains tax (CGT) rates for individuals have been reduced from 28% to 18% (for higher and … Continue Reading
UK Tax Round Up: May 2018
By Robert E. Gaut, Stephen Pevsner and Catherine Sear on Posted in Corporate Taxation, International Taxation, UK Tax
UK Tax Round Up: March 2018
By Robert E. Gaut, Stephen Pevsner and Catherine Sear on Posted in Corporate tax, International Taxation, UK Tax
UK Tax Round Up: February 2018
By Robert E. Gaut, Stephen Pevsner and Catherine Sear on Posted in UK Tax
UK Tax Round Up: January 2018
By Robert E. Gaut, Stephen Pevsner and Catherine Sear on Posted in UK Tax
UK Tax Round Up: December 2017
By Robert E. Gaut, Stephen Pevsner and Catherine Sear on Posted in UK Tax
UK Tax Round Up: November 2017
By Robert E. Gaut, Stephen Pevsner and Catherine Sear on Posted in U.S. Legislation, UK Tax
UK Tax Round Up: October 2017
UK Tax Round Up: September 2017
By Robert E. Gaut, Stephen Pevsner and Catherine Sear on Posted in UK Tax
Zero Dividend Shares are Ordinary Share Capital
By Stephen Pevsner, Robert E. Gaut and Catherine Sear on Posted in UK Tax
Failure to Prevent the Facilitation of Tax Evasion: New United Kingdom Corporate Criminal Offence
By Robert E. Gaut, Stephen Pevsner and Catherine Sear on Posted in Compliance, UK Tax
UK Tax Round Up: August 2017
By Robert E. Gaut, Stephen Pevsner and Catherine Sear on Posted in UK Tax
UK Tax Round Up: July 2017
By Robert E. Gaut, Stephen Pevsner and Catherine Sear on Posted in UK Tax
UK Tax Round Up: June 2017
By Robert E. Gaut, Stephen Pevsner and Catherine Sear on Posted in UK Tax
UK Tax Round Up: May 2017
By Robert E. Gaut, Stephen Pevsner and Catherine Sear on Posted in UK Tax
A Quiet UK Budget for Asset Managers, But Other Recent Tax Changes Shouldn’t Be Forgotten
By Catherine Sear on Posted in UK Tax
Proposed New UK Penalties Regime Precipitated by CRS
By Robert E. Gaut, Catherine Sear and Gregory Branagan on Posted in UK Tax
Tax Announcements in the UK’s Budget 2016
By Robert E. Gaut, Catherine Sear and Gregory Branagan on Posted in UK Tax
