Julian Moran

Expertise

Julian is a specialist tax solicitor. He advises businesses and their owners on all aspects of tax in the UK, helping them achieve their commercial objectives in a tax efficient way.  Julian also acts on behalf of clients in resolving disputes with HM Revenue & Customs.

Julian Advises

• Listed and private companies
• Owner managed businesses
• Family businesses
• Partnerships
• Selling shareholders
• Management buy-out teams
• Private equity firms
• Property developers and investors
• EIS funds and EIS companies
• Overseas companies establishing a UK presence

Experience Highlights

• Advising on the disposal of a £500m retail division
• Overturning a £2m VAT assessment issued to a food manufacturer and forcing HMRC to change their published guidance
• Advising a private equity firm on a complex series of investments in high-profile trading companies
• Advising a growing company on every aspect of a bespoke EMI share option arrangement for a large number of key employees, which after five years resulted in a very successful exit.
• Being the retained tax adviser for a successful sports-based app business, advising on share structuring, financial investments, tax efficient equity incentives for management, and acquisitions of partner businesses.

Career History

Previous Law Firms

• Hammonds
• Ernst & Young
• Walker Morris
• Gordons
• Lupton Fawcett

Education

• St John’s College, Oxon
• College of Law (York)

Other

• Regular presenter of Law Society webinars on Stamp Duty Land Tax