Practice Areas

Our Tax Group provides an internationally experienced team of partners and professionals to provide innovative and leading edge tax services to its international corporate and individual client base.

Our service offering is focussed on companies and individuals using Ireland as part of their global tax management strategy.  We regularly work with tax counsel from overseas practices on mergers and acquisitions, redomiciliations, asset finance, debt capital markets, debt structures and investment funds.

Ireland’s membership of the EU, its regulatory regime, the 12.5% corporate tax rate, various tax credit relief regimes and tax exemptions in respect of certain activities provides a unique platform to structure international business in and through Irish corporate and other vehicles. 

Our services include advising on:

• Structuring multinational corporate activities in and through Ireland
• Use of Ireland as a location to build and develop an EMEA hub
• Corporate inversions into Ireland
• Ireland as a location for intellectual property
• Structuring acquisition and disposal of distressed debt
• Double taxation treaties
• Employee benefits and packages
• Stamp duty & VAT
• Transfer pricing
• Tax controversies

Acquisition & Disposal of Distressed International Debt Through Ireland

Current market conditions have given rise to significant opportunities in acquiring distressed debt internationally. Much of this debt has been lent for property acquisitions from Irish and other financial institutions.  A combination of factors has led to loan portfolios being traded at a discount to their face value. Read More 

 

Recommendations:

Legal 500 2013
John Gulliver heads Mason Hayes & Curran’s ‘very experienced, quality tax team’, which also includes Robert Henson. Recent work includes acting for Samsung on the sale of its hard disk drive business to Ireland-based Seagate.

Chambers & Partners Europe, Europe's Leading Lawyers, 2013
This fast-growing department is becoming a significant player on the Irish tax scene and has attracted a number of new clients in recent times. The team handles cross-border transactions and corporate reorganisations, and regularly advises US companies on the structuring of IP held in Ireland. It represents an impressive roster of international names including Mylan, Stanley Black & Decker and Barclays. A recent highlight saw the team act for SAMSUNG on the sale of its hard disk drive business to Seagate.  Sources say: “There is quality across the board and the team has a dynamic, can-do approach.”

Tax Directors Handbook 2012
The hire of John Gulliver has shifted the focus of the team and raised its profile.

To discuss any aspect of your business tax affairs and find out how we can assist you with your tax planning, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Related News

• Aligning Commercial and Tax Objectives
• Mason Hayes & Curran Advised on Sale of PolarLake

Related Publications

• Dawn of a New Era? The Personal Insolvency Bill 2012
• Acquisition & Disposal of Distressed International Debt Through Ireland
• Taxation of Corporate Debt in Ireland versus the UK
• Tax Planning International, Volume 14, No. 8, August 2012,
• International Tax Planning and Anti-Avoidance

Our People

• John Gulliver
  Head of Department
  
• Robert Henson
  Tax Partner
• Gavin O'Flaherty
  Partner
• Nora Larkin
  Partner
• Des Rooney
  Senior Associate