Meet the retail and leisure team
In today’s competitive retail market, the challenges retailers face have never been more complex. With an ever-changing commercial landscape, it has become a constant challenge to achieve strategic advantage in the retail market.
Our Retail and Leisure Team understand these challenges and have a track record of delivering relevant, focused and practical advice to our retail clients. Find out more about the team's knowledge and specialisms.
Click on the names below to meet the team:
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Mark, an audit partner specialising in advising AIM and full list companies, leads our Retail and Leisure team. He has worked with a number of significant retail and providing audit, business process improvement reviews and corporate finance transaction support services.
Mark also previously worked as CFO of a UK retail services group which owned and operated 460 stores in the UK and Europe. He grew the group three-fold through a number of successful acquisitions, where it became the largest operator and consolidator in its market.
Tel: 020 7413 5100
Location: London (Bloomsbury Street)
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Anna McLaren, Head of VAT in our London office, specialises in VAT and duty advice. Particular areas of expertise and experience include retail reviews, identifying duty savings opportunities, customer loyalty schemes and property compliance issues.
Anna regularly works with retailers to identify and implement indirect tax planning opportunities to deliver tax savings and cash flow benefits.
Tel: 020 7413 5100
Location: London (Bloomsbury Street)
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Howard is an audit partner specialising in the retail and property sectors. Howard has a wealth of experience advising several mid-sized retailers, restaurant chains and property companies, both listed and unlisted, on strategic and financial matters.
In addition to advising a large number of retail and commerce related businesses, Howard is also Chairman of Baker Tilly’s Property and Construction Group.
Tel: 020 7413 5100
Location: London (Bloomsbury Street)
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Rob Donaldson is a partner in our M&A and Private Equity team where he advises on business disposals, acquisitions and all forms of fund raising from both debt and equity providers.
His role on transactions is to find and negotiate the best deal possible for our clients whether selling a business for a vendor, acquiring a business for a buyer, or raising debt and equity funding for growth or a partial realisation of value. Rob and our M&A and Private Equity practice are always happy to spend time talking to good quality retail businesses about how they achieve their ambitions.
Tel: 020 7002 8600
Location: London (Old Bailey)
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Kevin is a corporate tax partner with particular expertise in advising small-cap listed companies on the effective management of their tax affairs, both in the UK and internationally. He is especially familiar with the UK/US cross-border issues that retailers often encounter and spent 18 months in New York advising US companies with UK operations.
Kevin has advised on the tax-efficient structuring of numerous retail based acquisitions, disposals, IPOs and reorganisations. He is experienced in the particular issues arising on US catalogue acquisitions by UK groups, including the tax-efficient structuring and financing of such acquisitions, US federal, state and withholding taxes, and obtaining tax relief for intellectual property.
Tel: 020 7413 5100
Location: London (Bloomsbury Street)
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Paul specialises in the provision of audit and advisory services to larger privately owned and listed retail businesses. He has extensive experience of successfully guiding businesses through to IPO on the AIM market where Baker Tilly are recognised as one of the UK's leading advisers.
He provides clients with strategic advice on acquisitions, disposals and Private Equity funding and has a particular interest in fraud detection and prevention within the retail sector.
Tel: 020 7413 5100
Location: London (Bloomsbury Street)
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Simon has 20 years' experience in restructuring and insolvency. He leads Baker Tilly
Restructuring and Recovery LLP’s leisure and hospitality team and also specialises in
motor retail. He has vast experience of working for lenders to these sectors, in his capacity as National Head of Banking.
Simon’s recent notable work in the sector includes the debt restructuring of a national nightclub chain and he was also relationship partner on assignments for a retail distribution business, a food retailer and several bar groups. Simon also recently led the restructuring of a motor retail dealership group, which was recently nominated for an Institute for Turnaround award.
Tel: 020 7002 8600
Location:
London (Old Bailey)
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