Alice Parsons

Associate, London

Biography

Overview

Alice is an Associate in our global Tax practice based in London.

Alice has a range of transactional and advisory experience advising corporates, private equity houses, financial institutions and investment funds, with a strong focus on the tax aspects of cross-border mergers, acquisitions involving both share sales, securities and business sales, investments and reorganizations.

She also advises on complex incentive arrangements for partnerships, public and private companies and private equity firms, and has a background in cross-border employment tax matters including employment-related securities and tax-advantaged share options.

In addition, Alice advises on various real estate tax issues, VAT, portfolio tax structuring and real estate and debt financing.

Bars and Courts
England and Wales, Solicitor
Education
MA
Emmanuel College
BA in Law
Emmanuel College
LPC and MSc in Business
University of Law
Languages
English

Experience

Representation of Hartree Partners, a global energy and commodities trading company, on its acquisition of the majority of ED&F Man's outstanding A2 and B1 senior secured legacy debt and the acquisition of ED&F Man Commodities' three business units Volcafe (coffee), ED&F Man Liquid Products (molasses, animal feeds and fish oil) and ED&F Man (sugar).

Representation of West Burton Energy (WBE), a UK-based independent power producer owned by funds managed by EIG, on its sale of assets related to the West Burton power stations to TotalEnergies.

Representation of TIER Mobility on an agreement to merge with Dott, a transaction which brought the companies together to form Europe's leading micro-mobility operator.

Representation of Actis on its acquisition of a newly carved-out tower portfolio from leading Central & Eastern European telecommunications operator Telekom Srbija.

Representation of Sir Paul Marshall and Old Queen Street Ventures Limited on the acquisition of The Spectator magazine.

Representation of Groupe BPCE on the acquisition of the activities of Société Générale Equipment Finance to become the European leader of equipment financing solutions for manufacturers, dealers, vendors and corporate customers.

Representation of Geopost SA, Europe's largest parcel delivery network, on the sale of its delivery platform Stuart (SRT Group) to the international investment fund Mutares.

Representation of pan-European fintech Monese and its global platform as a service (PaaS) business XYB as they each secured new funding and separated from their existing group structure to become two independent businesses.

Representation of Grainger plc on their Connected Living joint venture with TfL to develop a portfolio of residential BTR schemes across London.*

Representation of Novae/CNA on the tax ramifications and tax strategies of various tax indemnity insurance policies.*

Representation of Chatsworth Schools on a series of school acquisitions across the United Kingdom.*

*Prior to White & Case