Haydn is a tax partner who provides tax advice and support across all the commercial practice areas. He is a dual-qualified solicitor and chartered accountant with over 20 years' experience advising on corporate, employment and property tax issues.
Haydn is recognised as a leading individual in Legal 500 and recommended in Chambers for his commercial and practical tax advice and has extensive experience in advising management teams, companies, private equity houses and investors on a wide range of corporate and commercial transactions, ranging from mergers, acquisitions, reconstructions and disposals to the structuring of tax-efficient joint ventures and investments.
Haydn has particular expertise in advising on the design and implementation of a broad range of employee share schemes and equity incentive arrangements including unapproved and approved share option schemes, growth share schemes, phantom options and nil and partly paid shares.
In addition, Haydn regularly advises both public and private sector clients on the tax aspects (and tax-efficient structuring) of land and property transactions (ranging from SDLT and VAT to capital allowances and the Construction Industry Scheme), having acted for numerous local authorities, registered social landlords, retailers, developers and private landowners on a wide range of projects ranging from large scale regeneration projects and joint ventures to refurbishment projects and lease renewals and renegotiations.
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His responsiveness, coupled with his technical knowledge and commercial awareness, has been invaluable to us.
Chambers and Partners 2025 -
He's an excellent tax lawyer who brings a good commercial approach with high levels of services, backed up by strong knowledge of his subject.
Chambers and Partners 2025 -
We feel that Haydn is part of our team - he is responsive to our timescales and extremely reliable - he has never let us down and this enables us to provide a seamless service to our own clients. Haydn is extremely transparent with regard to his charges and so there are no surprises either for us or our clients.
Legal 500 2025 -
What makes Haydn stand out from the rest are his response times, his availability, and his pragmatic commerciality.
Legal 500 2025