Robert Kent

Consultant Solicitor

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What can I do for you

Rob works on corporate M&A deals, real estate transactions of all kinds, financings and the structuring of investment funds.

He helps clients navigate around the pitfalls of UK tax law in planning and implementing their deals, and negotiates transaction documents to ensure that his clients get the best possible protection on tax issues.

What do others say

“Your help has been awesome” were the words one client used recently in a message to thank Rob for his efforts. 

Supporting your ambitions

Rob recently structured, and obtained HMRC approval for, a real estate investment fund with a tax-advantaged feeder vehicle to enable pension funds to benefit from the fund’s property trading activity without themselves being exposed to the tax charges they would have suffered if trading themselves.  On the corporate M&A side, Rob found a tax-efficient and finance-efficient solution to the challenge of extracting unwanted business and the extraction sale proceeds from a target group prior to closing without generating taxable income.

What else should you know?

 Rob was a contender on BBC Mastermind in  2015, and hopes to get the chance to appear on Pointless one day. 

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What our clients say about us

“I think Mills & Reeve are a wonderful firm. The support they have provided to us in a really difficult area has been brilliant, collaborative and commercially minded. The team were absolutely wonderful and a joy to work with. Amazing advice and support and a real collaborative effort with us. I can't thank them enough for getting us through some really tough times and doing so with an amazing can-do attitude.”

“They are friendly, fast, always available and always on top of the game. I tend to judge my legal team against the other side's legal team and never doubt Mills & Reeve is the better of the two.”

“All interactions have been very clear. Responses to questions have always been very swift and unambiguous. Our company, and my family, have used various services in Mills & Reeve with the same level of satisfaction.”

“I value the fact that Mills & Reeve are recognised as a good place to work in the UK Best Companies survey. This aligns with the values of our business and means that Mills & Reeve can share what is required to achieve this status with our business.”