A multidisciplinary advisory firm bringing together tax, legal, governance and financial expertise under one roof.
LEXeFISCAL's corporate practice serves owner-managed businesses, closely held groups, and established enterprises whose tax affairs span multiple jurisdictions and whose complexity demands an integrated, senior-level response. We provide advisory that connects corporate tax planning, transaction structuring, employment tax compliance, and legal risk management into a coherent commercial strategy.
We advise on corporate tax structuring across the full range of planning opportunities available to UK businesses, including group relief, the substantial shareholding exemption, capital allowances, and the treatment of intangible assets. For businesses with cross-border operations, we advise on double taxation treaties, permanent establishment risk, Controlled Foreign Company rules, diverted profits tax, and withholding tax obligations. Where transfer pricing is in issue, we advise on policy development and documentation in accordance with OECD guidelines and UK domestic legislation, manage HMRC enquiries, and pursue Advance Pricing Agreements where appropriate.
In the context of acquisitions, disposals, and group reorganisations, we advise on the full range of tax structuring considerations — reorganisation reliefs, the Stamp Duty Land Tax implications of property-holding company transactions, earn-out arrangements, and management incentive plans — working alongside clients’ transaction advisers from the outset to ensure that tax is integral to the deal structure. Drawing on the in-house corporate finance capability of Zain Naqvi, we are able to provide financial analytical support alongside the tax advisory work as part of a single, integrated engagement.
We advise on employment tax compliance and the off-payroll working rules, drawing on the in-house employment law expertise of Dr Angeline Raj-Huntley to provide genuinely integrated advice on employment status, Status Determination Statements, and the management of IR35 enquiries — a cross-disciplinary capability that few specialist tax practices can match. Where HMRC enquiries or Tribunal proceedings arise at corporate level, Dr Frank engages directly and personally throughout, providing the same senior-level attention to dispute resolution that he brings to every advisory engagement.
Vincit Veritas (the truth will prevail)
Clifford is an international tax attorney, tax planner, tax litigator and senior partner at LEXeFISCAL LLP.
He has 40 years’ experience as a specialist in international and UK taxation, delivering customised solutions for high complexity client portfolios in the UK, USA and Europe.
As a tax mediator and International arbitrator, he advises clients on the merits of arbitrating before ICSID and ICC, and on resolving cross-border tax conflicts via mediation.
Clifford also advises on capital raising, preparation of investment memorandum pre IPO, and on complex civil and corporate litigation arising from the Insolvency Act 1986. Other fields of practice include property disputes, partnership and shareholder disputes, commercial contract claims, banking disputes, leasehold and landlord and tenant disputes, and Intellectual Property.
He has acted as a tax attorney before the First-tier Tribunal in a complex MITIC case, and is an accredited court, business disputes, workplace and family mediator. When he’s not practising law, Clifford practises his golf strokes. He’s also interested in healthy eating, travelling, training, chess and politics.
LLM(tax), HDIpICA, PhD, Acquisition International Award Winner: 2015 Best Adviser
