Sarah Squires
“She has first rate commercial awareness and the calibre of her written advice is very high. She is also very empathetic when dealing with the client.” Chambers & Partners 2024.
Sarah has significant corporate tax experience, having spent over 20 years working in leading City law firm as a solicitor) before being called to the Bar in 2017. She started her career in the tax department of Linklaters, before moving to Clifford Chance LLP where she was a partner in their tax group from over 10 years. As a partner, she advised on a broad range of corporate transactions – including M&A, corporate reorganisations, real estate, REITs and structured finance.
Sarah’s practice now focuses on general business and corporate tax matters, covering the main direct taxes with recent work including advising on loan relationships and non-resident capital gains tax rules.
In addition to her practice at the bar, Sarah uses her tax experience in the policy world. This includes working as a consultant on tax policy for various trade and other representative bodies, including the British Property Federation (BPF) and CREFC Europe, the representative body for the real estate finance sector. This has involved discussions on both policy and legislation at senior levels within HM Treasury and HM Revenue and Customs, most recently on the tax treatment of non-residents who own UK property, the introduction of “qualifying asset holding companies” and changes to the corporate interest restriction.
- Sarah Squires appointed to the editorial board of the British Tax Review
- MBL: Corporate Tax Conference 2024
- Legal Directory 2024 Bar Rankings
- MBL Seminars: REITs - the fundamentals (August 2023)
- MBL Seminars Interest relief and REIT basics - February 2023
- Chambers and Partners UK Bar Awards 2022
- Old Square Tax Chambers ranked in Chambers and Partners for the UK Bar 2022
- Corporate Capital Loss Restriction (CCLR)
- Corporate Tax Loss Relief | MBL Seminars: Sarah Squires
- Sarah Squires appointed Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords
- Old Square Tax Chambers ranked as a leading set
- Tax Planning for 2019 – Key Haven Publications Ltd
- British Tax Review: Finance (No 2) Act 2023
- British Tax Review Issue 5, 2022 - HMRC v Euromoney Institutional Investor Plc
- British Tax Review: Finance Act 2022 Notes
- British Tax Review: Finance Act 2021 Notes
- British Tax Review: Finance Act 2020 Notes
- Corporation Tax Loss Relief: The Loss Restriction
- Corporation Tax Loss Relief – Article – Sarah Squires
- British Tax Review: Finance Act 2019 Notes
- LexisPSL Practice Note: the QPP exemption – Sarah Squires
- Key Haven 2024 - PRACTICAL TAX PLANNING 2023
- MBL Seminars: Interest relief and corporate losses: June/July 2023
- Chambers Webinar - Corporate residence and hybrid entities
- TaxSnax – Episode 6
- TaxSnax – Episode 7
- Current Issues with the Taxation of UK Real Estate
- Key Haven Publications 2022 – 40th Annual Oxford Four-Silk Sixteen-Speaker
- MBL’s Corporate Tax Conference 2021: Sarah Squires – December 2021
- Key Haven Publications 2021 – 39th Annual Oxford Four-Silk Fourteen-Speaker Residential Seminar
- TaxSnax – Episode 7: Corporate Tax – Reliefs
- Corporate Tax Loss Relief – MBL Seminars: Sarah Squires – May 2021
- TaxSnax – Episode 6: Corporate Tax – Rates
- MBL Corporate Tax Conference 2020
- Corporate Tax Loss Relief – MBL Seminars: Sarah Squires
- Property Tax Conference 2020
- Key Haven Tax Planning Webinar
- MBL Seminars – 2019 Annual Corporate Tax Conference
- CIOT Autumn Residential Tax Update Conference 2019
- KEY HAVEN PUBLICATIONS LTD – PRACTICAL TAX PLANNING 2019
- Commercial Property Development – MBL Seminars ~ Sarah Squires
- Current and New Issues with the Taxation of UK Real Estate
- Corporation Tax Loss Reforms – MBL Seminars
- Corporation Tax Loss Reforms – MBL Seminars
- Member of Lincoln’s Inn
- Chancery Bar Association
- Member of the Tax Law Committee of the Law Society of England & Wales
- Specialist adviser to the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee Finance Bill Sub-Committee (Since 2019)
Sarah Squires is regulated by the Bar Standards Board