Gulam Shaikh

Trained in London with a major international firm and spent many years working for US multinationals before moving back into general practice. Over the years I have assisted clients grow their businesses and expand, some of whom ventured into the foreign markets and advised on setting up subsidiaries overseas, joint ventures and collaboration structures and extensive experience in advising clients on transactional taxes and employee share incentives, my experience includes advising on the tax aspects of debt restructuring, corporate acquisitions, financing, and disposal of UK and cross border business. I spend considerable time advising on tax planning for both businesses and private individuals including executives, entrepreneurs, individual investors, trustees, and companies on all aspects of employment and capital taxes including Estate planning. I have been involved in advising my clients in both acquisitions and sales of companies, valuing corporate structures, tax planning, negotiating, and funding strategy to achieving the best possible results for my clients. My experience in running my own businesses has meant that my clients are able to benefit from my knowledge as an entrepreneur and someone who knows at first-hand what it takes to succeed , I always believed and still do that an employer’s mindset is completely different to that of an employee, two completely different animals !. I Set up one of the largest multimedia company in Europe including acquiring a manufacturing facility from Sony Corporation in South Wales and supplied music plants, like Sony, Emi and Technicolor and software industries like Microsoft, Saturn and Zomax with packaging materials. As the packaging industry evolved and changed to digital format , so did our strategy and moved into manufacturing beauty packaging products using aluminium to supply the likes of Revlon, L’Oréal and other major brands. My moto has always been to grow by having a sideways view of life, understanding tradition but never being a slave to it. Wanting to be a business of characters, acting for characters in business I love travelling, meeting new people and love exchanging new ideas, I love to see people of different countries and cultures coming together and achieve so much when working and exchanging ideas as it has always been my firm belief that there is always a better way of doing things if one keeps an open mind.