Biography

Akash Mehta is an associate in Weil's Tax Department, based in London. Akash's experience includes advising clients on complex UK and international corporate tax matters, with a focus on M&A transactions (public and private), cross-border structuring and debt capital markets. Akash also advises on tax disputes.
Recent representative experience includes:
- Ares Management and Goldman Sachs on their participation in Clayton, Dubilier & Rice’s takeover of Morrisons, which valued the British supermarket at £10.2bn including debt
- Lone Star on its take-private of McCarthy & Stone
- Sanofi on its $1.45bn acquisition of Kymab
- Clayton, Dubilier & Rice on the acquisition of OCS, as part of its simultaneous acquisition of Atalian
- Ad hoc group of lenders in Seadrill Limited’s $5bn debt restructuring
- Ares Management as lender in connection with Towerbrook’s acquisition of Premium Credit
- GSAM as lender in connection with the refinancing of Casa Optima
- Montagu Private Equity on the acquisition of the ISI Emerging Markets Group
- PAI Partners on the acquisition of HKA
- Macquarie Asset Management on the acquisition of Roadchef
- Aareon (a portfolio company of Advent International) on its acquisition of Arthur Online
- Aleph Capital and Crestview Partners on the acquisition of Framestore
- Hornetsecurity (a portfolio company of PSG) on the acquisition of Altaro
Prior to joining Weil, Akash worked in the tax team of a leading international law firm in Sydney, where he acted for multinationals on transactions and disputes, and in the corporate tax team of a “Big 4” accounting firm.
Latest Thinking, Firm News & Announcements
Latest Thinking
-
Spring Budget 2023: Tax Update
Blog Post — Tax Blog
— By
Jenny Doak,
Aron Joy,
Oliver Walker,
Erica Rees,
Kevin Donegan and
Akash Mehta
— March 15, 2023
On 15 March 2023, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivered his Spring Budget, declaring that this would be a budget focussed on growth ...
-
CJEU confirms that sub-participations are exempt from EU VAT
Blog Post — Tax Blog
— By
Jenny Doak,
Erica Rees and
Akash Mehta
— November 07, 2022
In its October 2022 decision in O. Fundusz Inwestycyjny Zamknięty reprezentowany przez O S.A. (Case C-250/21), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) confirmed that a sub-participation falls within the exemption from VAT for granting credit. The decision will be a relief for banks and other lending institutions, after Advocate General Medina’s opinion in this case earlier this year, which suggested that a sub-participation might not be exempt from VAT. ...
-
Repeal of IR35 Reforms
Blog Post — Tax Blog
— By
Oliver Walker,
Kevin Donegan,
Ivor Gwilliams and
Akash Mehta
— September 27, 2022
As part of Friday’s mini budget announcements, the Government has decided to repeal the 2017 and 2019/2021 changes to the “IR35”... ...
- MDR/DAC 6 Update Blog Post — Tax Blog — By Akash Mehta, Jenny Doak and Erica Rees — January 05, 2022
-
DAC6: Significantly Limited Scope in the UK post-Brexit
Blog Post — Tax Blog
— By
Jenny Doak,
Oliver Walker,
Aron Joy and
Akash Mehta
— December 31, 2020
UK Government published regulations dramatically reducing the scope of DAC6. DAC6 will, from today, mostly cease to apply in the UK. ...
Firm News & Announcements
- Weil Advises Lenders on TowerBrook’s Acquisition of Premium Credit Limited Deal Brief — November 28, 2022
- Weil Advises CD&R on its Acquisitions of Atalian and OCS Deal Brief — August 02, 2022