Specialist SDLT Advisory Service Team
Nigel Thompson
Tax Partner
Nigel is a senior tax partner and head of tax and financial services for Moore (NI) LLP.
Nigel is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1982 and became a Fellow ten years later. He is a Chartered Tax Adviser and also a member of the Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners.
He was educated at Foyle College in Londonderry, and Queen’s University, Belfast, graduating with a First-Class Honours Degree in Business Administration in 1979, being awarded the prize for best student in the same year.
He trained with Binder Hamlyn (now Grant Thornton) in Belfast, and with Arthur Andersen & Co, in Belfast, Dublin and Birmingham before joining the predecessor firm to Moore NI.
Nigel is one of Northern Ireland’s best known tax practitioners and as well as being a leading authority on SDLT, he also has a wealth of experience advising on:
- Capital taxes
- Corporate restructuring
- Enterprise Investment Schemes
- Public issue prospectuses
- Bespoke family MBO solutions
- Family limited partnerships
- HMRC investigations
- Corporate acquisitions and disposals
- Tax mitigation strategies for high net worth individuals