Alan Heuston
Europe Guide 2024
Band 3 : Tax: Lawyers
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About
Provided by Alan Heuston
Practice Areas
Tax (corporate)
Career
Alan works on the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, reorganisations, restructurings, migrations, capital markets, financial products and banking. He also advises both domestic and international clients on the tax implications of setting up operations in Ireland to exploit and develop intellectual property. Alan is a qualified Chartered Accountant, Chartered Tax Adviser and Solicitor and is therefore able to understand complex accounting, legal and tax issues and he uses that knowledge to develop commercial solutions to issues as they arise.
Alan also heads up our Betting and Gaming Group. As a former director of tax with Paddy Power Betfair Plc, Alan has significant first-hand experience of the regulatory and taxation aspects of the betting and gaming sector.
Alan co-authored the Irish chapter of The Gambling Law Review 2017 (Second Edition)) and the Irish chapter of The International Comparative Legal Guide - Gambling 2022. .
Alan is a General Member of the prestigious International Masters of Gaming Law, a nonprofit educational organization of gaming attorneys, regulators, educators, executives and consultants.
Chambers Review
Europe
Alan Heuston acts on tax issues related to cross-border acquisitions, asset sales and investments. He also represents clients in tax disputes.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Alan is fantastic. He's easy to work with, very knowledgeable and knows the tax code updates. He really gets to know you as a client and spends a lot of time with us talking about tax elements."
"Alan is extremely approachable and makes you feel very comfortable in unknown areas. He is very personable, clearly has deep and broad experience and has lots of confidence in his technical advice."
"Alan is fantastic. He's easy to work with, very knowledgeable and knows the tax code updates. He really gets to know you as a client and spends a lot of time with us talking about tax elements."
"Alan is extremely approachable and makes you feel very comfortable in unknown areas. He is very personable, clearly has deep and broad experience and has lots of confidence in his technical advice."