Trish McCarvill

Trish is our Head of Tax in Ireland. Both a solicitor and a chartered tax advisor, she provides advice across all tax heads on a broad range of commercial matters.

Her expertise covers M&A, cross-border restructurings and reorganisations, share schemes, banking, structured finance/debt capital markets, asset management and investment funds, VAT, real estate transactions and employment tax matters.

Trish is a member of many industry bodies. Her membership of these bodies provides her with the opportunity to discuss and address issues relating to the technical and practical application of Irish tax legislation with the Revenue Commissioners and other leading practitioners. This keeps her at the cutting edge of the ever changing corporate tax landscape.

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Career

Since 2024	Partner, Taylor Wessing
2020-2024	Managing Associate, Simmons & Simmons
2014-2020	Associate, Arthur Cox

2014

Income Tax Advisory Senior, KPMG

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Education

2013	ACCA Diploma in Accounting and Business
2013	Admitted as a lawyer, Ireland
2013	Admitted as an Associate of the Irish Tax Institute

2007

LLB (S) Law Degree, Queens University Belfast

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Publications

The Susquehanna Case – Group Relief s411 TCA 1997, Irish Tax Review 2021 Issue 2, Patricia McCarvill and Martin Phelan

Tax chapter of Employment Law book, Second Edition, by Ailbhe Murphy and Maeve Regan

Memberships & Associations

Audit TALC (Tax Administration Liaison Committee)
Indirect Taxes TALC
Taxation Committee of the Law Society of Ireland
Irish Debt Securities Association

Expertise

Services and Groups Tax Banking & finance Employee incentives General corporate

Sectors Private wealth Real estate Technology, media & communications

Experience

Real estate investment trust

Advising Belgium real estate investment trust on its acquisition of 19 Irish care home assets for over €500 million.

Trish McCarvill

Clean energy provider

Advising a clean energy independent power producer on its €130 million green bond issue and acquisition of solar farms in Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Romania.

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Leading telecommunications company

Preparing a quarterly Global Indirect Tax Update setting out a high-level summary of certain changes to VAT law in countries in which it operates (39 countries in total) and where non-local compliance is operated. Focusing on practical changes affecting VAT and sales tax administration obligations including invoicing, registration, tax rates and operational aspects of submitting returns and related information.

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Fintech company

Securing a large VAT input recovery payment from HMRC for a FinTech business that runs a downloadable, free-of-charge money management app.

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Loan provider

Advising on the Irish withholding tax and the VAT treatment of Merchant Cash Advances for an English-incorporated company that offers loans and receivables programmes for platforms.

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Multinational investment bank

Drafting a comprehensive beneficial ownership opinion for a US investment bank and financial services company in relation to its equity trading activity.

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