As a Partner at Milsted Langdon, Rob leads a team of accounting and tax professionals across the firm’s five offices, with a focus on delivering an exceptional experience for every client.

A pragmatic and commercially driven tax specialist, Rob advises a broad range of clients, including owner-managed businesses, start-ups, listed companies, subsidiaries of international groups, and their directors.

Building strong client relationships and being actively involved in their future plans is a key part of his role.

His team provides comprehensive UK tax advice, covering corporate and personal tax, business sales and management buyouts, R&D tax relief, share incentives, profit extraction, inheritance tax, VAT, stamp duty, and much more.

The wider team also supports clients with personal tax planning, trusts and estates, inheritance tax, VAT, stamp duty and residency matters, as well as inbound and outbound tax matters through Milsted Langdon’s extensive international network.

Rob also specialises in:

• Share incentive planning, including EMI and unapproved share options
• Tax planning for business sales and corporate transactions
• Structuring and claims under the EIS and Seed EIS (SEIS)
• SME tax-efficient profit extraction strategies
• Valuation of limited company share from a tax perspective

Beginning his tax career at another leading tax practice, working on large corporate cases across Bristol and the Thames Valley, Rob went on to spend 12 years at one of the UK’s largest tax firms, where he led the Bristol corporate tax team and chaired the national Corporate Transactions Group. He qualified as a Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA) in 1999, joined Milsted Langdon in 2009 and became a Partner in 2011.

Under his leadership, Milsted Langdon’s tax team has been recognised nationally, winning Best Tax Practice in a Regional Firm at the Taxation Awards and a number of shortlistings for the same prestigious award across multiple years.