Robert Bradman qualified in Scotland as a Chartered Accountant in 1998 and joined Wilder Coe in 2004 after having spent four years in New York working for a firm of Certified Public Accountants.

Robert was appointed an Audit Partner in 2010 and headed up our Accounting Support department between 2014 and 2026. Robert stepped into the role of Joint Managing Partner of Wilder Coe, alongside Bee-Lean Chew, in 2023.

Robert provides both advisory and compliance services to his corporate clients, working closely with them on a range of areas including advising on business structure and providing financial analysis. Robert Bradman provides audit, accountancy and corporate tax compliance services to his clients, ensuring they comply with their statutory and legal obligations.

By providing important initial accounting and tax assistance to start up organisations, Robert affords you the maximum opportunity to succeed and grow your business over the longer term. Larger, more established clients also benefit from the tailored and in depth advice that Robert provides, helping businesses to meet both long and short term objectives.

Professional Memberships

• The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland

Professional Areas of Expertise

• Statutory audit and financial statements preparation
• Corporate taxation
• Financial Services Authority audits
• Solicitors Accounts Rules work
• Financial projections preparation

Sectors of Expertise

• Property investment
• Property development
• Trade associations
• IT consulting
• Solicitors Practices
• Renewable Energy

Qualifications

• Chartered Accountant (Scotland)
• BA Accounting and Finance

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Ian Saunders is expertly positioned to advise clients on all matters pertaining to Company Secretarial services and Company Formation. His ability to communicate the types of structure that are available to you, coupled with his professional understanding of which structure would beneϐit your business best makes his support a highly sought after commodity.

Ian advises companies of all sizes on compliance under the Companies Acts and UK governance; the drafting of resolutions and specialist share capital and Articles clauses, as well as providing insights on general aspects concerning company law. He has also acted as the nominated company secretary for public companies and has experience in ϐilling this role for AIM-listed vehicles.

Ian Saunders managed the Wilder Coe Statutory department from 1997 and became a Partner in 2010 with continuing responsibility for the department.

Professional Memberships

• Associate of the Governance Institute

Professional Areas of Expertise

• Company Secretarial
• Company Formation
• Verification of Directors and Persons of Significant Control
• The registration and verification of Overseas Entities
• Companies Act Guidance
• The UK Governance Code
• Company Law and its practical applications

Qualifications

• ACG

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Tim’s passion lies in helping his clients maximise their wealth through successful tax planning for the future. Whether you are seeking a solution on the most efficient way to implement your inheritance plans or would simply like some plain-English advice on your tax liabilities, Tim is expertly placed to offer you a highly professional and personalised service.

Having previously worked for HMRC, Tim Cook can use his insights to assist with HMRC investigations and ensure that you are informed at all times, and can offer you clear and simple advice throughout the process.

His technical areas of expertise include tax planning, pensions, emigration and trusts. Tim works with entrepreneurs, and families from a wide range of backgrounds, based both in the UK and overseas.

Tim Cook joined Wilder Coe in 1996 and was made Tax Partner in 2001.

Professional Memberships

• Affiliate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales

Professional Areas of Expertise

• Tax Planning
• Pension Planning
• Inheritance Tax
• Trusts
• HM Revenue and Customs Investigations
• International Tax
• Capital Gains Tax

Sectors of Expertise

• Entrepreneurs
• High Net-Worth Individuals

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Jamie Muirhead is a tax partner at Wilder Coe Ltd since April 2024, based in the City of London.

He advises on all aspects of UK tax compliance, with a particular focus on corporate and business taxes and cross-border work, and currently leads the Corporation Tax team at Wilder Coe Ltd.

Jamie also provides commercially focused tax advice to large corporate groups, international businesses and owner-managed companies across the full spectrum of UK business taxes.

He is experienced leading cross-border tax projects, M&A transaction support assignments, restructuring and reorganisation, and strategic advisory work, including to private equity-backed businesses and investors, and is known for providing practical, commercially driven advice aligned to wider business objectives.

He is a Chartered Tax Advisor (CTA) and a Chartered Accountant (ACA)

Areas of Expertise

• UK corporation tax and business taxes
• Cross-border & international tax
• Large corporate groups
• Transaction tax, M&A transaction support and tax covenant advice
• Tax-efficient acquisition and finance Structuring
• Tax due diligence
• Tax efficient exit structuring
• Group reorganisations
• HMRC enquiries & tax risk management
• Tax expert witness work and tax advice in the context of disputes

Experience

Jamie advises businesses on complex corporation tax and wider business tax matters, with particular expertise in transactions, structuring and international tax issues.

Representative experience includes:

• Advising on a series of complex deals in the hospitality sector, from refinancing with an international private credit lender on gross assets in excess of £1billion, to a landmark hotel sale in central London.
• Assisting an overseas buyer on the purchase of a small UK trading business, using both group and 3^rd party funds, delivering tax efficient finance and acquisition structuring advice and implementation assistance, together with due diligence and SPA support.
• Assist UK and international groups on cross-border structuring, expansion projects and tax risk management, including in respect of international employees and global talent acquisition, managing payroll, VAT and permanent establishment risk.
• Advise an emerging VC fund on the restructure of investment holdings and financing loans to facilitate future growth plans.
• Assist an owner managed cross boarder group on a tax efficient management incentive plan and ‘buy-in’.
• Advising large corporate groups on tax governance, risk management and HMRC matters, group interest and loss planning, and on implementation of the response to legislative changes, including the corporate interest restriction, electricity generator levy and pillar 2.
• Providing expert advice and input on commercial matters including tax cashflow modelling and investment analysis.
• Acting as tax expert and advisor in commercial disputes and litigation matters, including in respect of a liquidated damages claim under an SPA, shareholder disputes, and the quantification of latent uncrystallised tax liabilities in a family dispute with cross-boarder marital assets.

Jamie works closely with boards, CFOs, investors, lawyers and corporate finance advisers to deliver commercially focused solutions on complex tax matters.

Professional Memberships

• Member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW)
• Member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT)

Qualifications

• BA (Hons) Cantab
• ACA
• CTA

Daniel is based in the City of London and has extensive experience (since 1993) in the resolution of business-related disputes as a forensic accountant expert witness, ADR early neutral expert evaluator, expert determiner or arbitrator. He acts across a wide range of industries and specialises in contested accounting, financial loss and share valuation issues in M&A, shareholder, partnership and other complex disputes, including fraud. Daniel is a Chartered Accountant and a Chartered Arbitrator.

Areas of Expertise

• Forensic Accounting
• Early Neutral Expert Evaluation
• Expert Determination
• Arbitration

Experience

Case Experience Includes:

• Business disputes (contract, negligence, loss of profits, business Interruption)

• Shareholder disputes (contested share valuations, unfair prejudice)

• M&A disputes (warranties, completion accounts, purchase price adjustment, deferred consideration)

• Partnership disputes

• Fraud

Representative experience includes:

• Forensic accountant expert witness for the claimant, proprietor of a leading consumer brand, in relation to a counter- claim by its licensee. The licensee claimed substantial financial losses particularly loss of profits, for alleged early termination of the brand licencing agreement in breach of its terms.
• Forensic accountant expert witness for the claimant, an industrial conglomerate, in a claim under an indemnification agreement made in a preceding group reorganisation. The remit involved assisting the Court address certain complex factual issues by reference to the historic financial and management information available. 
• Forensic accountant expert witness for the defendant, majority shareholder in an established operator of nightlife entertainment venues, in a S994 CA 2006 unfair prejudice claim by the minority shareholders in the subject group of companies. The remit concerned the valuation of the minority shareholding for compensatory buyout purposes and on a basis directed by the Court to allow for sale of business at under value and other issues in respect of which complaint had been made. 
• Forensic accountant expert witness for the defendant, a specialist medical equipment manufacturer, in a claim in international arbitration proceedings for breach of commercial agency agreement by its overseas distributor.  The remit concerned the claimed loss of profits and the quantum thereof. 
• Forensic accountant single joint expert (SJE) in a claim for loss of opportunity by an engineering company arising from its claimed loss of a corporate acquisition opportunity due to alleged fraudulent misrepresentations by the vendors of the previous company it had acquired.   The remit concerned assessment of the claimed financial losses including loss of capital value had the second acquisition taken place. 
• Forensic accountant expert adviser for the claimant, the liquidator of a group of companies, in a misfeasance claim against directors for alleged unlawful distributions. The work included detailed consideration and forensic analysis of the available accounting and other evidence in connection with the subject issue, the relevant group entities, the applicable accounting and company law regimes, matters concerning capital reductions, solvency statements and contingent liabilities, and monetary flows.  
• Forensic accountant expert adviser for the defendant, proprietor vendor, in mediation proceedings in a claim for breach of warranties and misrepresentation in connection with the sale of a specialist international media company. The remit concerned the financial loss claimed including in relation to the valuation of the subject company. 
• Independent accountant expert determiner in a share purchase agreement (SPA) dispute about the completion accounts for acquired market leading niche technology manufacturer. The dispute involved issues of jurisdiction and complex contractual requirements including the application of globally accepted international accounting principles (IFRS). 
• Independent accountant expert determiner in a shareholder dispute involving a multi-generational family business operating a chain of niche retail shops and engaged in property investment and development. The issue for determination was the valuation of the issued shares for the purposes of the buy-out of the outgoing group of shareholders. 
• Independent accountant expert determiner in a share purchase agreement (SPA) dispute about the deferred consideration based on and subject to the acquired company achieving defined levels of financial performance in the set earn-out period. The reference included preliminary issue determination in respect of jurisdiction, and analysis and consideration of numerous matters of accounting treatment and in relation to contractual arrangements  
• Sole arbitrator in a statutory arbitration. The dispute concerned business disruption and financial compensation (including loss of profits) resulting from extensive and long running street works near the subject business, a new and used car dealership located on a high-street of a regional town, by a utilities company. 
• Sole arbitrator in a commercial dispute concerning alleged breaches of a contract between the parties in a supply chain for public services. The matter involved complex end user charging arrangements and fee charging arrangements between the parties.  
• Sole arbitrator in a partnership (1890 Partnership Act) dispute concerning a law firm specialising in litigation. The matter involved many parties, numerous legal, procedural, accounting and valuation issues, and a required series of arbitration awards.   
• Independent accountant early neutral expert evaluator, in a shareholder/ director dispute concerning director’s expenses. The subject entity operated hospitality industry sites at various regional towns. 
• Independent accountant early neutral expert evaluator, assisting founder and new investor shareholders in a group of companies resolve an issue between them about the buyout valuation of the shareholdings of the exiting founder team. The issues to address were the valuation of the subject shareholdings and the impact of minority discount (subject to strategic control considerations). The work involved consideration of valuation methodology, the inter-company trading relationship, the group’s earnings prospects, and past transactions in its shares.   

Professional Memberships

• Fellow of the ICAEW
• Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
• Full Member of The Academy of Experts

Qualifications

• Chartered Accountant
• Chartered Arbitrator (CArb)
• Member of the Academy of Experts (MAE) and Qualified Dispute Resolver

Pauline is a leading specialist in Stamp Taxes, who provides practical, tailored advice across corporate and real estate transactions, with a particular focus on corporate restructuring and M&A transactions across multiple jurisdictions. She advises on the stamp duty and stamp duty land tax implications of transactions, working closely with lawyers and advisors in UK and offshore jurisdictions to ensure that the implementation of the transaction and the transfer of assets is carried out in accordance with the strict requirements of the legislation in order to benefit from available reliefs. She also acts as deal lead on M & A projects involving corporate and asset purchases.

She has wide-ranging experience in the delivery of company reorganisations, and setting up new holding structures for clients, as well as expertise in the fields of pre-IPO planning, debt/equity swaps, re-financing and offshore security arrangements. She also works extensively with many leading independent hoteliers.

Having started her career with HMRC in the Stamp Office Pauline previously spent 14 years in professional practice with KPMG as a Stamp Taxes specialist before joining Wilder Coe Ltd as a partner in 2016.

This is what clients say about working with Pauline on property transactions…

I can honestly say that my stress levels were at the max. When you joined in and helped push it all along, I felt such comfort. There were steps that I/we could not have known to take. I saw you guiding us through it all and I am beyond grateful that you were willing to do that. In today’s world, you don’t see this often!

Qualifications

• BA (Hons), University College Cardiff
• Member, Stamp Taxes Practitioners Group

Professional memberships

• Member of the Stamp Taxes Practitioners Group

Professional Areas of Expertise

• Stamp duty
• Stamp duty land tax (SDLT)
• Annual Tax on Enveloped Dwellings (ATED)
• M & A

Sectors of Expertise

• Property investors and funds
• Hotel groups
• Non-resident landlords
• Financial services
• Not for Profit Housing Providers

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Caryl is a highly experienced audit and financial reporting specialist who supports a wide range of clients with clear, practical advice. She also leads the firm’s quality control processes and contributes to driving new technological developments across the practice.

Caryl joined Wilder Coe in 2008 and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2010.

Expertise

• Audit
• Statutory Accounts
• Corporate Tax
• Service Charge Accounts

Sector Experience

• Renewables
• Property Investment
• Software • Pharmaceuticals
• Retail
• Entertainment
• Travel

Qualifications

• ACA
• BSc Economics and Finance

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With over 35 years’ experience, Mark advises individuals and businesses on complex UK tax matters, including issues effecting those moving to or from the UK or holding UK assets while living overseas. He provides clear, strategic advice focused on managing tax exposure both now and for the future.

Mark is known for building strong, long-term client relationships and for his proactive, pragmatic approach. He joined Wilder Coe in April 2024 as Associate Personal Tax Partner and was appointed Personal Tax Partner in October 2024.

Specialisms

• UK tax compliance and tax mitigation planning
• Internationally mobile families and individuals
• Athletes, performers, agents, clubs and associations within the sports, media &
  entertainment industries
• Property and land-related tax matters
• HMRC negotiations, voluntary disclosures, and enquiries
• Business and company start-ups
• Tax-efficient remuneration and succession, retirement, and exit planning
• Trust, estate, and inheritance tax planning

Professional Memberships:

Fellow of the Association of Taxation Technicians - (ATT) Fellow