Richard Croker

Richard Croker is Head of the Corporate Tax team at CMS Cameron McKenna, where he has been a partner since 1997.

He has a wide ranging practice, which includes tax planning for real estate transactions of all kinds for investors, developers and occupiers, fund structuring, restructurings, joint ventures, private finance and projects transactions, and mergers and acquisitions across a number of sectors including oil and gas.   

Relevant experience includes advising:

• Imperial College on the tax and VAT aspects of the redevelopment of the campus at Burlington Danes in a joint venture with MRC and GlaxoSmithKline
• An IVG fund on the acquisition of 30 St Mary Axe (the 'Gherkin') in a joint venture with Evans Randall
• The consortium intending to develop the UK MRCI at the former British Library site at St Pancras
• Big Yellow Group plc on its conversion to REIT status
• BP on an exchange of North Sea gas interests with British Gas

Education:

University College Durham, BA English (1st), 1984. College of Law Guildford, CPE/LSF, 1986/7.