Matthew Short

Partner

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What can I do for you

Matthew helps clients understand how tax impacts their transactions and affairs. He focusses on real estate and corporate taxation, regularly advising on property acquisitions, development and portfolio management, as well as corporate M&A and funds work. 

He works across multiple sectors and for a wide variety of clients, including landlords, developers, universities, financial institutions, charities, local authorities, and pension funds. 

What do others say

Matthew is consistently praised by clients for his technical analysis – but also his ability to help make difficult judgment calls.   

He is listed in The Legal 500. 

Supporting your ambitions

Matthew enjoys bringing a fresh perspective to his clients tax issues. Tax can be a confusing and complex area, and Matthew uses his years of practical experience and insight to demystify it - helping clients consider the detail, but retaining focus on their commercial objectives.  
 
Whether it be a charity considering making a complex investment, a landlord looking to re-gear a lease, or a pension fund considering a large scale development, ensuring that complex tax issues are explained properly to our clients, and that they understand the risks and issues, means Matthew can help them to achieve the best outcome. 

What else should you know?

Given his special interests in real estate and charity taxation, Matthew is a member of the Stamp Taxes Practitioners Group (a body comprising leading stamp taxes professionals as members) and an Observer Member of the Charity Tax Group. 

Outside work, Matthew is a keen cyclist, reader, traveller and guitar player. 

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What our clients say about us

“I think Mills & Reeve are a wonderful firm. The support they have provided to us in a really difficult area has been brilliant, collaborative and commercially minded. The team were absolutely wonderful and a joy to work with. Amazing advice and support and a real collaborative effort with us. I can't thank them enough for getting us through some really tough times and doing so with an amazing can-do attitude.”

“They are friendly, fast, always available and always on top of the game. I tend to judge my legal team against the other side's legal team and never doubt Mills & Reeve is the better of the two.”

“All interactions have been very clear. Responses to questions have always been very swift and unambiguous. Our company, and my family, have used various services in Mills & Reeve with the same level of satisfaction.”

“I value the fact that Mills & Reeve are recognised as a good place to work in the UK Best Companies survey. This aligns with the values of our business and means that Mills & Reeve can share what is required to achieve this status with our business.”