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BDO LLP is the world’s fifth largest accountancy firm and has 15 offices in the UK with 220 partners and 3,000 staff. David is a tax partner heading up the firm’s specialist team advising on tax efficient investments and particularly the EIS and VCT schemes. David co-authored the Tolleys/Tottel book Venture Capital Taxes” and wrote the “Plus Markets (previously Ofex) Tax Guide”. David represents the CBI on the Tax Law Re-write project in relation to the EIS and VCT tax legislation. David’s clients include company’s raising finance (particularly those floating on AIM), individuals seeking to benefit from tax reliefs and investment banks and other product providers who are raising funds. David splits his time between BDO’s Reading and London offices.”

Advisers are all alike, right? Well no, they’re not.

At Cooper Parry we fly in the face of convention. If others zig, we zag. If they go down the straight and narrow, we scan far and wide.

We look to ‘Disrupt, Lead and Make Life Count’. This is how we see the world, and it’s why we’ve been hailed ‘the rebels of accountancy’. We build relationships with our clients that break the mould. And we’re never afraid to give our opinion. Why? Because that’s how we’ll help you to flourish financially, and free up your time to get the most out of life.

Our award-winning team is alive with vibrant, inquisitive and engaged people. It means that we attract the most talented people to work on our clients’ businesses.

That’s why we’re smashing in London, the Midlands, and Bristol. The vision is reality.

• Finalist Best EIS Tax Advisor at the 2022 EISA Awards;
• Best EIS Tax Advisor at the 2021 EISA Awards;
• Highly Commended 2016-2019 EISA Awards inclusive.

The CT team is genuinely passionate about helping high-growth companies and their investors. We have a 100% track record with HMRC in the last year, including reversing many EIS disqualifications inherited from other advisors.

Our service has evolved to grow the EIS market, encompassing tax, structuring, accounting, software, grant audits and financing. Our legal partner tax service provides the EIS advice for companies in the legal market, our outreach pro-bono services to female angels promotes greater investor diversity, our social media channels advocate the EIS scheme to a wide audience spectrum.

The CT Entrepreneurial Tax Team, established 10 years ago, has grown to be the largest we know of in the UK. As the only EIS-focussed team based outside of the Golden Triangle, have built a unique reputation in the EIS space advising dozens of companies/ investors across the whole of the UK and foreign companies looking to invest in UK companies. These factors resulted in a 45% growth in our services in 2021/ 2022. With offices in Edinburgh, London, Inverness and Glasgow, we not only work with partner firms in the UK, but also from across the globe offering a truly international service for ambitious, like-minded clients.