Sarah Churton
Partner, International Tax
Sarah leads KPMG’s Life Sciences Tax Team in the UK. She focuses her time almost exclusively in the life sciences sector where she has a wealth of experience advising UK and non-UK headquartered groups of varying sizes and stages of commercialisation on cross-border tax issues.
Sarah has considerable experience in advising companies on cross-border tax issues such as IP centralisation and restructuring, the UK’s response to Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS), group reorganisations, intra-group financing and Brexit. She has advised a spectrum of life sciences companies from the largest global Pharma companies to smaller biotech companies that are pre-IPO.
Previous to her role at KPMG Sarah spent over two years based in New York, providing UK tax advice and insight to US-headquartered groups.
She has been a long-standing member of HMRC’s Patent Box working group and most recently is leading KPMG’s response to the UK consultation on the taxation of intangibles.
Representative experience in the Pharma and Biotech sector