Simon Briton

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About Simon Briton

Simon is the leading tax lawyer for technology companies, with a particular emphasis on R&D tax relief for digital businesses. Clients have called him “a fantastic resource”, “exceptionally strong both technically and commercially” and complimented his “ability to understand and clearly articulate our technology and innovation”. This draws on his experience of working with technology and telecoms businesses like Sage, Lastminute, Vodafone, BT, Intel, eBay, Yahoo. Simon is an active member of the Northern design and technology communities. Simon led Quantify’s successful Innovate UK backed knowledge transfer partnership into the use of technology to deliver professional services, changing the way professional services are delivered by using technology to focus adviser time on providing advice. With 20 years experience of providing advice on R&D tax relief Simon has a deep technical and practical knowledge of the area. Having practiced in both law and accountancy firms, Simon has an unusually broad skill set. Simon is an active presenter and regularly gives talks on both technical and non-technical topics to industry groups, tech accelerators, firms of lawyers and accountants and the Chartered Institute of Taxation. Des O’Neill, Founder of CPD Store, called Simon “unquestionably a category authority”. The Lawyer magazine called Simon something flattering, but that was a long time ago -