Neil Brydges

Principal

Accredited Specialist in Tax Law

+61 407 821 157
+61 3 9611 0176
nbrydges@sladen.com.au

LinkedIn: NeilBrydges

Neil is a Principal in the business law area, with a particular focus on taxation advice and disputes.

Taxation law is a complex area. Neil’s aim is to provide technical expertise to clients, commercially applied and in a friendly and approachable manner.

Neil’s practice involves advice, audits, disputes, and transactions. The client mix includes both family groups and business enterprises. Neil also regularly assists professional advisors, including tax agents, accountants, and financial advisors, to understand complex legal issues and help them to better assist their own clients.

Neil is a Chartered Tax Advisor with The Tax Institute and accredited as a specialist in taxation law with the Law Institute of Victoria.

Since 2019 Neil has been named one of Australia’s “Best Lawyers of the Year” in the practice of tax law. Neil has also recognised in Doyles Guide as a recommended tax lawyer since 2021.

Neil’s areas of practice include:

  • company and international taxation;

  • mergers and acquisitions;

  • captial gains tax;

  • Division 7A;

  • trusts and deceased estates;

  • family trust arrangements;

  • taxation of family law settlement arrangements;

  • cross-border financing;

  • inbound and outbound investment;

  • foreign currency transactions and the taxation of financial arrangements; and

  • goods and services tax (GST).

Neil participates in tax policy, advocacy, and reform through his roles with the following organisations:

  • Member of the Tax Committee of the Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia

  • Member of the Law Institute of Victoria’s Taxation and Revenue Law Committee

  • Member of the Law Institute of Victoria’s Tax Law Specialisation Committee

  • Member of The Tax Institute’s Dispute Resolution Tax Committee

  • Member of STEP Australia

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
— Aristotle

Neil has again been acknowledged for his remarkable efforts in the 2024 & 2025 Best Lawyers in the field of Tax Law. Also, Neil’s fifth year of recognition.

 

Neil was listed as Leading in the 2023 listing of leading Victorian Tax Lawyers. The 2023 listing of leading Victorian Tax Lawyers details solicitors practising in taxation advisory and disputes matters in the Victorian legal market who have been identified by clients and peers for their expertise in the area. This is Neil’s second year being recognised as Leading and in 2021 he was listed as recommended.