Adrian Shipwright

Call date: 1993

Barrister & Joint Head of Addington Chambers, Adrian is a highly regarded advisor with broad experience across a range of sectors and businesses. He has particular expertise in large corporate transactions and restructuring, land development, trusts, and estates, especially intangibles, as well as celebrity and HINWI tax and cross-border matters.

Adrian has had a varied career in tax as a partner in two City law firms, a tenant for many years at Pump Court Tax Chambers, and an academic at Oxford and Professor of Business Law at King’s College, London. For 13 years he was a judge of the First Tier Tax Tribunal and of the Upper Tier Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber).

He is adept at advising on financial, tax and compliance matters, underpinned with shrewd commercial understanding through extensive work with private, public and third sectors. He is often used for innovative solutions to one-off problems.

Adrian is the author of numerous books publications on tax and related matters and has lectured extensively both on tax and other issues.

Having been to school in France, he is fluent in French and also speaks good conversational Swedish and passable German and Italian.

Christ Church, Oxford

BA, BCL (1st), MA