Matt has expertise in all matters of indirect taxation, including VAT, import and customs duties, excise duties, gaming duties, as well as the interface between tax law and public law. He has appeared in tribunals and courts all the way to the Supreme Court. He is regularly instructed in complex multi-million pound, high profile cases. He has particular experience with disputes involving financial services and pensions, public law arguments, partial exemption methods, attribution and apportionment arguments, single / multiple supply issues, and classification disputes in respect of technological products.

Called 2006; Lincoln’s Inn; junior counsel to the Crown (A panel).

French.

Inns of Court School of Law (Bar Vocational Course, Outstanding (2nd highest in year)); City University (Postgraduate Diploma in Law, Distinction (2nd highest in year)); Oxford University (MPhil International Relations (2nd highest in year)), Queens’ College Cambridge (BA History, Double First).