All forms of corporate and personal tax, including company reconstructions and demergers, return of capital to shareholders, substantial shareholdings, entrepreneurs relief, corporate debt, SDLT, stamp duty and SDRT.. Particular specialism in the taxation of insolvent companies, including liquidations, administrations, administrative receiverships and bankruptcy of individuals.
Called 1986, Middle Temple; 1986-87 pupillage; 1987 Paisner & Co; 1989 Allen & Overy; 1993 Coopers & Lybrand; 1996 Deloitte & Touche LLP; partner 1999; Temple Tax Chambers 2007. Publications of note include: ‘Tax Indemnities and Warrenties’ (Bloomsbury 3rd ed); contributor Lightman & Moss ‘Law of Administrators and Administrative Receivers of Companies’; contributor Totty & Moss ‘Insolvency’; ‘Editorial Board’; ‘Insolvency Intelligence’.
Addington Society; CIOT Corporate taxes sub-committee; Stamp Tax Practitioners Group; Revenue Bar Association.
City School, Sheffield; City of London Polytechnic (1984 BA); Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge (1985 LLM); Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation; Joint Insolvency Examination Board Exams 2007.