Chambers Review
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Tax: Private Client - London (Bar)
What the Team is Known For
Strengths
They are pre-eminent among tax chambers for the breadth and depth of their tax knowledge, coupled with the ability to offer clients practical and commercially orientated advice.
Pump Court Tax Chambers has a strong set of barristers, who are able to handle complex and sophisticated matters. Its barristers have a diverse range of strengths.
The clerks have always been super helpful; they are really accommodating and go the extra mile to make sure someone is available, and they're helpful on fees.
Pump Court Tax Chambers has a wide range of barristers able to handle any matter. It also has good, proactive clerks.
The clerking at Pump Court Tax Chambers is very good. They've always been extremely helpful and responsive.
Notable practitioners
Emma Chamberlain personifies excellence.
Emma Chamberlain is an outstanding tax adviser: practical and creative and gives a quick response.
Emma is the go-to person for complex Business Property Relief cases and provides a commercial and strategic approach. She doesn't just give you the answer you want to hear but is incredibly tenacious.
Emma Chamberlain is simply excellent. There is no better barrister in their field. She has a great deal of commercial acumen and is practical.
Kevin Prosser has good commercial awareness and vision, and is excellent at approaching complex matters.
Kevin Prosser is easy to deal with and very reassuring in terms of advice and guidance.
Kevin Prosser is one of the top tax barristers in the UK. Extremely bright and creative.
William Massey KC is absolutely top of his game for his practice areas
William Massey's attention to detail and strategy is first rate - he is certainly the guy you want in your corner.
William Massey KC is well known for landed estates related tax matters. We love working with him, he has helped us with complex tax matters over a long period of time.
David Ewart is one of the leading tax silks at the Bar today.
David Ewart gave excellent, commercial advice to our clients and helped us to deal with a difficult issue.
David thought about issues that weren't brought forward before: a respectful, helpful and authoritative colleague whom it is hard not to be impressed by.
Richard is incredibly smart, knowledgeable and quick.
Richard Vallat KC is excellent: extremely bright, grasps all the issues and responds quickly.
Richard's advice was clear, well structured, practical and commercially minded.
Barbara Belgrano is a highly regarded tax junior with a broad practice in Revenue work. Belgrano is often instructed on complex tax avoidance scheme cases and other matters involving the anti-avoidance provisions.
Barbara Belgrano has strong technical knowledge and is very responsive.
Barbara Belgrano is so impressive and has been a helpful and inspiring leader on the matters on which I have worked with her; she is formidably intelligent as well as being friendly and thoughtful.
Barbara Belgrano is formidably intelligent, eloquent and excellent at formulating and communicating arguments. She has been an inspiring and thoughtful leader.
Barbara is modest but quietly brilliant; she gets a problem and wrestles with it until she finds the answer. She is very clever, has a good client manner, can lower tension levels and a great writer.
Ben is great; he's one of the go-to juniors. He works really hard, and his level of experience and the types of cases he has done relative to his level of seniority are very good.
Ben Elliott is a fantastic all-round barrister and good guy. Technically brilliant and very hard-working.
Ben is a superb tax lawyer and has a very approachable, friendly and open manner with both clients and those instructing him, which is much appreciated.
He has a wonderful grasp of the legislation and its practical application. David has an assured way of advising. I was struck by how clear his thought process was and what he said made so much sense.
In all matters, David is highly expert and attentive to clients' needs and desires.
David Yates is remarkably clever, homes in on key points unerringly, delivers helpful advice - often with wit. Also a brilliant advocate. Just outstanding.
Elizabeth Wilson KC is recognised as a go-to barrister for sophisticated tax matters. Wilson is a particular expert in inheritance tax reliefs and capital gains tax planning.
Elizabeth Wilson KC really is amazing at distilling very complicated technical legal advice into bitesize, user-friendly advice. She is really personable and also very good at turnaround as well.
Elizabeth Wilson is very capable, straightforward and reassuring.
Elizabeth Wilson was very diligent in her approach to the issues. She covered and dealt with them all quite clearly.
James is a class act - incredibly bright, but also polished, charming and good at explaining complicated concepts to lay clients, who love him. He is innovative, and incredibly detailed and thorough.
James Rivett is exceptional on both onshore and offshore tax and trust-related matters.
James is technically superb. He is great with clients - he explains complex tax issues to them and always has sensible answers to problems.
James has an easy manner and is easy to work with; he's able to have a discussion about points and will still tell you what needs to be done and why. Very good to work with and easy to get along with.
Laura Poots is very astute. She distils problems into their constituent elements and helps develop practical solutions.
Laura Poots is excellent: very clear, very responsive and practical.
All of Laura's comments were incisive and to the point. The client really rated her input, too.
Oliver is my go-to barrister for technical tax matters. He has an amazing brain and gives consideration to all of the possible issues. I could not rate him more highly.
Oliver is very clever and hard-working, with a very friendly manner. He is able to explain difficult concepts in simple terms to clients. He is very responsive and user-friendly.
Oliver Conolly delivered considered and practical advice to our client.