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Provided by Philip Ridgway
Philip specialises in all areas of revenue law both corporate and personal, direct and indirect with special emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, demergers and reconstructions, financing, share transactions and loan relationships. He also specialises in the taxation of insolvencies including administrations, liquidations and receiverships. Clients include solicitors, accountants, insolvency practitioners and corporates.
Called to the Bar in 1986; Pupillage 1986-87; Paisner & Co 1987-89; Allen & Overy 1989-93; Coopers & Lybrand 1993-96; Deloitte 1996-
2007 (Tax Partner 1999); Temple Tax Chambers 2007-present; Visiting Lecturer Oxford University (MSc Taxation) 2017- 2021.
Revenue Bar Association; Fellow Chartered Institute of Taxation; Fellow of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals (R3); Stamp Tax Practitioners Group.
Co-author with TimSanders ‘Tax Indemnities and Warranties’ 3rd ed; Contributor to Lightman & Moss: ‘The Law of Administrators and
Receivers of Companies’ 5th ed; Contributor to Totty & Moss: ‘Insolvency’; Contributor to ‘Whiteman and Sherry on Capital Gains Tax’:
Member Editorial board LexisNexis PSL.
Born 14th September 1962 Sheffield; Educated City of London Polytechnic (BA Business Law) 1981-84; Cambridge University (LLM) 1984-
85; supports Sheffield United.
Provided by Chambers
Philip Ridgway is a corporate tax specialist with particular expertise in business reorganisations. He has particular knowledge of insolvency and income tax, but also acts in SDLT cases and is increasingly called on to advise on tax avoidance schemes.
Provided by Chambers
A man who can make a huge difference to a case.
Excellent in providing timely and concise advice.
Philip is very responsive and provides practical advice.
A man who can make a huge difference to a case.
Excellent in providing timely and concise advice.
Philip is very responsive and provides practical advice.
