Accounting, Audit & Tax Awards 2017

Acquisition International - Accounting, Audit & Tax Awards 2017 21 Junior Tax Barrister of the Year 2017 - UK Old Square Tax Chambers Old Square Tax Chambers is an elite set whose members are among the best regarded tax barristers in practice. We profile the firm and award winning tax barrister Oliver Marre. Company: Old Square Tax Chambers Website: www.taxchambers.com HF170030 Old Square Tax Chambers in Lincoln’s Inn, London is an elite set whose members are among the best regarded tax barristers in practice. They provide independent advice on all areas of tax and assistance in tax disputes of all types. Members of chambers have appeared in tax litigation from the First-tier Tribunal to the Supreme Court and CJEU. Oliver Marre, Acquisition International’s junior tax barrister of the year 2017, is a barrister at Old Square Tax Chambers. Through his role he regularly acts for taxpayers (both private clients and companies) and has been instructed by the governments of Commonwealth countries and British Overseas Territories. As well as litigating before the First-tier and Upper Tax Tribunals, Oliver has appeared in relation to tax and trusts matters in the Court of Appeal, the Chancery Division and the Family Division of the High Court and before the Central Family Court. Oliver is a member of the Revenue Bar Association and can be instructed under the Association’s Special Advocacy Scheme and Joint Advisory Scheme. He is also a member of the Chancery Bar Association, sits on its Publications Committee and is the editor of the 2017 Chancery Bar Review. He is confident as sole counsel in complex advisory matters and litigation, and has worked on some of the last year’s most exciting tax-related litigation as part of a team, often led by the silks at Old Square Tax Chambers and, on occasion, by silks elsewhere, for example in the area of public law. In order to support the wider legal market and share his knowledge and expertise, Oliver regularly contributes to the collective understanding by writing. As a former journalist he is an expert at getting his point across succinctly, and as such has written the chapters on divorce/separation and High Net Worth private client taxation for the forthcoming edition of Tolley’s Tax Planning. He is also the online moderator of The Taxation of Non-Residents and Foreign Domiciliaries by James Kessler QC. Legal 500 (2016) ranks Oliver as a leading tax barrister, with the comment: “He gives clear, detailed and carefully thought-out advice.” Moving forward his ongoing focus will be to continue to support his clients and live up to this excellent praise. “As a former journalist he is an expert at getting his point across succinctly, and as such has written the chapters on divorce/ separation and High Net Worth private client taxation for the forthcoming edition of Tolley’s Tax Planning.” Old Square Tax Chambers