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The ‘outstanding, full-service’ team at Baker & McKenzie LLP benefits from the firm’s excellent global links, and provides fully integrated customs and excise advice to a range of multinational and UK-based clients. Practice head Ross Denton focuses on the public regulation of international trade, customs, and export controls and sanctions.

The ‘highly proficient’ team at Irwin Mitchell LLP is ‘pre-eminent’ in the field, and has strength in tax investigations involving a criminal element. Areas of note include investigations into football club transfers and tax fraud, and offshore tax fraud. Practice head Maurice Martin is valued for his ‘years of experience’, and has an ‘excellent relationship with senior staff of HMRC’. Sarah Wallace and Kevin Robinson are also key figures.

The ‘outstanding’ team at Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP acts on direct and indirect tax investigations, and a variety of customs and excise infractions. Key clients include corporates and high-net-worth individuals subject to HMRC inquiries and procedures. The team also advises individuals on the Revenue’s success in gaining access to information about offshore accounts. The ‘immensely experienced’ Monty Raphael QC and Sarah Gabriel are recommended.

BCL Burton Copeland has a ‘growing’ profile in customs and excise matters, and is notable for its expertise in fraud and other cases with a criminal dimension. The ‘highly competent’ Harry Travers delivers ‘imaginative solutions’ to clients’ needs, and is widely respected in the area.

Crowell & Moring’s team is led by Gerallt Owen and specialises in representing clients in high-net worth tax avoidance, tax evasion and money laundering investigations. It has been instructed by 70 claimants in proceedings against HMRC for non-payment of compound interest on VAT overpayments. The high-profile Peter Kiernan left the firm in 2010, while Alan Gourley has joined.

DLA Piper UK LLP’s ‘very knowledgeable and commercially minded’ group assists key clients such as Kraft Foods Europe, Diageo, and The Boeing Company on a broad range of customs, trade law, and contentious tax matters. Well-respected partner Miriam Gonzales is a key figure. In a high-profile move, cross-border tax expert and global head of litigation Neil Gerrard recently left for Dechert LLP.

Eversheds LLP has a notable regulatory practice and expertise in VAT and indirect tax work. Highly regarded partner Neill Blundell has experience in white-collar crime matters and the defence of corporations in customs investigations, in addition to matters involving money laundering, cartels and price fixing.

The ‘top-notch’ team at McGrigors LLP continues to specialise in customs duty, excise duty, landfill tax, and aggregate levy matters, and has a notable niche in alcohol and brewing-related customs matters. The ‘dynamic and expanding’ team is headed by David Anderson, who has a ‘wealth of knowledge’. The ‘top-class’ James Bullock and Jason Collins are also recommended.

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