Pump Court Tax Chambers

Giles' practice covers the full range of advisory work on direct and indirect tax issues.

Particular areas of expertise cover corporate reorganisations, employee share incentive schemes, controlled foreign companies’ legislation, tax warranty and indemnity claims, professional negligence, IHT and CGT planning including BPR and APR for family-owned businesses, planning for high net worth individuals, through QNUPS onshore and offshore trusts. He also advises on and appears on behalf of clients in connection with the tax consequences of family breakdown. He has substantial experience in structuring and advising clients on the consequences of stamp duty/SDLT and NIC mitigation arrangements.

He has substantial experience and expertise in advising upon and negotiating compromises of Inland Revenue and Customs’ investigation cases.

He also sits as an accredited Mediator.

Called 1983, Middle Temple (Harmsworth Scholarship)

French.

Revenue Bar Association

London Common Law & Commercial Bar Association (Treasurer)

Professional Negligence Bar Association

Trinity College, Cambridge (M.A. in Law)

University of Virginia Law School (LLM in US Tax & Commercial Law) (1984)