Pump Court Tax Chambers handles a range of complex domestic and international mandates across a range of areas including transfer pricing, double tax treaties and capital allowance disputes. Kevin Prosser KC, David Ewart KC, David Yates KC and the ‘technically proficient’ Sadiya Choudhury KC all featured in BlackRock Holdco 5 LLC v HMRC - a Court of Appeal case concerning the taxation of BlackRock's takeover of Barclays Global Investors - with Prosser also appearing before the Supreme Court in Royal Bank of Canada v HMRC, concerning the taxation of income earned from the sale of oil in the UK continental shelf. Thomas Chacko has appeared before the Court of Appeal in HFFX LLP v HMRC. Zizhen Yang acted as sole counsel in Prudential Assurance Company Ltd v HMRC, representing The Prudential Assurance Company Ltd from the First Tier Tribunal up to the Court of Appeal, and soon the Supreme Court.
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Testimonials
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- 'The clerks are very helpful, responsive and provide an excellent service, especially Bruno Antoniotti.'
- 'The clerks are extremely helpful and well-organised.'
- 'The clerks and terrific and easy to deal with.'
- 'Absolutely first class. The clerking team are incredibly experienced and responsive.'
- 'Pump Court Tax Chambers has great strength in depth. They have a number of strong choices for any tax issue.'
- 'Outstanding strength across the board. Highly recommended.'
Lawyers
Leading Silks
KCs at the very top of their field, with a long-established record of market-defining cases, and widespread endorsement from clients and peers. All silks appointed in the last two rounds are listed further below.
David Ewart KC
Rupert Baldry KC
Giles Goodfellow KC
James Rivett KC
‘James has excellent judgement. He is highly strategic in his approach to disputes and forensic in his approach to evidence. He gains the client’s trust and confidence very quickly and is always calm and considered. He is a superb litigator.’
Elizabeth Wilson KC
‘Elizabeth is a highly experienced and technically very able barrister. She is fiercely intelligent and a very persuasive advocate who is able to judge the mood of the court. She is determined to do the very best she can for her client.’
Richard Vallat KC
‘Thoughtful and innovative.’
David Yates KC
2024 Silks
KCs at the very top of their field, with a long-established record of market-defining cases, and widespread endorsement from clients and peers. All silks appointed in the last two rounds are listed further below.
Sadiya Choudhury KC
'Sadiya is a very good advocate, technically very proficient and excellent at cross-examination. Very pleasant and easy-going outside of court, and has a good court manner too.'
2025 Silks
KCs at the very top of their field, with a long-established record of market-defining cases, and widespread endorsement from clients and peers. All silks appointed in the last two rounds are listed further below.
Laura Poots KC
'Really good knowledge of law and ability to analyse in detail complex tax problems. Very measured style that comes across very persuasively.'
Leading Juniors
Leading juniors are those with significant experience of key cases, strong market recognition from both peers and clients, and are seen as future candidates for silk.
Thomas Chacko
‘Thomas is quite simply the best senior junior commercial tax barrister in the market. He has vast experience with high-value and complex tax litigation. He is able to almost instantly identify the most important technical points in arguments.’
Jeremy Woolf
Zizhen Yang
Charles Bradley
‘Charles is really good across the board, his presenting at tribunal is calm, logical and really effective – he gets the key issues across without waffle or diversion and cuts through waffle on cross-examination.’
Ben Elliott
‘Ben is a formidable advocate. He knows which arguments to focus on and always articulates them with lucidity, no matter how complex the underlying tax issues are. He is also hard working and really gets to grips with the details of the case.'
Barbara Belgrano
‘Barbara is an excellent barrister. She has a strong, confident advocacy style and an excellent client manner. A real team player. Responsive and user-friendly.'
James Henderson
Ronan Magee
‘Very clever and very engaged in the case. His meticulous attention to detail means that he picks up important points missed by the other side. Great to work with and a fine team player.’
Quinlan Windle
Quinlan has a fierce intellect and is able quickly to cut through the detail and land on the essential points in optimising case strategy.’
Laura Ruxandu
‘Laura is hugely capable. She has superb attention to detail. In any case, she always has an excellent grasp of the facts and the law. You want her on your side.’