Peter Nichols

Partner - Tax and Finance Specialist

Peter spent the first 15 years of his tax career as an Inspector of Taxes and as might be imagined gained considerable HMRC experience dealing with the affairs of companies and their directors as well as being engaged on a wide range of investigation work. In late 1984 he joined the KPMG private tax practice in Milton Keynes primarily advising owner managed businesses, UK subsidiaries of international companies and heading large HMRC tax investigations. Peter joined Rawlinson & Hunter in London at the back end of 1989. At R&H Peter was able to add the experience of private international taxation and trust work to his portfolio whilst continuing to advise household names on a broad range of individual and owner managed business and tax issues.
 
Peter has been a Tax Partner working in the profession since 1993.  From May 1997 he has run his own practice, the Chancery Group, which he formed with Kathryn, his wife. He includes within his adviser base clients who have remained with him since his KPMG days. Peter is heavily involved with legitimate tax mitigation schemes of all kinds including Business Premises Renovation Allowance, geared EIS using film and computer games as the underlying businesses along with other bespoke tax structures and shelters. His tax expertise is across the board and includes Personal and Corporate Tax, Capital Gains Tax, Inheritance Tax, Trusts, Property Tax and Investments, Tax Efficient Business Structures /Advice and Consultancy, Mergers, Acquisitions, Management Buy Outs / Buy Ins, Corporate Finance and Offshore Structures.
 
Peter is Chairman of Prescience Film Finance and Hindsight Media as well as a director of the Aegis Film Fund. The latter funded the ultra successful film of 2011, the Oscar winning “The King’s Speech”. Peter is also involved with numerous other titles ranging from St Trinian’s to Horrid Henry, The Guard to Conviction.
 
Peter has a Financial Services Qualification, Cert PFS, although his primary interest is in the financial services arena, it is the tax breaks that such products give and how they interact with tax planning generally and Inheritance Tax in particular.
 
Outside the office, Peter is busy with his family and five grandchildren, dogs and farm and he tries to fit in as much time as he can shooting, watching rugby and cricket.

John Fields

Partner

John’s role at Chancery is that of Managing Partner and over the last three years he has been responsible for the restructuring of the Chancery businesses you see today. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Management Accountants and has spent the majority of his working career either in a financial capacity with major multinationals, including a 10 year stint in Germany, or in Management Consulting.
 
Former employers include, The Dow Chemical Company, KPMG, Atos, Gillette and Santander. During his time in consulting John specialized in Shared Services and Company Transformations. John is a native of Lancashire, speaks fluent German, and is married with 3 children. His hobbies include various sports, reading, music and travel. 

Colin French

Partner 

Colin joined Chancery when it was formed in 1997 and started his career in Payroll, Accounts and Bookkeeping.   As the business grew and gained more clients Colin's role became solely tax based and he looked after the tax affairs of a large portfolio of Clients.

Colin spends most of his time looking after High Net Worth Individuals and advising them on various tax mitigation products and strategies.   He also spends an increasing amount of time dealing with special projects and is also involved with the management of the Chancery businesses.

Colin has his Financial Services Qualification, Dip PFS, although he only advises Clients on tax efficient products, which are used in tax planning.

Colin has a young family and enjoys shooting, fishing and watching rugby.

Helen Beaumont

Partner

Roger Eddowes

Partner

Graeme Whittall

Partner

Graeme trained and qualified with Howard Watson Smith a 4 partner firm in Bletchley where he worked for 15 years.  In 2005 he joined a multi-site motor dealership as their Financial Controller and during his time there he gained a useful insight into the actual operations and day to day running of a business.
 

In 2007 Graeme moved to Chancery (UK) LLP to take on the role of Audit Manager and in 2008 was given the role of running Chancery Hopkins LLP.  In July 2010, Graeme was promoted to Audit and Accounts Partner and has continued to develop the small business and start-ups area of the practice.
 

Outside the office Graeme is kept busy as a taxi service to his 2 teenage daughters, but when he gets the chance, enjoys playing golf and supporting Luton Town FC through thin and thinner times.
 

Matt Evans

Partner

David Gillies

Partner