comes from a family of engineers, doctors and lawyers. Following an itinerant schooling (Queen’s College, London; United World College of S.E. Asia and Raffles Junior College, Singapore), she returned to London to read Law at the LSE. While there, she discovered a passion for Tax Law and carried this through to her Masters.

She was called to the Bar in 1994 and came to Gray’s Inn Tax Chambers as a pupil. During her pupillage, she spent extensive periods with Andrew Park QC (later Park J.) and David Goldberg QC, from whom she learnt a plethora of jokes (and some Tax Law). She became a member in 1996.

In common with the other juniors in Chambers, she undertakes all aspects of revenue work, but regards Tax Planning for Non-Domiciliaries, Company/Commerical work and litigation as her particular specialities.

She contributes to Mellows: Taxation of Executors and Trustees (chapter on “Trusts with a Foreign Element”) and is currently involved in writing the next edition of McCutcheon on Inheritance Tax. Aparna has co-authored the next edition of “Offshore Business Centres” with Milton Grundy, which is due for publication in May 2008. She is also a regular contributor to technical journals.

She is a member of two CIOT Sub-Committees and of the Addington Society. She became a member of the Worshipful Company of Tax Advisers in 2008.

She has been called a “feisty cross-examiner” by Chambers and Partners and as someone who fights points “fearlessly and fluently” by the Legal 500.

For several years Aparna taught tax and insolvency law to University of London post-graduates.

Away from Chambers, she takes a keen interest in Indian Classical Music and Dance, having been trained in the latter discipline for 6 years. She is on the Education Committee of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (Institute of Indian Culture).

She is fluent in Hindi and Tamil.