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Kyle Chandler
Senior Associate Kyle Chandler

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Personal Details

  • Position: Senior Associate
  • Practice Focus: Tax Law, Cross-Border Structuring, Regulatory & Compliance
  • Experience: 12+ Years
  • Bar Admission: England and Wales (Solicitor), 2014; Malta, 2019
  • Email: k.chandler@crownstoneadvocates.com
  • Phone: +356 8006 2306

Tax Law

Cross-Border Structuring

Regulatory & Compliance

achievements

Honors & Achievements

  • Rising Star – International Tax Review (2023)

track record

Notable Matters

  • Restructured a UK-headquartered group's Malta-UAE holding chain ahead of the UAE's corporate tax introduction, preserving the group's effective tax rate under the new regime.

background

Professional Background

Kyle Chandler joined Crownstone Advocates after several years advising multinational groups on cross-border tax structuring in London, requalifying in Malta to bring that experience directly into the firm's tax and structuring practice. He advises corporate and private clients on the Malta-UAE double taxation agreement, Malta's corporate tax refund system, and UAE free zone tax incentive planning.

Having requalified from an England and Wales practice into a Maltese one, he now mentors associates on the reverse journey — helping common-law-trained lawyers understand how a Maltese structure will actually be read by a tax authority or a court in a jurisdiction neither trained in growing up. That dual fluency is also why his structuring advice always ships with a written implementation timeline rather than a verbal sequencing recommendation a client is expected to remember.

qualifications

Education & Qualifications

  • LLM in International Tax Law, Queen Mary University of London (2015)
  • LLB, University of Bristol (2013)
  • England and Wales (Solicitor), 2014; Malta, 2019

insights

Recent Publications

  • Sequencing Cross-Border Structures Under the Malta-UAE Double Taxation Agreement, International Tax Review (2023)

how Kyle works

Approach to Client Work

Kyle's structuring recommendations are built around sequencing, not just outcome — the order in which a holding company is incorporated, a tax residency certificate obtained, and a first transaction executed can change a structure's entire tax result, and he documents that order in writing so a client's own accountant or a second adviser can follow the logic without needing it explained twice.