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Following the Cabinet reshuffle, Philip Hammond MP remains chancellor of the exchequer, Elizabeth Truss MP attends Cabinet as chief secretary to the Treasury, Robert Jenrick MP becomes exchequer secretary to the Treasury (FST) and John Glen MP becomes economic secretary to the Treasury and City minister. Former secretary of state for pensions (and before that, FST), David Gauke MP becomes lord chancellor and secretary of state for Justice. Gauke is a former Macfarlanes lawyer and is reportedly the first solicitor to be appointed as lord chancellor.
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HMRC has made the following appointments to customer services and customer compliance groups. Angela MacDonald has been appointed director-general of HMRC‘s customer services group, which oversees most of HMRC’s
interaction with individual taxpayers, tax credits recipients, and small and mid-sized businesses online, by phone or face-to-face. Angela is currently HMRC‘s operational excellence director.
Penny Ciniewicz
has been appointed director-general of the customer compliance group, which includes compliance for all customer groups, from large businesses to individuals, as well as HMRC’s counter-avoidance and fraud investigation
functions. Penny is currently chief executive of the Valuation Office Agency (VOA).
Melissa Tatton, currently director for individuals and small business compliance, will take over as chief executive for the VOA.
All three will take up their new posts in August and September.
DLA Piper appoints Ben Brown as partner to its tax team in London as of 24 July. Brown, formerly of Allen & Overy, specialises in the taxation aspects of corporate and financing transactions, advising both UK and international clients.
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RPC promotes Robert Waterson to legal director in the firm’s tax disputes team. Waterson specialises in representing corporate and individual clients in complex tax disputes with HMRC.
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Richard Jeens is elected as a partner in Slaughter and May's dispute resolution group from 1 May. Jeens practised as a tax lawyer with the firm for five years before focusing on contentious work. He now advises on a full range of tax disputes work, from enquiries through to litigation, alongside a broader practice focusing on commercial disputes and investigations.
Law firm Osborne Clarke has continued the growth of its international private client practice with the hire of senior associate Andrew Dickson. Dickson joins from Fladgate, where he was an associate in the tax team. His arrival follows that of associate Eleanor Black in 2015. Black specialises in UK private wealth matters including personal tax, estate planning, trusts and succession. Osborne Clarke launched its international private client practice in January 2015 when partners Stuart Janaway and Andrew Goodman joined the firm.
Creaseys appoints Kyle Barford as a client manager in its private client division. Barford was a senior tax adviser at EY.
Andrew Scott, the director of business tax at HMRC's Solicitor's Office, is to join the tax disputes team at Pinsent Masons in April. Scott qualified as a corporate tax lawyer at Linklaters before joining the civil service in 1996. He has been a member of the most senior governance boards dealing with high-value tax disputes and HMRC's operational response to issues which affect a cross-section of large business taxpayers. Before joining HMRC, he drafted tax legislation at the Office of Parliamentary Counsel. Pinsent Masons also bolstered its UK tax team with appointment of insurance sector tax expert Matthew Taylor from EY.
Pure Search, the governance search and selection business, has significantly strengthened its service portfolio with the appointment of John Dixon, former tax managing partner for EY UK, to lead its new consulting practice. Pure Search Consulting will provide advisory services to professional services firms, in-house tax departments of multinational companies, and private equity houses. The initial focus will be on 'clients who are looking to achieve organisational change through aligning people with strategy, driven by increased and evolving regulation, and corporate requirements for greater transparency and compliance'.
Law firm Howard Kennedy appoints Philip Vickery as senior associate to its business and property tax team. Vickery joined the firm in March from Bishop & Sewell where he was a senior associate in its private wealth practice, advising both individuals and businesses.
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Pinsent Masons has appointed Fiona Fernie as head of tax investigations. She joins the firm from BDO.
Former Barclays tax lawyer Steffan Adfeldt has joined BDO as a tax director within the firm's financial services group in London.
West Midlands based Meridian Private Client LLP has appointed Jon Croxford to the role of partner. The chartered tax adviser, who joined Meridian in June as a director, is a specialist in personal tax planning. He is also a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), and has previously worked at KPMG and headed Deloitte’s private client tax teams in Birmingham and Nottingham.
Edward Denny (formerly of Norton Rose Fulbright) has joined law firm Orrick as a partner in the firm’s tax practice group, resident in London. Orrick is a global law firm focused on advising companies in the infrastructure, finance and tech sectors. Denny focuses on the tax aspects of corporate finance transactions and structures, in particular, mergers and acquisitions of public and private companies. He was selected in Tax Journal's '40 under 40' guide in 2012/13.
Ryan tax consultancy has opened a new office in Paris. The principal is Jean-Paul Ouaksel, who is president of the VAT commission of the MEDEF, the main professional federation defending the positions of French companies to create and maintain favourable conditions for development and competitiveness. He is also one of three French VAT experts appointed by the European Commission to be a member of the VAT expert group in Brussels.
Tax specialist Philip Simpson of Terra Firma Chambers has been appointed as Queen’s Counsel following nominations by the Lord Justice General, the Rt Hon. Lord Gill. Simpson is said to be the sole specialised tax silk practising full-time at the Scottish bar.
Capital allowances specialists Lovell Consulting has appointed Michael Edwards as a senior capital allowances consultant. Edwards has 15 years' experience within the Valuation Office providing capital allowances valuation and policy advice as internal expert to HMRC, and he previously worked with Davis Langdon as a quantity surveyor.
PwC has appointed Bradley Phillips as an asset management tax director. Phillips will focus on advising investment funds and asset managers on a range of tax issues. He has nearly 25 years of experience in tax and joins from Herbert Smith Freehills LLP where he was a tax partner mainly focussed on M&A and other corporate transactions, tax disputes and investment funds. He currently sits on the LexisNexis Tax Professional Support Lawyer (PSL) Board and was previously Chair of the City of London Law Society Revenue Law Committee.
MHA MacIntyre Hudson has strengthened its Kent tax team with the recruitment Glen Thomas, who joins as a tax partner. Thomas has a background in Big 4 and other large accountancy firms.
National law firm Irwin Mitchell has appointed former Haines Watts Partner and tax investigations specialist, Gary Clarkson as senior manager to its tax disputes team. Clarkson is described as a leading specialist in his field within the North of England and has a 20 year career with HMRC.
London-based law firm Greenberg Traurig Maher has announced the appointment, from November, of former Slaughter and May partner Graham Iversen as its head of UK tax. GTM chairman Paul Maher is reported as saying: 'Within GTM, tax has always been a big part of the firm. So in terms of our business plan for London, tax is at the core of it. We do intend to grow GTM London and the European tax practices, and Graham will be a fundamental part of that.'
Kelly Stricklin-Coutinho joins tax chambers Thirty Nine Essex Street. Stricklin-Coutinho, who joins from PwC Legal, is experienced in litigating and advising on matters with values ranging from relatively modest sums for individuals and SMEs to cases worth billions of pounds for litigation groups of multinationals.
KPMG has five new tax and pensions partners as a result of the firm’s annual round of partner promotions effective as of 1 October.They are: Jo Bateson (London, private client advisory team), ( Matt Collinson, in the pensions team in Birmingham), Vicki Heard (financial services team, Manchester), Naz Klendjian (London infrastructure tax), and Matt Whipp, in the London corporate tax team.
Taxand, which describes itself as the world’s largest global organisation of tax advisers to multinational businesses, has appointed Alain Recoules (partnew of Arsene Taxand, France) as the new leader of its global indirect tax service line.
Tim Law, formerly of Anglo American plc has formed Engaged Consulting Ltd, a boutique tax practice specialising in tax policy, strategy, governance, transparency and stakeholder engagement.
Accountancy firm BDO has appointed HMRC tax expert Jitendra Patel as a senior manager in its professional services team. Patel joins after 11 years at HMRC. He was a member of the business tax policy team that designed and implemented the 2014 changes to tax rules relating to partnerships. Prior to that, he advised in the large corporates and partnerships tax teams. His experience ranges from general company and partnership taxation matters, including international issues, to tax investigations and resolving disputes.
EY has strengthened its North West tax team with the appointment of executive director Gabrielle McParlin. McParlin, who joins following 13 years with Deloitte, will lead EY’s tax controversy & risk management offering in the region, as well as support clients nationally.
Capital allowances specialists Lovell Consulting has appointed Kirsty Palacci (formerly of KPMG and surveyors EC Harris) as a senior capital allowances consultant. Palacci is a chartered quantity surveyor with more than 15 years of capital allowances experience.
Abbey Tax Protection, the tax fee protection division of the Abbey Protection Group, has acquired Sheffield based HowarthLynch, a leading provider of R&D tax consultancy services to SME’s throughout the UK. HowarthLynch’s team of ten staff, advises over 500 clients throughout the UK. In addition to providing advice on R&D tax credits, the firm also specialises in the patent box.
Aparna Nathan and Marika Lemos, formerly of Gray’s Inn Tax Chambers, have joined the fast-growing specialist tax group at Devereux Chambers. Aparna Nathan (called 1994 and a member of the attorney general’s panel) undertakes all aspects of tax work, combining a high profile litigation practice with a strong advisory practice focusing on tax planning for high net worth individuals and commercial work. Marika Lemos (called 2002 and member of the attorney general’s panel) specialises in all aspects of tax litigation (direct and indirect taxes) and advises on tax, focusing on private client tax and in the context of commercial litigation, trust and pensions disputes, Variation of Trust Act applications and professional negligence cases where tax is involved. Other recent recruits to the Devereux tax team are Felicity Cullen QC and Barrie Akin from Gray's Inn Tax Chambers, and Jolyon Maugham from 11 New Square.
Barrie Akin leaves Gray’s Inn Tax Chambers to join Devereux Chambers.
Patrick Soares, Patrick Way QC, Philip Baker QC and Imran Afzal launched new tax chambers, Field Court Tax Chambers, on 1 August 2014.
Law firm Withers has continued the expansion of its tax disputes and investigation practice with the hire of Tessa Lorimer (former special counsel at GSC Solicitors).