FRIEND LLP APPOINTS NEW PARTNER IN PRIVATE CLIENTS & PERSONAL TAX DEPARTMENT

The partners of Friend LLP have announced that Paul Preston has joined the firm as a Tax Partner, as of April 2007. He will be responsible for the firm’s expanding private client base, advising on income, inheritance and capital gains taxes, as well as other planning, trusts and compliance matters.

Paul was admitted is a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and is a qualified Chartered Accountant, winning prizes for the taxation papers. He has over thirty years’ experience in all aspects of taxation and trust advice for private clients. He was previously a tax partner at BDO Binder Hamlyn, Deloitte & Touche and latterly at Wenn Townsend, an independent practice in Oxford. Paul is a member of the Chartered Accountants Inheritance Tax Technical Committee.

Friend LLP are a leading independent regional firm of professional advisers, providing the full range of audit and business assurance, tax, corporate finance and corporate recovery advisory services to private companies and financial institutions in the UK and overseas. Further information may be found at www.friendllp.com.

For further enquiries please contact Frank Upton, Head of Friend LLP Tax