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Cravath, Swaine & Moore has hired Andrew Needham from Willkie Farr & Gallagher. What is unusual about this appointment is that he is the first lateral partner hire in more than 60 years. [...]

Tacoma, the Czech consulting and auditing firm, has hired Dita Sulcova to lead their tax function. Dita is 33 years old and specialises in M&A, TP, international tax and financial products. [...]

Roy Ramsbottom has been elected as the new chairman of the ICAEW’s Farming and Rural Business Group . He is a senior partner with Murray Smith, based in Cheshire. Roy qualified in 1968 and [...]

The drift of senior tax professionals from Chiltern to Vantis continues. Don Mavin joins Vantis to launch a new team focussing on Customs investigations and litigation. He had been with Chiltern [...]

Interesting opportunity for a Group FD (designate) to join UTV Group over in Belfast. The role is being handled by Trevor Hinds at PwC Search & Selection.

RealNetworks, owner of RealPlayer, has announced that Michael Eggers is to be the new CFO, succeeding Roy Goodman. Eggers has been with the company since 1997. Before that he was with KPMG.

Great story coming out of New Brunswick, Canada today. NB Power, a Crown corporation, was formerly not required to pay taxes. However, in 2005 the province decided that it should act like a [...]

Berjinder Singh, formerly the chairman of the (Indian) Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), has been named as the new chairman of the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission.

Singaporean law firm, WongPartnership, has hit the limelight by luring the country’s chief legal officer from the Revenue. Yew Kwong has spent 30 years with the Inland Revenue and has been [...]

A sad story from Australia where KPMG partner, Bernard Salt, is launching his new book The Big Picture. Mr Salt is a demographer and his research indicates that the most eligible Australian [...]