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Travers Smith has announced that Simon Skinner has been appointed as new head of the firm’s tax practice with effect from 1 January 2017. Simon Skinner joined Travers Smith in 2006 and became tax [...]

Marsh & McLennan has hired Eugene Gay as Head of Tax for the Asia Pac region, with effect from August 2016. Mr Gay has extensive commercial tax experience in Asia and for the past 6 years has [...]

Lloyds Banking Group has hired financial services tax guru, Saibh Young, as Group Tax Director. Ms Young has significant FS tax experience. She initially worked with KPMG in Dublin from 1989 to [...]

Deloitte has announced that Matt Ellis is the new managing partner for tax in the UK and Switzerland. He assumes the role from Andy Hodge, who has led the practice for the past five years and is [...]

The National Bank of Abu Dhabi has hired Mahesh Lakhani as Head of Tax Management for the MENA, Europe and Americas regions. He starts this new role on Monday 1st February and will split his time [...]

Bjorn Schuurmans has joined NNS Capital as VP Corporate Affairs, Tax and Structuring. He sits within NNS Capital ( a London-based financial advisory firm) but is also General Manager of NNS [...]

Accountancy firm RSM has promoted Melanie Reed to national head of corporate tax. Her base will continue to be Bury St Edmunds. This is impressive stuff from Ms Reed, who was still a senior tax [...]

EY has announced that Lucia Hlongwane will be joining the Firm as Africa Tax Leader. She will also become a member of the Africa Executive. Lucia joins from the Barclays Africa Group where she [...]

Mark Walters has joined BDO in London as a tax partner and head of the expatriate tax service line. His role is to build and deliver bespoke advisory private client and entrepreneurial taxation [...]

Flipkart, the leading Indian ecommerce marketplace, has recruited Pramod Jain as a VP and Head of Tax. Mr Jain joins from Indus Towers, which is a $2.5bn turnover JV between Vodafone, Airtel and [...]