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Greg Elliott joins CLSA in April as their new Group Head of Tax. He succeeds Michel Velten who has moved on to Deloitte. Greg has spent the past 13 years with Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong and [...]

Michael Velten, a highly regarded financial services tax expert in Asia, has accepted an offer to join Deloitte. He will be based in the Firm’s Singapore office but operate throughout South [...]

Lupton Fawcett Lee & Priestley, the Leeds and Sheffield based commercial law firm, has announced the appointment of a new Director to head its Tax division. Melanie List, who joins from [...]

Mayer Brown has appointed Sandy Bhogal as the new head of the Tax group in London. Sandy, who has significant experience in corporate tax planning, as well as the development of domestic and [...]

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has appointed David Haworth as head of its London tax practice. Beginning a three year term he succeeds partner Sarah Falk< David works with UK and foreign based [...]

Mark Kleinman, City Editor at Sky News reported today as follows: HSBC is to recruit a line-up of heavyweight figures including Britain’s former top taxman to oversee a new effort to combat [...]

David Smith has moved from International Power to Balfour Beatty, as of this month. David trained with Arthur Andersen (actually he and I were 2 of 4 tax scholars who joined the Firm at the age [...]

Zahir Nathani joined PKF East Africa as Tax Director this month. Zahir will be based from Nairobi. Zahir, who trained in tax in the UK, moved to Africa in 2007 when he joined PwC Zambia. After 3 [...]

The Australian Government has announced the appointment of Mr Chris Jordan as Commissioner of Taxation. He will be appointed for a seven-year period and will start in the position in January [...]

Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) Taxand UK, the independent tax advisory firm, announced last week that it has strengthened its senior team with the appointment of Managing Director Stephen Labrum [...]