The partner promotions take BDO’s partnership to more than 450.

Thirteen people have been promoted to partner in the audit practice: Andrew Barclay, Jessica Darke, Gurpreet Dulay, Thirushen Govender, Sakib Isa, Dan Laird, Sam Lifford, Jill MacRae, Lucy Mistry, Steve Newberry, Neel Shastri, Nicola Small, Alex Stansbury and Eran Wieder.

Daisy Boughtflower, Martin Callaghan, Vincent Walker and Catherine Whitelam have been promoted to partner in the tax team.

The advisory team has 11 new partners, across the business restructuring, business services and outsourcing, forensic accounting services, and M&A teams. James Adams, Rosie Barnes, James Fieldhouse, Paul Gilbert, Clare Hawthorn, Kiri Holland, Sasha Molodtsov, Brian O’Connell, Amar Patel, Mark Spencer and John Strowger have all received promotions.

Dan Francis in the IT, digital and innovation team has also been promoted to partner.

Over a third (36.6%) of the partner promotions are in regions outside of London, and over two fifths (43%) work in the firm’s audit practice.

Paul Eagland, managing partner at BDO, said: ‘Recognising the talent and efforts of our people and celebrating success is incredibly important to us, and I want to extend my congratulations to every person within the firm who has been promoted.

‘Each of our 30 new partners should be commended on their commitment to supporting the businesses we work with, finding solutions to challenges and driving the growth of BDO.

‘During a time when UK businesses are facing numerous complex challenges, they have demonstrated excellent leadership skills. 

‘Becoming a partner is a rigorous but rewarding process and our new partners should be incredibly proud of this achievement.’

In addition to the partner promotions, BDO has promoted more than 1,200 people in its audit practice, 560 in advisory, over 330 in its tax team and a further 164 across its support functions. Just under half of the promotions are based in regions outside of London.