BDO has appointed three partners to its tax and audit teams. Stephanie Wilson joins from RSM (formerly Baker Tilly) where she was head of employer solutions for the south, having previously worked at Deloitte and KPMG. David I’Anson joins from Mazars, where he led the audit service line for the south region, following 18 years at PwC. Nicoletta Papademetris has been promoted to partner in BDO’s tax team. She joined the firm as a senior manager in 2007 and specialises in the private equity market and providing tax expertise to the financial services sector. 

PwC has appointed former Scottish secretary Michael Moore, to boost its senior team, advising on the devolution agenda across the UK. Moore will advise PwC’s newly launched ‘devo delivery network’, a team of over 350 local and central government experts working across PwC’s 31 UK regional offices. He is a Scottish chartered accountant and an alumnus of PwC, working in the firm’s corporate finance team before his election to the House of Commons in 1997.

Top 20 firm Kingston Smith has appointed Mahmood Ramji as a general practice partner in the Heathrow office. Ramji, who focuses mainly on advising SMEs and not-for-profit entities, has spent the past 20 years in a Big Six accounting firm.

Oxford accountancy firm Shaw Gibbs has named Clifford Brown as director and head of corporate finance.  He takes over from Peter O’Connell, who has move into the role of managing director.  Brown joins from a boutique corporate finance house, and his previous roles include financial controller and head of financial planning and analysis at Harley-Davidson Europe and senior finance positions at Thomson Reuters.

Kent accountancy practice Creaseys has promoted two team members, Lizzie Parker and Mike Foreman, to client manager and assistant client manager respectively.  Both appointments are in the corporate and business division. Parker has been at the firm since 2010, initially as a trainee, and is a chartered accountant. Also a trainee, Foreman            is a member of the AAT and a part-qualified chartered accountant, sitting his finals in July. 

Russell Brennan Keane has appointed David Gleeson as managing partner, succeeding Liam Rattigan, who was head of the firm since 2004. Gleeson became a partner of the firm in 2000 and specialises in corporate recovery and business support services.

 Scott-Moncrieff has kicked off the year by announcing a new board for their growing business, which encompasses offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Inverness, following a merger last year with Callander Colgan.  The new board, Stewart MacDonald (managing partner), Bernadette Higgins, Chris Brown, Nick Bennett and Gareth Magee, was selected from the partner group and will be responsible for the delivery of a new five-year business strategy which aims to deliver a 50% increase in income alongside substantial improvements to efficiency including major IT investments.  

EY has appointed five partners to its UK & Ireland fraud investigation and dispute services (FIDS) team. There are internal promotions for David Higginson, Melissa Myatt and Trevor Horwitz. Eoin O’Reilly has been appointed to head up the data analytics function in Ireland and Richard Abbey have been appointed to lead teams specialising in responding to complex corporate fraud and bribery cases as well as regulatory breaches across multiple jurisdictions. Abbey joins from Stroz Friedberg, a global investigations firm and was previously the global head of investigations and disputes at risk consultancy firm, Kroll.