Paul Davidoff has joined New Quadrant Partners as a partner from Moon Beever Solicitors. He specialises in complex tax, trust and estate planning matters including multi-jurisdictional and offshore issues, international succession planning, residence, domicile and remittance basis advice, trust creation and trust breaking. He is STEP (the Society for Trust and Estate Practitioners) qualified.

Carey Olsen Bermuda is adding to its trusts and private wealth practice with the appointment of counsel Ashley Fife. Admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales, Bermuda and Australia, Fife specialises in advising clients on the creation, management, restructuring and termination of private and commercial trusts.

Law firm Irwin Mitchell has expanded its corporate and commercial teams in London with the appointment of two new partners. Winston Green joins as a new partner in the commercial team from Sainsbury’s Bank where he had the roles of head of legal and data protection officer.  Prior to that he spent nearly 13 years at Dentons, London, in its TMT practice. Deborah Serota has joined the firm as a corporate partner. She joins from Darlingtons Solicitors LLP where she has been a partner in the corporate practice since 2012. She specialises in M&A, joint ventures, equity fundraisings and shareholder agreements.

Dominic Barton, senior partner and former global managing partner from 2009 to 2018 at McKinsey & Company, has been appointed chair of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC), the global body driving reform in company reporting. Barton will bring leading thinking on business strategy, the shift to long-term investment and the future of capitalism, to drive the IIRC’s global mission to make integrated reporting the global norm. He takes over from professor Judge Mervyn King, who will continue to undertake global advocacy for integrated reporting as chair emeritus of the IIRC.

The International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) has elected Dr In-Ki Joo of Korea as president. He will serve a two-year term through November 2020, serving previously as IFAC deputy president since November 2016. A leading academic voice in accountancy, Dr Joo is a professor, emeritus, of accounting at the Yonsei University School of Business. IFAC also named Alan Johnson as deputy president. He has more than 30 years’ experience in the public and private sector of the profession, and was recently appointed as non-executive director and chair of the audit and risk committee at the Department for International Development (DFID) in the UK. Previously, Johnson was CFO of Unilever’s global foods business, and led the company’s global internal audit function.

The International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) has restarted the search for a new chair, as Martin Baumann, who had been due to take up the position in January 2019, has decided not to assume the post for personal reasons. Professor Arnold Schilder, whose term as IAASB chair is scheduled to conclude at the end of 2018, will stay on through early 2019 to ensure a smooth transition to a new chair.