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Business and financial advisory firm Grant Thornton UK has promoted a new partner who will lead its insolvency and asset recovery (IAR) team across Leeds and Manchester. Russ Parkin, who joined Grant Thornton in 2011, has been promoted from director within the firm's insolvency practice, recognising expertise built over more than a decade of service. https://lnkd.in/e4GkDfNn

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BDO Risk Advisory Partner Luke Eason spoke with Accounting Times this week, urging professional services firms to review and mitigate their foreign interference risks. Luke said foreign interference could bring numerous consequences for firms, including the compromise of sensitive or competitive information, reputational damage, system interruption, workforce psychosocial impacts and the costs of investigating and remediating breaches. He said the risk of foreign interference had grown in the past few years amid heightened geopolitical tensions and the explosion of AI usage. “Accounting firms and professional services firms of all sorts hold an awful lot of confidential information about clients,” he said. “To me, it's not at all a stretch to imagine that an adversary could use a professional services provider as a step into another organisation as part of the overall surveillance information gathering.” Read the full story below. #technology #supplychain #risk

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We're delighted to have advised our longstanding client Xeinadin, a top 20 professional services practice in the UK and Ireland, on its acquisition of West Midlands accountancy firm, Bennett Whitehouse. Corporate partner Sean Lightfoot and legal director Graeme Anderson advised on the legal aspects of the deal. Bennett Whitehouse will be integrated into Xeinadin’s network of over 100 offices across the UK and Ireland while boosting the Group’s capabilities by adding specialist expertise in franchise payroll and service charge accounting. Further details here: https://lnkd.in/eThqGtuG #CorporateLaw #ProfessionalServices #Accountancy

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Arolla Partners has expanded its business as it continues to evolve in line with growing client demand for experienced, independent, and gender diverse governance professionals. https://lnkd.in/eaYQDzqX Arolla Partners Limited Rebecca Booth MSc, FCG, FRSA Hannah Hayward Lisa Barnett

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Our Partner and Head of Tax Advisory (UK North and Mids) Adam Owens has been interviewed by The Independent and has contributed to their published article today, titled: “HMRC’s new rules are stressing freelancers out – here’s what you need to know if you’re self-employed”. In this feature, Adam provides one of the clearest, most practical explanations of the upcoming Making Tax Digital changes for freelancers and landlords. Read in full: https://lnkd.in/eukKZFjh #MakingTaxDigital #MTD #Freelancers #Landlords #HMRC #TheIndependent

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JSA advised Motilal Oswal Investment Advisors Limited and Axis Capital Limited, the Book Running Lead Managers, in relation to the initial public offering of equity shares of Atlanta Electricals Limited. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dqKse_5q The JSA team was led by Partner Arka Mookerjee, with support from Equity Capital Markets team comprising of Partner Siddhartha Desai, and Senior Associate Govind Roy and Associates Prateek Khandelwal, Vaishnavi Kokkonda, Bhuvnesh Kumar and Aditya Shendye #JSA #LeadingLawyers #LeadingLawFirm #CapitalMarkets #IPO #EquityMarkets #InvestmentBanking #CorporateAdvisory

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