Price Bailey promotes six team members to partner
The partners have been promoted from the business team, corporate team, insolvency and recovery team, and the tax team
Price Bailey has announced the promotion of six senior team members to the firm’s partnership team from April 2023, marking its largest round of internal promotions to date.
The promotions included Gary Frear and Parry Jackson from the business team, Shaun Jordan and Tom Meeks from the corporate team, Stuart Morton from the insolvency and recovery team, and Gemma Thake from the tax team.
Frear joined the firm in May 2013 as a senior manager and was promoted to director in March 2020, having spent the last 20 years on owner-managed business with specialisms in bloodstock and agriculture.
Jackson joined in 2018, having trained with a top 50 firm in the West End before spending eight years in a small practice in Billericay, Essex. He has spent his career in both audit and small business services.
Jordan began his career at Price Bailey in 2008 where he joined the Ely office straight from his A-Levels, later moving to the Cambridge office in 2014. Since qualifying, he has become a member of the Cambridge corporate team, becoming a director in April 2021.
Meanwhile, Meeks also joined the firm in 2008 as a newly-qualified semi-senior from a small firm in Cambridge. When the Education Act 2010 was passed, things changed significantly for Tom as he became the designated audit senior for three academy trust clients in what was then, a new sector for the firm. He now heads up the firm’s academies team, having helped it grow into an offering covering 100 clients and generating £1.5m of gross recurring fees across numerous service lines.
Morton, who is a licensed insolvency practitioner that qualified in 2008, joined as a manager in 2015 and is currently an office holder in relation to over 120 live cases. He advises businesses facing financial pressure and distress across all sectors and has particular knowledge and expertise in retail, construction and manufacturing.
Finally, Thake joined the firm in 2017 as a manager in the tax team and was promoted to senior manager and director in 2019 and 2021 respectively. She started her career at Deloitte, followed by 10 years at PEM in Cambridge. She is a chartered accountant and a chartered tax adviser specialising in corporate tax.
Martin Clapson, managing director of Price Bailey, said: “I am delighted that we have six new partners joining the partnership team, reflecting the skills and talent we have across Price Bailey.
“I personally would like to congratulate them on their promotions and warmly welcome them to the team. I am always overjoyed whenever we have internal promotions to our senior management team, especially when they are partner promotions.”
