Saffery Champness promotes six to partner position
This is the second year in a row where women make up the majority of those promoted
Saffery Champness has announced that Casidhe Baleri, Seb Cartwright, Hilary Clelland, Sarah Donaghay, Kathy Johnson and Sean Watts have been promoted to partner in the firm’s Bristol, Bournemouth, London and Inverness offices.
According to the firm, this is the second year in a row where women make up the majority of those promoted.
Baleri trained and qualified at Saffery Champness in Bournemouth as a chartered accountant and later a chartered tax adviser. She is responsible for managing the office’s not-for-profit clients, providing annual compliance services as well as advising on governance and other matters.
Cartwright is based in the London corporate finance team, working on transaction support and business advisory engagements across a range of sectors. His role typically includes the provision of transaction support services, including buy side and sell side support and reporting accountant services to support capital markets transactions.
Clelland is based in Inverness, leading the delivery of corporation tax services to a diverse range of clients in and around the Highlands. She also supports clients across the UK with corporation tax compliance and advisory services in areas such as management buy-outs, employee ownership trusts, tax structuring and transaction support in relation to acquisitions and disposals.
Donaghay leads the firm’s outsourcing service line. Based in London, she has over 25 years of experience in providing tailored outsourcing solutions to clients and provides business advice based on the digital reporting delivered by her team. She specialises in clients within the music, film and sports sectors, where she provides a fully outsourced finance solution for a number of high-profile clients.
Johnson is a member of the firm’s sports and entertainment group, who has 25 years of experience advising high-profile entertainers and production companies, ensuring that they are compliant in terms of both tax and social security obligations.
Watts is a corporate tax adviser with over two decades’ experience of advising businesses and their owners on their tax affairs across a wide variety of industry sectors. Based in Bristol, Sean’s key experience includes advising on tax issues associated with acquisitions, disposals and restructuring of companies, employee incentive structures, tax aspects of debt and equity fundraisings and capital allowances.
Matthew Burton, managing partner of Saffery Champness, said: “We place a high value on our people and it is a real source of pride to see colleagues, from right across our national footprint, progress and be rightly rewarded for their contribution to our business and our clients.
“We believe strongly in ensuring everyone in our firm has equal access to opportunities and career progression, and our future leaders, including those promoted today, are a testament to the breadth and depth of talent which we have here at Saffery Champness. I would like to warmly welcome to the partnership all those recognised today and offer them my congratulations.”
