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Grant Thornton has announced a raft of senior hires and internal promotions including four new partners and three new directors.
Most notably Antoinette Quinlan has joined the firm as partner in its Innovation Tax team.
She has over twenty years’ experience advising clients around research and development (R&D) tax incentives and government funding for innovation.
Her new role will be focused on supporting large corporate and multinational businesses in accessing R&D tax incentives for their innovation programmes.
Chris Macdonald has also joined the firm as partner to lead the firm’s Private Capital Tax team in London.
He will be responsible for providing corporate tax advice to both private and private equity-owned businesses in the capital and continuing to grow the firm’s leading team of tax experts in London.
Jack Newton, who joined the firm as a graduate in 2006, has been promoted to tax partner in the Milton Keynes Office.
Alongside this, Colin Park, based in the firm’s Glasgow office, has also been promoted to partner.
Along with four new partners, the firm has also made several new director promotions within its tax offering.
Michelle Perry in Birmingham, Cristina Pavel in Glasgow and Michael Cooper in Southampton have all been promoted to director.
Hazel Platt, head of tax, Grant Thornton UK LLP, said: “We’re thrilled to welcome Antoinette, Chris, Jack and Colin to the firm’s Partner group and congratulate our three new Directors on their well-deserved promotions.
“The investment in our tax team’s senior leadership demonstrates the firm’s commitment to growing our already extensive practice and investing where needed to support our growth journey.”
She added: “We’re committed to both attracting new talent to the firm but also recognising the brilliant talent we already have within the team and investing in their careers as we look to grow. Five senior internal promotions demonstrate our commitment to supporting the fulfilling careers that people can achieve at the firm as we have individuals now joining the partnership who first started their careers with us as trainees.
“These significant investments in our tax team will strengthen our existing offering to clients and put us in a strong position for further growth, broadening the specialist support and advice that we can provide our varied and dynamic client base across the UK.”
