Menzies appoints six partners to audit and deal advisory teams

Menzies has expanded its leadership team with six partner appointments across its audit, assurance and deal advisory divisions.

The promotions and hires span London, Heathrow, Leatherhead and Manchester, and follow the firm’s merger with Beever and Struthers. 

The new partners include audit and accounts partner Andrew Collier in London; audit partner Grant Lee at the Heathrow office; audit and assurance partner George Shillam in London; and audit, risk assurance and advisory partner Elizabeth Hatchman, also in London.

They also include deal advisory partner David Ellis in Leatherhead and corporate finance and deal advisory partner Dean Curtis in Manchester.

Collier joined Menzies in November 2022 as a technical director. He leads audit quality and compliance and advises teams on complex financial reporting matters. 

Collier helped secure the firm’s public interest entity auditor registration with the Financial Reporting Council during its merger with Beever and Struthers, and represented Menzies on the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales’ Technical and Practical Audit Committee.

Lee joined the firm in October 2025 after partner roles at PwC and Gerald Edelman, where he led the property sector. With more than twenty years’ experience in real estate, private equity portfolio businesses and tech firms, he has overseen regulatory, due diligence and change management projects and advised clients through periods of market volatility.

Meanwhile, Shillam arrives through the merger with Beever and Struthers, having joined that firm as a trainee in 2014. 

He leads a portfolio of not-for-profit and social housing clients, overseeing external and internal audits, consultancy work and regulatory investigations, and fronts the firm’s Homes England and Greater London Authority grant compliance work.

Hatchman also joins from Beever and Struthers, where she worked from 2010. She specialises in audit and assurance for housing associations, manages public interest entity audits, and oversees grant assurance and service charge examinations. 

Ellis joins Menzies’ Leatherhead office from Azets, where he was a Corporate Finance partner. He brings extensive experience advising business owners on acquisitions, sales and strategic transactions, including the sale of Defluo to Kanalservicegruppe (a portfolio company of Ufenau Capital Partners). He is focused on helping clients navigate transactions that shape their business and personal ambitions, and contributing to Menzies continued growth.

Curtis, based in Manchester, brings more than eighteen years’ experience and joins via the merger. 

He advises entrepreneurs and owner-managed businesses on sales, acquisitions and growth fundraising, and has worked across management buyouts, private equity and strategic transactions.

According to Menzies, the additions deepen its capacity to support complex audits, public interest entity clients and organisations operating in regulated sectors.

Simon Massey, managing partner, said: “These senior appointments mark a significant milestone in Menzies’ continued momentum. By expanding our leadership across audit and assurance, deal advisory and restructuring and insolvency, we are strengthening the depth of expertise available to our clients and accelerating the development of our Strategic Advisory offering.

“The integration of Beever and Struthers has not only broadened our national reach, it has brought exceptional leadership talent into the business – and I am delighted to see several individuals stepping into partnership roles as part of this journey.”