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• Accountants and business advisers James Cowper has strengthened its VAT team with the appointment of VAT manager Meera Raja. Raja joined James Cowper following roles with HMRC and Ryan, an American-owned VAT advisory, compliance and recovery firm. Her role within James Cowper is to review completed VAT returns and advise colleagues and clients on various issues such as penalty appeals and time-to- pay applications. Although working predominantly out of the Newbury Office, she is part of the team centred in Oxford. The firm also appointed four graduate trainees who joined the firm’s business services and VAT teams based in Reading: Vicky Davies is working in business tax; Joanne Holland, Shimik Kothari and Trisha Vithlani have joined the business services team.
• Leading law firm Manches has announced further growth of its Thames Valley legal practice. Associate Sophie Arrowsmith (second right) joins after completing her training contract with niche corporate and technology firm White & Black Legal LLP. She will be working on a broad range of matters across Manches’ IP, IT and commercial department. Associate Sabrina Furneaux-Gotch (right) joins from Foot Anstey LLP in Exeter, where she specialised in property litigation. She acts in all types of property disputes for public and private sector clients and individuals. Legal trainees also joining are Eleanor McDonagh (left), Jo Lyall (second left) and Georgina Hedges (centre), working in property, private client and family respectively.
• Voted the top graduate employer for a record- breaking ninth consecutive year, PwC welcomed 24 new graduate joiners through the doors of its Thames Valley Reading office in October. With over 650 applications received for graduate roles based in Reading alone starting this year, the aspiring accountants faced stiff competition to secure their place. The new graduates are joining the tax, assurance, consulting and advisory practices. Numbers of graduate vacancies in the consulting and financial advisory, technology and legal practices have all increased this year, showing that these are the firm’s fastest-growing areas.
• Giles Blagden, has taken over as managing partner of Hicks Baker, following Roger Hicks’ retirement in August. The commercial property consultant provides a wide range of services, throughout the Thames Valley and is also known for its research. The next edition of the Reading Development and Investment Review will be published this autumn.
• In 2012 HMRC has shifted its focus on tax and reviewed its enforcement strategies. To assist companies in negotiating this difficult area, Haines Watts' Reading office announced the appointment of Philip Mooney as a senior corporate tax adviser. He is well placed to advise clients on all aspects of corporate taxation, having previously worked at Angell Pinder. He also ran his own taxation company for several years. A Fellow of the Association of Taxation Technicians, he has 34 years experience in total in the financial sector.
THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – THAMES VALLEY – NOVEMBER 2012
www.businessmag.co.uk
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