Romios Gold Resources Inc. has announced that Mr. Doug Bolton has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer.
Doug obtained his CA designation in 1976. After a two-year stint with Arthur Young (now Ernst & Young) in Bermuda, Doug returned to Toronto and joined the Toronto Tax Group at Ernst & Young for one year before […]
Crescent Gold Limited, the Australian based gold exporation company, has appointed Jose Garcia Esteban to the board, taking the total number of Crescent Directors to nine.
Jose’s experience spans a number of highly technical areas including his tenure in Deutsche Bank’s Structured Capital Markets Group where he specialised in structured finance and tax optimisation for […]
Wyeth announced yesterday the promotion of Mary Katherine Wold, 54, as Senior Vice President, Finance, Wyeth. She will report to Greg Norden, Wyeth’s new Chief Financial Officer.
Ms. Wold joined Wyeth as Vice President, Taxes in 2002 with responsibility for the Corporation’s worldwide tax matters. In 2005, she assumed the position of Senior Vice […]
The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, has announced the appointment of Ms. Sian M. Matthews as a member of the Canada Post Corporation board of directors for a period of four years.
Ms. Sian M. Matthews (pictured) holds a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Waterloo, a bachelor of laws […]
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has announced that Michael Wistow, who is widely regarded as one of the leading tax lawyers in the UK, will be joining the firm as Head of Tax. He is currently a partner at Clifford Chance.
Michael specialises in finance and real estate based transactions, including real estate finance, bespoke property funds, […]
Davis Polk & Wardwell today announced that Mary Conway has been elected a partner of the firm effective, July 1, 2007. Davis Polk now has 160 partners in its offices in New York, Menlo Park, Washington, D.C., London, Paris, Frankfurt, Madrid, Hong Kong, Beijing and Tokyo.
Ms. Conway is a tax lawyer concentrating in investment management […]
HSBC North America Holdings Inc. has announced the appointment of Iain Mackay as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO). He will assume his position in mid-July. Mackay succeeds Simon Penney, who retired at the end of 2006 and whose role was being filled on an interim basis by Chris Spooner, head of Group […]
Linklaters has elected Dutch tax lawyer Stef van Weeghel as a partner and employment lawyer Eunice Bruyninckx as counsel in Amsterdam, marking the launch of the firm’s Dutch tax and employment practices respectively.
Stef is widely recognised as one of the leading tax lawyers in the Netherlands. He has more than 20 years’ tax experience and […]
Reed Smith LLP, one of the 15 largest law firms in the world, has announced that Lisa Carvalho has joined its firmwide Trusts & Estates Practice. She will be resident in the firm’s Oakland office, effective immediately.
Ms. Carvalho was formerly a partner at Steefel, Levitt & Weiss in San Francisco. Her practice encompasses […]
KPMG’s Singapore office has hired Ziad Rahman as a senior manager within their specialist transfer pricing unit. Mr Rahman was formerly with the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) where he worked as a Transfer Pricing Economist.
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Geoffrey E. Secol has joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP as a partner in the tax practice in New York, the firm announced this week. Mr. Secol will help lead an interdisciplinary corporate services group for the tax, investment funds and real estate practices in the firm’s New York office.
Mr. Secol’s practice focuses […]
KPMG’s member firm in Switzerland has voted to join KPMG in the U.K. and Germany as part of the merger which will create Europe’s largest accountancy firm. The new single entity will be a member firm of KPMG International, the global network of professional service firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services.
The combined firm will […]
IMG, the world’s premier sports, entertainment and media company, has announced two key appointments in the company’s finance department.
Lisa Nadler joins the company in the role of Senior Vice President, Treasury, Tax and Risk Management, responsible for treasury, tax and risk management matters. She will be based in New York and report to Terri Santisi, […]
Kaye Scholer LLP has announced that Daniel Lewin is to join the firm as the first dedicated tax partner in its London office.
Mr Lewin’s practice covers the taxation of private investment funds as well as corporate and M&A areas of tax advice. He joins from the London office of Schulte Roth & Zabel where he […]
Miller & Chevalier Chartered today announced that Donald T. Rocen has joined the firm’s Tax Department as a Member. Rocen recently served as Deputy Chief Counsel for Operations of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Chief Counsel’s Office.
“Don’s arrival at Miller & Chevalier is very significant and an important step in our continuing strategy to […]
Eileen J. O’Connor, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Tax Division since 2001, has announced her resignation, effective the end of June. President Bush nominated Ms. O’Connor to the position on May 24, 2001, and the Senate confirmed her appointment in July of that year. As Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division, Ms. […]
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP announces that Diann L. Smith is joining the firm as counsel in its State and Local Tax Group.
Ms. Smith comes to Sutherland after serving as general counsel for the Council on State Taxation (COST), a trade association representing approximately 600 of the largest businesses operating in the United States on […]
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced recently that tax lawyer Isabelle Chauvet will join the firm’s Paris office as a partner. Previously, she was a partner at Shearman & Sterling in Paris.
Chauvet advises U.S. and French clients on the tax aspects of M&A transactions, reorganizations, structured finance deals — in particular, debt offerings in […]