People: KPMG hires senior manager; CWA promotes engineers to associate director roles

Professional services firm KPMG has hired Tom Swain to further strengthen its Business Structuring and Transactions team in the Midlands.

Swain joins the firm’s Birmingham office as a Senior Manager from DLA Piper, bringing more than 10 years of transactional business structuring experience, after working in the law firm’s Finance, Projects and Restructuring group.

At KPMG, he will be responsible for advising clients on a full range of transactional matters, complementing the firm’s business structuring and transactions offering.

This latest hire follows Peter Workman who joined KPMG in March as a Partner from PwC, where he led the firm’s Midlands corporate legal practice and flexible lawyer offering. Peter now leads a team of ten business structuring and transactions lawyers in KPMG’s Midlands Legal Services hub, complementing the firm’s existing legal practices across the UK.

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Fast growing civil and structural engineering consultancy CWA Ltd has promoted four of its associate engineers to associate directors as its order book continues to expand.

The Birmingham-based consultancy has promoted Matthew Hughes, Andrew Godbar, Andrew Hardy and Matt Endacott to associate director status.

CWA director Steve Wedge said the consultancy was expanding rapidly
across all sectors with a wide range of projects, and putting good, senior
people in place was part of the consultancy’s growth strategy.

“These four have proved themselves to be associate engineers of the highest
calibre while they have been at CWA, to the benefit of our wide range of high
profile and blue chip clients,” he said.