KPMG appoints Leeds partner to national role
THE head of KPMG’s Northern private client team has become the first partner outside London to head its national practice.
Dermot Callinan will lead a team of 150 personal tax professionals across the UK advising wealth individuals, high earning executives and others on their tax and inheritance planning.
He has spent most of his career with KPMG having specialised in private client tax and wealth advice since starting practice in 1985.
Mr Callinan said: “I am delighted to take on the national leadership role but am going to do it from Leeds and I am totally committed to remaining here and to servicing our clients in Yorkshire. I have gained this opportunity because of the superb support I have from the Leeds private client team.
“KPMG’s UK private client practice now acts for clients with collective wealth of about £20bn. Our ambitious further growth plans are focused on both the domestic and international markets for our services.
“This is a time of significant change to the UK tax regime; entrepreneurial activity is being encouraged by an extended entrepreneurs’ relief for capital gains tax and lower corporation tax rates, while higher rates of personal tax are being introduced in response to the fiscal deficit. And I foresee further, dramatic, developments on the horizon, linked to the government’s new approach to tax policy making and possible changes to anti-avoidance rules.”
KPMG has also announced the recruitment of counsultant Aniella Bodnar to the Leeds team from a competitor in London while Hannah Cridland and James Morton have been promoted to manager and consultant respectively.
