Appointments: Deloitte; Saffery Champness; Broder Metals
BUSINESS advisory firm Deloitte has strengthened its Yorkshire corporate finance transaction services team with the appointment of Jonathan Steed, Damian Boardman and Jeremy Thomas.
Steed joins the firm as a director from Grant Thornton, prior to that he worked for PwC and Barclays Leveraged Finance both in the North and London. He has 15 years of experience leading and delivering financial due diligence projects for corporates, private equity and other funding institutions. He has advised private equity, large corporates and other ‘transaction active’ corporates on their strategic acquisitions and disposals, including a number of inward and outward cross-border transactions. Steed has worked in the Yorkshire and North East markets for a number of years.
Boardman and Thomas both join the team as assistant managers, making the Deloitte transaction services team 16-strong across Yorkshire and the North East. Boardman is an internal recruit, who joined Deloitte in 2010 on the graduate scheme in the financial services audit practice. He qualified as ACA with the ICAEW in September 2013. Thomas joins from RSM Tenon where he qualified as ACA in September 2013 and worked in the audit practice.
The team is headed up by Matt Henderson, transactions services partner in Yorkshire.
Martin Jenkins, practice senior partner at Deloitte in Yorkshire and the North East, said: “These recruits further underline the strength of our transaction services team and reinforce our commitment to the regional market as the uplift in deals activity continues.”
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SAFFERY Champness has boosted its Yorkshire corporate tax team with the appointment of senior tax manager Justine Stalker.
Stalker was part of the corporate tax team at EY before opting to work more closely with owner managed businesses. She will head up the corporate tax team at Saffery Champness’s Harrogate office.
Martin Holden, head of office at Saffery Champness, said: “Justine’s desire to work directly with the shareholders of businesses advising on the commercial and personal implications of their decision making fits perfectly with Saffery Champness’s advisory approach.
“She has a vast amount of corporate tax expertise coupled with a real interest in the dynamics of owner managed businesses.”
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METALS stockist Broder Metals Group has appointed Dave Smith as UK sales executive.
Smith joins the UK sales team bringing with him significant sales experience gained in various industry sectors.
He started his career working for British Steel as a turner and experienced a number of secondments to other companies such as control equipment manufacturer AG Burrell in Chesterfield.
Broder Metals Group supplies nickel alloys, high tensile stainless steel, duplex, super duplex, flanges and fittings to fastener manufacturers supplying the oil & gas, marine, power generation, and automotive industries.
Broder Metals Group employs 22 people at its head office in Ecclesfield, Sheffield from where it despatches orders to customers located in 42 different countries.
