BDO makes a trio of new partner hires

Accountancy and business advisory firm BDO LLP continues its investment in audit quality with three new partner hires.

Paula Holland, Alan Walsh and Polina Nikolaev join BDO's audit stream with 60 years' experience between them.

Paula joins BDO's Manchester office with a focus on strengthening the firm's networks across the region. She specialises in working with listed and privately-owned businesses and has extensive experience across the professional services, manufacturing and construction sectors. She joins from KPMG.

Alan joins the firm's Birmingham office with a focus on audit quality, culture and people development. His audit experience spans across a wide range of industries including the energy and utilities sector. Alan's expertise includes working with large components of UK and overseas listed groups. He joins from PwC.

Polina joins BDO's London Audit Group and will be working to grow the US-listed businesses sector. She has extensive experience of working with both UK and US-listed businesses as well as privately-owned companies. Polina also joins from KPMG.

Anna Draper, Head of People, Culture & Purpose at BDO says: "Paula, Alan and Polina bring a wealth of experience and sector expertise to BDO. These appointments are a key part of our ongoing investment into delivering quality audits. Having the right people in place across all our offices to support audited entities through the complex areas of audit and assurance is vital."

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BDO LLP operates in 18 offices across the UK, employing 8,000 people. It has UK revenues of £1bn.

It provides Audit, Tax, Deals, and Consulting, Risk & Outsourcing services predominantly to mid-sized, entrepreneurially-spirited, high-growth businesses that are driving growth in the UK economy. BDO calls this segment of the market the UK's economic engine.

BDO LLP is the UK member firm of the BDO international network.

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The BDO global network provides business advisory services in 166 countries and territories, with more than 119,000 people working out of 1,800 offices worldwide. It has revenues of US$15bn.

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