The Business Exchange Swindon & Wiltshire Edition 38: Aug/Sept 2018 | Page 8

APPOINTED
SENIOR ACCOUNTANT JOINS Double promotion at
SWINDON PRACTICE
Royds Withy King
Accountant Nathan Pound has joined the team at Haines
Watts Swindon as an accounts senior.
The 25-year-old has recently started at the Old Town firm
of chartered accountants and business advisors to expand
his skills and experience after working with another practice
in the town.
Nathan said: “It’s been great to join such a supportive and
welcoming team. I’ve spent a lot of time previously looking
at personal tax and now I’m looking forward to broadening
my skills and experience across a whole range of financial
support for successful SMEs in Swindon and elsewhere.”
Mike Lloyd, managing partner of Haines Watts Swindon,
added: “We can already see that Nathan is going to be a
great asset to our team and through the experience he gains
here together with the study support he will receive, I have
no doubts that he is going to shine .”
RSM welcomes new
partner in Swindon
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Malcolm Gregory, lead partner in
the Swindon office of Royds Withy
King, said: “We are delighted to
announce Samantha’s and Greg’s
promotions to partner which is a
well-deserved recognition of their
hard work and dedication to their
clients, colleagues and the wider
firm.”
in Swindon. The town is currently THRINGS’ TRAINEE BECOMES
JUNIOR LAW SOCIETY CHAIR
seeing investment and growth
virtually unprecedented since the
original arrival of the railway. This
is opening up huge possibilities for
the region’s businesses as well as
for the entrepreneurs and investors
behind them. Helping those
businesses to capitalise on these
new opportunities provides an ideal
challenge for the next stage of my
career.” Scott Robins, a trainee solicitor at
local law firm Thrings has been
appointed chair of the Junior Lawyer
Division of the Gloucestershire and
Wiltshire Law Society (GWILS). Scott
will be responsible for engaging higher
numbers of junior legal practitioners in
the regional organisation.
GWILS provides academic and
practical support to solicitors, trainees,
paralegals, legal secretaries and legal
executives, offering a packed agenda
of high-value events designed to share
industry know-how and build links with
legal professionals. Members also
benefit from the society’s online forum
where legal updates, job opportunities
and details of local events are shared.
THE BUSINESS EXCHANGE 2018
Leading audit, tax and consulting
firm RSM has announced the
appointment of experienced partner
Paul Baldwin.
Paul joins the Swindon team as a
corporation tax professional, having
worked in senior roles within the Big
Four and specialist firms for over
20 years.
Paul has advised businesses
on financing, restructuring and
investment, as well as compliance,
since 1996.
In his new role, Paul will have
responsibility for building and
developing RSM’s corporate tax
team and growing the firm’s
corporate tax business locally, in
addition to supporting clients to
achieve their business goals.
Paul said: “This is a very exciting
time to be joining RSM’s practice
Law firm Royds Withy King has
announced its annual promotions
with two of its solicitors being made
up to partner in the Swindon office.
The new partners are Samantha
O’Sullivan who is a private client
lawyer and heads up the firm’s
Charities & Not-For-Profit sector
group, and Greg Callard, a real
estate specialist.