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Meet our specialist professional practices group Louis Baker, Head of Professional Practices Group Louis is our lead partnership tax partner. He chairs Horwath Clark Whitehill's Supervisory Board and heads up our national Professional Practices Group and Private Client tax department in the London office. He is also responsible for the firm's own tax affairs. His client work almost exclusively focuses on acting for professional service firms and their partners. These include many firms practicing as LLPs. Louis is a member of the Tax Committee of the Association of Partnership Practitioners and the personal tax committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He speaks on partnership and LLP tax matters at external conferences and is responsible for producing our 'Partner Briefing' updates on tax matters affecting partners in professional firms. David Furst, Partner David Furst is Chairman of Horwath Clark Whitehill. He is also a member of the Board of Crowe Horwath International. Until April 2004 he was the firm’s Chief Executive and before that Finance Partner. He was a founding committee member of The Association of Partnership Practitioners and currently a member of its Multi-Disciplinary Practice subcommittee. Steve Gale, Partner Steve Gale is an accounts and assurance partner with a principal specialism in professional practices and, particularly, limited liability partnerships. Steve's clients include major firms of accountants, lawyers, surveyors and patent agents. He is a member of the Steering Committee for the Statement of Recommended Practice 'Accounting by Limited Liability Partnerships' and produced the Accounting Digest on LLPs published by the Institute of Chartered Accountants. He has advised on a number of conversions of partnerships to LLP, dealing particularly with the accounting implications and their impact on LLP agreements. Steve is co-author of "Alcock, Birds and Gale on the Companies Act 2006", published by Jordans in 2009.
Find out more about our Professional Practices group's publications by viewing our publications section.
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