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Meet our specialist professional practices group

Louis Baker, Head of Professional Practices Group
Tel:
020 7842 7161
Email: louis.baker@horwath.co.uk

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
Tel: 020 7842 7137
Email:
david.furst@horwath.co.uk

David Furst is Chairman of Horwath Clark Whitehill.  He is also a member of the Board of 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.

David’s background is in tax but his client work is now focused on the provision of strategic and management advice for professional clients.  He has provided practical advice to firms moving to LLP status and looks forward to assisting firms on the opportunities that will be afforded by the Legal Services Reforms.

David is President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and has overall responsibility for the Institute’s newly formed Advisory Boards.

 


Steve Gale, Partner
Tel:
020 7842 7262
Email:
steve.gale@horwath.co.uk

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 there impact on LLP agreements.

Steve is co-author of "Companies Act 2006 - The New Law" published by Jordans and contributes the chapters on accounting, financial reporting and auditing to Gore Browne on Companies.


 

 

Recent publications

Find out more about our Professional Practices group's publications by viewing our publications section.