AlixPartners Grows its Forensic Accounting Practice in London
London (16th April 07) – AlixPartners, the international corporate turnaround, performance improvement and financial advisory firm, today announces the expansion of its competition-related services with the appointment of Kate Elliott as a Director in its London office. Ms Elliott will provide services such as Monitoring Trustee on merger cases as part of the firm’s growing forensic accounting practice, which provides litigation support and investigative services to the legal and regulatory markets.
Ms. Elliott has more than 12 years of experience as a forensic accountant, and over the last 6 years has specialised in the competition field, acting as independent Monitoring Trustee on several cross-border merger cases and reporting to the European Commission, Federal Trade Commission and Office of Fair Trading. She has assisted clients in responding to competition inquiries, most recently in the financial sector. Prior to joining AlixPartners, she held the position of Director of Competition Services in KPMG’s Forensic Practice in London.
Martin Hall, a Managing Director in the London office of AlixPartners, says, “This appointment will help to broaden the scope of the competition-related services that we can offer our clients, adding new areas of expertise to our proven track record of assessing damages following alleged breaches of competition law.”
Ms. Elliott graduated with a BA honours degree in accountancy studies from the University of Exeter. She is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
About AlixPartners
AlixPartners is a global performance improvement, corporate turnaround and financial advisory services firm. The AlixPartners’ “one-stop-shop” suite of services range from operational performance improvement and financial restructuring across all major corporate disciplines (manufacturing, supply chain, IT, and sales and marketing), to financial advisory services (financial reporting, corporate governance and investigations), to technology-enabled restructuring and claims management. Headquartered in Southfield, Michigan, the firm has more than 600 employees in Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Düsseldorf, London, Los Angeles, Milan, Munich, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Shanghai, and Tokyo. It is on the Web at www.alixpartners.com.
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