Brodies makes corporate tax partner hire

Brodies has made a lateral hire of Karen Davidson as a partner in its Corporate Tax & Incentives team.

After training and practising as a lawyer specialising in mergers and acquisitions, Ms Davidson turned her focus to tax two years after qualifying. She moves from EY (Ernst & Young), where she has spent the last two years as a director, latterly concentrating on incentives work. Prior to that she worked for 19 years with Pinsent Masons, latterly as legal director on tax and share plan matters.

Based predominantly out of Brodies’ Glasgow office, she will cover a wide range of business taxation matters as well as continuing to work on incentives across a number of sectors including oil and gas, private equity, real estate and construction. Her appointment brings the specialist Corporate Tax & Incentives team at Brodies to eight.

Brodies’ managing partner, Nick Scott commented: “Our clients tell us that they are going to be busy with transactional work. We are pleased that they will be able to benefit from Karen’s considerable expertise in an area that continues to change and where tax divergence is a key theme both here in Scotland and the wider UK. This is the right time to be scaling up our practice. We look forward to welcoming Karen to the firm.”