CBW expands tax team in London

February 09 2016

Carter Backer Winter (CBW), London accountants, tax and business advisers, has taken on Lawrence Adair as a consultant for the tax department in London.

Adair has more than 20 years’ experience working in tax, he specialises in the areas of inheritance tax and capital gains tax planning, share valuations and stamp duty land tax issues.

Before joining CBW, Adair worked for Springfords and Mazars in Edinburgh.

He moved to London in 2013 to join Gabelle, where he worked as a tax consultant.

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