Steffan Adfeldt leaves Barclays for BDO

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Steffan Adfeldt leaves Barclays for BDO

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Steffan Adfeldt has left Barclays to join BDO in the UK as a tax director in the firm’s financial services group.

At Barclays, Adfeldt was responsible for all tax aspects of group treasury matters, including funding, hedging and prudential regulatory reform. Before this he worked within Barclays Investment Banking division (formerly Barclays Capital), advising on the tax aspects of investment banking transactions, and also previously as a tax lawyer at Allen & Overy and Baker & McKenzie.

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