Grant Thornton UAE appoints ten new partners

Grant Thornton UAE has appointed 10 caller partners to grow its elder enactment squad successful the country.

The appointments span cardinal work lines including advisory, audit, integer forensics, fiscal owed diligence, forensics, people, and hazard and compliance.

According to a property merchandise published connected Zawya, the caller partners are Ahmed Afify, audit partner; Ahmad Chit, forensics partner; Chris Quinn, audit partner; Hani Zeidan, audit partner; Haris Saigal, audit partner; Rajeev Patel, fiscal owed diligence partner; and Sameer Abdi, spouse and caput of advisory.

The institution besides appointed Anand Balasubramanian arsenic spouse and caput of hazard & compliance advisory; Veronica Fox arsenic radical partner; and Richard Hills arsenic partner, caput of hazard innovation & integer forensics.

The signifier strengthened enactment done a operation of interior improvement and outer hires. Two of the spouse appointments, Ahmed Afify and Haris Saigal, were promotions from wrong the company.

Grant Thornton UAE CEO Hisham Farouk said: “These appointments recognise radical who person earned the assurance of clients and colleagues done the prime of their enactment and the mode they lead.

“Each spouse brings a wide knowing of the market, beardown nonrecreational judgement and a work that extends beyond idiosyncratic engagements. That work matters, some to our clients and to the wider concern community.”

Grant Thornton UAE said the concern enlargement comes arsenic organisations successful the United Arab Emirates (UAE) look accrued regulatory complexity, heightened scrutiny, and the increasing relation of exertion successful concern and transaction models.

Grant Thornton Advisors CEO Jim Peko said: “The UAE is not lone an important marketplace for america – it is simply a driving unit wrong our 24,000-strong platform. The enactment emerging here, grounded successful heavy section penetration and matched with our multinational ambition, reflects the spot of our level and the exceptional radical who powerfulness it.

"The UAE plays a pivotal relation successful delivering the seamless cross-border acquisition our clients expect, and it continues to acceptable the gait for what excellence looks similar crossed Grant Thornton.”

Grant Thornton UAE provides audit and assurance, taxation and advisory services crossed aggregate industries successful the country. Since April 2025, it has been portion of a multinational level established by Grant Thornton Advisors successful the US.

Separately, earlier this month, Grant Thornton UK named David Gartside arsenic its caller main integer officer, effectual 1 April.

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