Partners

Susan Jarvie

Sue has special responsibility for audit compliance.

Her particular specialities are charities and professional practices and she is also the firm’s VAT expert.

Sue is also our staff partner.

Partners

Frank Pratt

Frank worked with KPMG for several years before joining us as a partner.

Over the years he has advised a wide range of clients on business start-up strategies, assisting in the preparation of business plans and projections and advising on funding.

His specialist client groups include nursing homes, dentists and large owner-managed businesses.

Partners

David Main

David is a member of the Institute of Taxation and is our specialist tax partner dealing with all aspects of tax planning including advising on exit route strategy, inheritance tax and capital gains tax planning.  He is a director of Whitelaw Wells Financial Planning Limited.

David is one of our charity partners with a large portfolio of clients in the charitable sector.

David also has a number of clients from the film and television industries.

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Herbert Chok

Herbert joined the firm from Aberdeen where he had been in practice for many years.  Herbert retains strong connections with North East Scotland and visits Aberdeen regularly where we have established a new office.

He is partner in charge of our Glasgow office where he specialises in the hotel and restaurant trade.  He has many years of experience in handling investigations by the Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

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Nelson Yiu

Nelson practised on his own account for several years before becoming a partner in Whitelaw Wells.

Nelson advises on new business start-ups and has created a start-up pack designed to help budding entrepreneurs.

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Jacqui McCarrell

Jacqui trained in our Edinburgh office and then worked in Glasgow for some years before joining our Glasgow office.  Jacqui has a wide portfolio of clients ranging from smaller businesses, sole traders and partnerships to larger limited liability companies.

Jacqui now heads up the Glasgow audit team and has a growing portfolio of charity clients.  She is also involved in due-diligence work.

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Mark Macefield

Mark is a partner in our Edinburgh Office.   He joined us in 1998 as an audit and accounting manager. As a partner, Mark specialises in pension schemes and solicitors’ practices as well as property investment and development companies. Mark also has responsibility for recruitment and training.

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Kevin Cattanach

Kevin qualified with Pannell Kerr Forster and joined us in 1999 since when he has been a manager, and latterly an associate, covering a broad portfolio of audit clients but with a particular responsibility for charities.

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Miss S H (Mary)Tan

Mary trained with us when she first came to Edinburgh and then, after qualifying, spent several years at home in Malaysia pursuing a successful career in commerce before returning to professional practice. Mary heads up our Chinese department, created to provide a complete accounting service to our many Chinese clients. Mary is developing a similar service for Chinese clients in Aberdeen, Newcastle and Dundee.