Steven joins HCB Solicitors

One of the Midlands’ leading law firms is further developing its corporate and personal financial offer to clients by appointing new Tax Director Steven Holden.

Steven, an experienced tax professional specialising in working with trustees and private clients, has joined fast expanding HCB Solicitors to broaden the scope of advice available to all their clients. HCB has offices in Solihull, Walsall, Stratford upon Avon, Redditch and Lichfield and has recently opened another in Sutton Coldfied. Steven will be providing tax advice to clients in all six areas.

Well-known on local radio and television as a regular commentator on tax affairs, Steven previously worked for two of the top ten accountancy and business services firms in the UK, and has also spent much of the last ten years in the legal sector. He has an extensive specialist knowledge of trust taxation, accounting and administration as well as charitable trusts and also deals with tax compliance from assisting clients in tax repayment claims or tax returns to handling enquiries from HMRC for them.

A member of the Association of Taxation Technicians (of which he currently sits on the Membership committee), he acts as a volunteer for the charity Tax Help for Older People giving free tax surgeries to pensioners on low incomes and is also a local school governor.

Steven said: “HCB has proved itself as a successful and developing law firm with a growing number of partners specialising in all aspects of corporate and personal law, and that leads naturally into the tax affairs of their many clients. “By offering clients the whole package of legal and tax advice we are able to develop the customer friendly ethos of the company over a large area of the West Midlands. “I will be advising our clients on straightforward issues such as tax returns to advising on and setting up more complex matters like offshore trusts and company structures”.

Mike Gahan, chief executive of HCB Solicitors, said: “Steven’s appointment is a logical step in the firm’s development. He brings extensive knowledge and expertise to our portfolio in an area which is an attractive addition to our clients”.