Azets Aberdeen appoints new head of Corporate Tax Team

Azets Aberdeen appoints new head of Corporate Tax Team

Azets has hired Frazer Nicol to head up a new Corporate Tax Team within the firm’s fast-growing Aberdeen office. Frazer Nicol joins Azets as a Tax Director from the Aberdeen office of Anderson Anderson & Brown LLP.

Frazer has extensive experience in both practice and industry advising a wide range of clients on corporate tax issues in the UK and Internationally, providing strategic tax advice to both growing businesses and multinationals including leading specialist tax projects and supporting clients with the management of their tax obligations.

As Head of Corporate Tax he will lead a team advising corporate clients on tax compliance, tax structuring, overseas expansion, permanent establishment risk, transfer pricing and cross border financing.

Azets Aberdeen Regional Managing Partner David Booth said: “We are delighted that Frazer is joining our fast-growing office. His extensive technical expertise and wide commercial experience both in the UK and internationally will be a major asset to our business as we build the Corporate Tax service line across the North-East of Scotland. In addition to advising our growing client base, Frazer will play a key role leading the team, recruitment and building the department.

The Aberdeen office of Azets has recently announced plans to create an additional 20 jobs or more by 2023 in a wide range of positions, from trainees to senior posts.