Accountants Mercer & Hole has promoted two tax advisers to director.

Lynsey Lord and Alice Pearson have become directors within the firm’s private client team.

Ms Lord joined the firm in 2008 and qualified as a Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA) in 2012.

She advises on all aspects of personal taxation, including matters relating to income tax, capital gains tax and inheritance tax. In 2015, she worked at a firm in New York, facilitated through Mercer & Hole’s international network, and acts for a number of US citizens and Green Card holders living in the UK.

Also a CTA, Ms Pearson joined the fir...