Brooks Macdonald has appointed Andrew Shepherd, currently group deputy chief executive and managing director, UK distribution, as chief executive of its international business. He will be based in Jersey and will take up the new position from 1 April 2019. He will chair the boards of the two legal entities within international.

He takes over from Darren Zaman, chief executive for the past five years, who will leave the business. The firm said Mr Zaman had made a “major contribution to the development” of international. He joined initially as part of the 2014 acquisition of DPZ Capital, which he had founded in 2007 and was int...