LEADING business advisory firm Grant Thornton has announced a raft of senior promotions and new hires in its Scottish restructuring and forensic investigations teams, taking the headcount to 20 specialists across its Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen offices.
The team growth is in response to increasing demand for the firm’s services, driven by both the challenging macroeconomic facing businesses, and growing awareness about the risks posed by cyber breaches and fraud-related incidents.
Claire Probert has been promoted to director within the forensic investigation team. She joined Grant Thornton in 2015, following almost 15 years working in forensic for a Big Four firm.
Claire has significant expert witness experience having advised a number of clients across a wide range of disputes in recent years, the last 12 months seeing a number of instructions in the fishing sector. She has also amassed significant experience of undertaking fraud investigations, as well as anti-bribery and corruption cases. Increasingly, however, clients are enlisting her counsel on risk management strategies for cybersecurity threats, an area in which she is spending an increasing amount of…
