Our People
Director, Employee Benefits & Financial Services
Nicola Bell
Solicitor, Legal Advisory
Jonathan Boyfield
Partner, Expatriate Tax
Gemma Carman
Audit Manager, Company Secretarial
Hamida Chowdhury
Manager, Tax Advisory and Global Expansion
Melissa Christopher
Partner, Tax Advisory & Global Expansion
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Manager, Tax Advisory & Global Expansion
Andy Duncan
Consultant, Private Client Tax
Adam Dunnett
Consultant, Tax Advisory and Global Expansion
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Partner, Corporate Assurance & Advisory
Lynne Florek
Manager, Employee Benefits & Financial Services
Carla Graves
Senior Manager, Tax Advisory & Global Expansion
Sungae Han
Consultant, Payroll
Melissa Harkcom
Director, US Business Development & Global Expansion
Anthony Hart
Director, Information Technology
Jamie Hawkins
Senior Manager, Corporate Assurance & Advisory
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Manager, Marketing
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Manager, Payroll & Global Expansion
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Senior Manager, Corporate Assurance & Advisory
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Manager, Expatriate Tax
Sean O'Sullivan
Consultant, Tax Advisory and Global Expansion
Russell Osman
Solicitor, Legal Advisory
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Partner, Tax Advisory & Global Expansion
Katia Ramirez
Tax Assistant (Iberia & Latin America)
Martin Ranson
Partner, Financial Outsourcing & Global Expansion
Tom Redfern
Director, Legal Advisory
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Partner, Tax Advisory & Global Expansion
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Consultant, Payroll
Carl Simons-Short
Senior Manager, Expatriate Tax
Keith Steele
Partner, Financial Outsourcing & Global Expansion
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Manager, Financial Outsourcing & Global Expansion
Tom Watts
Manager, Corporate Assurance & Advisory
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Senior Manager
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Practice Manager
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Consultant, Asia Pacific & Global Expansion
Melissa qualified as a Solicitor in England and Wales in 2001 at Eversheds (UK) where she specialised in providing commercial legal advice to UK and global high growth technology clients, the public sector and financial services industry. She spent time in-house at Orange Personal Communications working primarily on high value procurement projects. Following this, Melissa spent 4 years working at Osborne Clarke law firm most recently in their Silicon Valley Office providing advice to many of the area's gaming, media, social networking, technology and communications companies. Melissa returned to the UK at the end of 2007 to become Head of Legal Services for Opal Telecom (the business to business division of TalkTalk Group, which is FTSE 200 and now the largest broadband provider in the UK).
Melissa joined Fitzgerald and Law in May 2010 and is based in our San Francisco office where she provides practical, effective and straightforward advice and assistance to companies looking to globalise their businesses.
Melissa's areas of legal specialism are commercial contracts (including distribution, agency, outsourcing, licensing, consultancy), data protection , intellectual property (protection and exploitation), UK communications regulatory and EU competition (anti-trust).
Melissa Harkcom
Director, US Business Development & Global Expansion
Direct Dial: +1 (415) 728 9815
Email: mharkcom@fitzgeraldandlaw.com
