About Us
Dedicated to delivering a first class client service
Dean Statham was established in the 1880’s and today we continue to build on our enviable reputation for providing excellent advice and first class service to our business and personal clients alike.
All of our Partners have one common denominator – they are all “Big 4 firm” trained but have chosen to run their own medium sized firm where the Partner/Client contact is much greater and more personal.
In addition, all of our Partners are qualified Chartered Accountants.
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Mike Heenan BSc FCA
Educated at King Edward VI School Stafford and a physics graduate, Mike qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse & Co in 1976. He joined Dean Statham in 1979 and became a partner in 1981.
His main professional focus is acting for businesses with turnovers of up to £20 million. He has extensive experience in advising on buying and selling such enterprises, along with giving appropriate share valuation and taxation advice.
He is a former President of the Staffs, Salop and Wolverhampton Society of Chartered Accountants and Stafford and North Staffordshire Chambers of Commerce.
He has held various Non-Executive Director roles in both the public and private sector, being a former Chairman of an NHS Trust and Business Link Staffordshire and former Chief Executive of Stafford Railway Building Society. He is currently Non-Executive Chairman of a property company and a Cabinet Member for a local authority.
To contact Mike Heenan please telephone 01785 238153 or email mrheenan@deanstatham.com |
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Susan Whiting BA ACA ATII
Susan is a graduate of Sheffield University and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Peat Marwick in 1987. She joined Dean Statham in 1991, and set up and ran the Corporate Department which specialises in audit and company matters. She became a member of the Institute of Taxation in 1992, and a partner of the firm in 1998.
She advises a wide range of businesses and individuals and particularly enjoys helping owner-managers with tax matters such as tax-efficient business structures and estate planning. She is qualified as a Responsible Individual for audit purposes. She also works with a number of not for profit organisations and is Company Secretary of a local charity.
Susan is also a director of Stafford Chamber of Commerce and Chief Executive of Stafford Railway Building Society.
To contact Susan Whiting please telephone 01785 238154 or email sjwhiting@deanstatham.com |
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Jeremy Hodgkiss FCA CF MSI
Jeremy is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Corporate Financier and originally trained with Dean Statham before moving to KPMG in 1996. In 2004 Jeremy rejoined the firm as a Partner.
Jeremy has worked with a variety of clients over the years providing audit, business and corporate finance advice to companies with turnovers ranging from a few thousand pounds to PLC’s with turnover in excess of £350m.
Jeremy has provided advice on various transactions including management buy-outs, company acquisitions/disposals, shareholder restructuring etc.
Jeremy is the firm's Corporate Finance Partner and is also a member of the UK200 Group Corporate Finance panel.
To contact Jeremy Hodgkiss please telephone 01785 238155 or email jhodgkiss@deanstatham.com |
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Richard Stonier BSc (Econ) FCA ATT
Educated at King Edward VI School Stafford and a First Class Accounting graduate from Aberystwyth University, Richard qualified as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG in 1999. Richard joined Dean Staham as a partner in March 2011. Richard is a qualified member of the Association of Taxation Technicians.
Richard has acted for a wide range of clients over the years providing audit, accountancy and business advice. He has acted for entities in the public sector and private sector including listed entities, international groups and small owner managed businesses with turnovers ranging from a few thousand to over £350 million. He has a strong technical background and is conversant in UK and international accounting standards as well as the forthcoming Financial Reporting Standard for Medium sized Entities (FRSME) that will impact all owner managed entities in the next few years.
To contact Richard Stonier please telephone 01785 238153 or email rstonier@deanstatham.com |
Professional Indemnity Insurance
In accordance with the disclosure requirements of the Services Regulations 2009, our professional indemnity insurer is Brit Insurance Limited, of 55 Bishopsgate, London, EC2N 3AS. The territorial coverage is worldwide excluding professional business carried out from an office in the United States of America or Canada and excludes any action for a claim bought in any court in the United States of America or Canada.
Audit Register
We are registered to carry on audit work in the UK by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and details about our audit registration can be viewed at www.auditregister.org.uk, under reference number C005312486. The Audit Regulations and Guidance and APB Ethical Standards that we are required to adhere to can be found at icaew.com/auditnews and www.frc.org.uk/apb/publications/ethical.cfm.
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