{"id":114290,"date":"2026-03-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/uae\/?p=114290"},"modified":"2026-03-24T02:54:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T02:54:04","slug":"grant-thornton-adds-10-partners-to-uae-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/uae\/2026\/03\/24\/grant-thornton-adds-10-partners-to-uae-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant Thornton adds 10 partners to UAE team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"> <strong>Grant <\/strong><strong>Thornton UAE is bulking up its senior bench, adding 10 new partners to <\/strong><strong>its ranks<\/strong>, according to a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/press-release\/companies-news\/ten-join-grant-thornton-uae-partnership-as-firm-continues-to-expand-axk37poy\" style=\"\">press release<\/a>. The professional services firm bolstered its expertise offering with more specialists across core business lines, including audit, advisory, financial due diligence, forensics, risk, and people advisory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>The new hire<\/strong><strong>s are a mix of internal promotions and external picks. <\/strong>The additions include Sameer Abdi (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sameerabdi\/\" style=\"\">LinkedIn<\/a>) as head of advisory, Richard Hills (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jrhills\/\" style=\"\">LinkedIn<\/a>) as head of risk innovation and digital forensics, and Anand Balasubramanian (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/anand-balasubramanian-5120028\/\" style=\"\">LinkedIn<\/a>) as head of risk and compliance advisory, all joining as partners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new appointments span core business lines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1549],"tags":[7,2568,33],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-114290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moves","tag-enterpriseam-uae","tag-grant-thornton-uae","tag-moves","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"21602eed-e868-4458-8164-c797552a5390","order":"7","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2026\/3\/1045.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"Grant Thornton doubles down on UAE team with new appointments","related_issue":[114279],"teaser":"The new appointments span core business lines"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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