UK-based accountancy and business advisory practice Hurst has expanded its business services and corporate finance operations teams with two appointments.

Liam Victoros has taken up the role of associate manager within the business services team, which undertakes audit, compliance, strategic advisory, outsourcing and business planning assignments. It is also the company’s largest division with more than 70 staff.

Victoros arrives from Saffery, where he worked as a fully qualified senior auditor with a focus on film, television and video games clients.

Meanwhile, Abigail Kelly has joined Hurst’s corporate finance team as a manager.

Kelly joins from investment bank and advisory practice Cavendish where she served as an associate director in the corporate finance division.

She specialises in regulatory advisory and transaction-led work including public-to-private deals, initial public offerings, acquisitions, fundraising mandates and complex corporate structures.

Hurst’s corporate finance team advises owner-managed businesses and entrepreneurs on acquisitions and disposals, debt funding and private equity investments, working alongside colleagues in business services, tax and digital.

The company said both new recruits have relocated from London.

Hurst partner and Practice Development director Simon Brownbill said: “Abigail and Liam bring valuable experience from larger firms and the London market, and their arrival further strengthens two key teams within the firm.

“Their appointments are great examples of the calibre of people we continue to attract as we grow.”

Earlier this year, Dains announced the acquisition of Hurst as part of its expansion into the North West.

Under the deal, the existing Hurst leadership team will stay on and continue to lead the company’s development.