For the first time, the GGI Member of the Year Awards were held for GGI members at the GGI World Conference in Cape Town, South Africa. GGI members nominate other GGI firms for the awards. They acknowledge innovations, achievements and strategies, as well as the progressive and inspirational changes taking place within the industry. The judging panel, which is comprised of GGI’s Executive Committee and GGI’s Executive Management, scrutinised all nominations to ensure that they met the specific criteria for the GGI Member of the Year Award. These include reliability, professionalism, response behaviour, reputation and client services.
The firms were put forward by fellow GGI member firms through the online voting system available on the internal area of GGI’s website.
We are very proud to present the first three winners of the GGI Member of the Year Awards:
GT Fiduciaires, Luxembourg
The GT Fiduciaires (GTF) group was founded in 2006. Through its different entities located in Luxembourg City and Echternach, GT Fiduciaires is able to offer advisory and assistance services relating to the setup of company structures right through to their liquidation, including all the various stages involved in the support and management of a company in Luxembourg.
GTF has a workforce of around forty employees, all highly qualified in their various fields and conversant in at least English, French, German and Luxembourgish.
GTF has undergone considerable growth, thanks to its capacity to speedily adapt to constantly evolving market demands. The company is managed by Thierry Hellers and Gernot Kos.
Thierry Heller comments: “On behalf of the management and all our personnel, GTF is very honoured to receive the 2014 GGI Member of the Year Award. We look forward to many more years of dynamic networking within the GGI Family.”
McCabes, Australia
McCabes is thrilled to be a winner of the GGI XLNC award for 2014, and Andrew Lacey and Steven Humphries were equally thrilled to have been there in Cape Town to receive it.
“Thank you to GGI for the honour, to Heyns and Nolands for hosting a memorable and enjoyable conference and to all the member firm representatives in attendance at Cape Town for your wonderful company.
Having been a GGI member for 2 years now, the award certainly gives us the confidence of knowing that our work with fellow member firms has been well received. We hope this will generate further opportunities to deepen our involvement and develop relationships within the network”.
Briefly by way of background for GGI members McCabes experts haven’t yet had the opportunity to work with, McCabes is an Australian law firm with over 60 lawyers in our Sydney and Newcastle offices. They service clientele in all areas of business and across many industries. McCabes’ clients include multi-national corporations, manufacturers, service providers, government departments, SMEs, family-owned enterprises and entrepreneurs. They are well connected in Australian private and public sectors, and are very happy to explore with GGI member firms and their clients how their local legal expertise and broader network of contracts might assist them. McCabes specialises in the following practice areas of legal practice:
Corporate, Employment, Government & Administrative Law, Insolvency, Insurance, Intellectual Property, Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Private Clients (Estates & Succession Planning), Property.
VBIR (Vardi Brukner Ingber Rozenzvieg, CPA ), Israel
The accounting firm is located in the vicinity of Tel-Aviv with 35 employees and five partners.
VBIR specialises in providing accounting, audit, taxation and wealth management services. The firm’s attributes include excellent professional ability and offering an efficient, focused and personal service to its clients.
Dov Ingber, a Partner with VBIR: “I am honoured and proud to receive the GGI XLNC award on behalf of the entire VBIR team. Thanks to all our GGI fellows with whom we have worked very well over the past few years.”
“I tried to think about what we have done so well to make us eligible for this honour. So, we have certainly invested a lot of effort and worked hard to always remain professional, but the truly unique achievement of VBIR has been to introduce a new Palestinian member to GGI. This activity indicates that GGI is not just a place to unite professionals and friends but also a way in which a bridge to peace can be built.”
If you believe that one GGI member firm has gone that extra mile and deserves to win this prestigious award, then you can make it happen.
To nominate a fellow GGI member firm, please login to GGI’s internal website and follow these steps (it will only take two minutes):
- Go to GGI Awards – GGI Member Firm of the Year – Submit your nomination
- Fill in the required information and click “Send”.
Nominations must be submitted before 27 February 2015.
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