We are delighted to announce that Joseph Keeping, a Senior Associate in our Private Client Team, has been awarded a STEP Worldwide Excellence Award for achieving the highest overall mark in the STEP Diploma in Trusts & Estates (England & Wales) across all 2023 graduates.
The STEP Excellence Awards celebrate exceptional achievement, recognising the highest achievers across all STEP qualifications globally. STEP comments that, winners of the STEP Excellence Awards, “represent the best and brightest practitioners – many of whom will be names to watch out for in the years ahead.”
STEP qualifications are widely recognised as the benchmark for the private client and wealth planning industry globally and are taken by accountants, lawyers, trustees, bankers and others to demonstrate their specialist knowledge and expertise in the area. Many follow the exam route to full membership of STEP, as is denoted by the prestigious ‘TEP’ designation which is recognised and respected by employers, regulators and clients across the world.
Joseph achieved a distinction in each of his four Advanced Certificates on route to obtaining the Diploma in Trusts & Estates and has now been admitted as a full member of STEP.
Tom Lawrence, Partner & Head of the Private Client Team at Howes Percival, said “Strong investment in the development of our people is at the very core of what we are as a firm. It ensures our clients can be entirely confident they are receiving a really high-quality service from us. Joseph’s achievement is exceptional – it reflects all of his hard work over the past couple of years and he should be rightly proud of his efforts.”
See the full list of winners here: Excellence Awards | STEP