Former Ashurst senior partner Geoffrey Green is to join the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) to chair its Financial Reporting Review Panel (FRRP), the accounting watchdog has said.

Green, senior partner of Ashurst from 1998 to 2008, will replace legacy Herbert Smith partner Richard Fleck as chair of the FRRP – the regulator’s body responsible for reviewing company accounts at the UK’s largest listed businesses – on 1 April.