Credit, collections & insolvency news
Business rescue and recovery specialist Begbies Traynor Group has announced that it has expanded its senior team with the appointment of Carl Lever as a Director, working across the firm’s Leeds and Manchester offices. Lever joins the firm from Leonard Curtis where he gained 13 years’ experience and has built a specialism in advising Financial…
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London and Leeds-based insolvency and restructuring firm, PKF Littlejohn Advisory, has appointed Robert Barker as Insolvency Manager to support and further bolster the firm’s restructuring and insolvency capabilities. Barker joins the company with over 15 years’ experience in the sector, working predominantly within boutique insolvency practices, helping to facilitate the restructuring, sale or liquidation of…
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London and Leeds-based insolvency and restructuring firm, PKF Littlejohn Advisory, has announced it has appointed Jonathan Burke as a Senior Insolvency Administrator. Burke joins the team with four years of experience in corporate insolvencies and restructuring, He will support the PKF Littlejohn Advisory team in the restructuring, sale or liquidation of businesses in need of…
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UHY Hacker Young has announced that it has promoted Skevi Iacovou to Director in the turnaround and recovery department at national accounting group. Iacovou first joined UHY Hacker Young in 2010 as a graduate and has been working in the Turnaround & Recovery team for over ten years. She specialises in corporate insolvencies of owner…
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The Insolvency Practitioners Association (IPA) have announced that Paul Smith, their Chief Executive Officer will stand down from his role later this year. Smith joined the IPA in 2021 after a distinguished career in financial services. The IPA says Smith has made significant contributions over the past three years. Under his leadership, the IPA responded…
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Leonard Curtis has announced that it has appointed Peter Vinden as Director. Vinden will bring 30 years of construction dispute resolution expertise to the firm’s restructuring and turnaround division. Vinden, who recently became a non-exec director at Decipher a DeSimone company, the Manchester-based claims consultant, has now formalised a long-standing working relationship with Leonard Curtis…
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The ICAEW has appointed Malcolm Bacchus as its new President for 2024/25. Bacchus succeeds Mark Rhys as ICAEW President and will serve a one-year term until June 2025. As President, Bacchus will support the implementation of ICAEW’s 10-year strategy as well as the Institute’s commitment to serve the public interest as defined in its Royal Charter.…
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The Insolvency Service board has announced it has appointed Lorcan O’Connor, founder and former leader of the Insolvency Service of Ireland as a non-executive member. O’Connor, who founded the Insolvency Service of Ireland (ISI) in 2012, joined the UK’s Insolvency Service Board in April. The Board is the agency’s main decision-making body and is responsible…
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Russell-Cooke Solicitors has announced that it has recruited Simon Jerrum as its new Head of Restructuring and Insolvency. Jerrum is a highly regarded insolvency lawyer, with particular expertise in complex contentious insolvency disputes often involving concurrent proceedings in multiple jurisdictions and the recovery of assets based overseas. Jerrum is a solicitor-advocate qualified in England and…
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The restructuring and insolvency arm of PKF has appointed former Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute of Credit Management (CICM), Philip King, as an Advisor as the business looks to further expand its business operations. King, who also served on the Joint Insolvency Committee (JIC) between 2011-2020 and was the JIC’s first ever Lay Chair,…
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Insolvency specialist company, Leonard Curtis has announced it has appointed Nick Myers as a Director to its London office. Myers brings almost two decades’ of real estate restructuring and insolvency experience. He qualified as a licensed insolvency practitioner in 2010 and has spent 19 years in corporate restructuring and insolvency, recovering in excess of £100…
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London and Leeds-based insolvency and restructuring firm, PKF GM, has appointed Dawn McMullan to support the firm’s personal and contentious insolvency teams and build upon the business’ successes in 2023. McMullan joins PKF GM with 17 years’ of experience working within commercial, personal and contentious insolvency practices, during which time she rose from a temporary…
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The Lord Chancellor has approved the reappointment of Alison Curry as the accountant member of the Insolvency Rules Committee (IRC). Curry is a licensed insolvency practitioner with 28 years of experience working within both private practice and the regulatory arena. She is currently Technical Manager at AlixPartners, where she provides legislative and regulatory compliance support…
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