The transaction brings an established and highly regarded receivership team into KR8, enhancing the firm’s ability to support lenders across complex real estate situations. The acquisition includes both the team and its active case portfolio, further strengthening KR8’s real estate market presence and expertise.
This latest move reflects KR8’s continued strategy to build a leading, fully integrated advisory business – combining restructuring expertise with deep real estate capability. KR8’s growth has been underpinned by its differentiated approach – combining technical restructuring expertise with hands-on real estate capability. By integrating surveyors, insolvency practitioners, and financial advisory specialists within one team, the firm is able to provide clear, commercially focused advice.
Annika Kisby, Managing Director at KR8 Advisory, said:
“We launched KR8 at the beginning of 2025 with the aim of building a national market leading real estate advisory and restructuring team. We see this acquisition as key to this objective. The Allsop Recoveries and Receivership team has a strong reputation in the market, and we are very excited to welcome them to the business.
This acquisition alongside our growing Building and Project Consultancy team enhances our ability to deliver high-quality outcomes for lenders and stakeholders across the full lifecycle of real estate in all sectors”
Allsop has a long-established market leading position in the UK property market, including in recoveries and receivership work. The acquisition brings that capability together with KR8 Advisory’s restructuring-led, advisory-focused model, creating a broader proposition for lenders and other stakeholders across the full property-backed lending lifecycle.
Since launching in 2025, the KR8 team has advised on more than 300 real estate restructuring mandates for over 50 clients. Following completion, the enlarged team will include 21 chartered surveyors and dedicated real estate restructuring professionals, supported by more than 300 colleagues across KR8 Advisory when it completes its recently announced merger with Quantuma.
James Liddiment, Managing Director at KR8 Advisory, said:
“Real estate is a core pillar of KR8 Advisory’s proposition, and this acquisition accelerates our ability to deliver senior-led, practical and commercial advice to the lending market.
Our strength lies in combining independent restructuring advice, hands-on real estate expertise and lender-side insight. Clients can access an integrated team able to support them from pre-lend and pre-enforcement advice through to receivership, administration, asset strategy and disposal.
The integration of the Allsop Recoveries and Receivership team reflects the changing landscape and the increasing demand for true real estate experts within restructuring and insolvency.”
Andrew Boyd, senior partner at Allsop, said:
“We are immensely proud of our Recoveries and Receivership team which has delivered excellent results for our clients over the years. We believe this deal creates new opportunities for those colleagues – in joining a specialist firm with an integrated real estate restructuring model – and also for our clients. On behalf of the Allsop partners, I’d like to thank the team and wish them continued success, while also looking forward to continuing to work closely with them and the enlarged KR8 team.
“At Allsop. we will continue to pursue our strategy of selective growth in complementary business areas, as demonstrated by the recent launch of a dedicated planning offering. We remain focused on creating, adding and unlocking value for our clients, and committed to providing the very best, partner led advice.”
The Allsop Recoveries and Receivership team joins KR8 Advisory with immediate effect.
