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Our Managing Director-led advisory practice comprises an impressive, ambitious senior team with extensive mid-market experience.

Andrew Livingstone

Managing Director

Andrew Livingstone

Managing Director

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Andrew has over 20 years of advisory experience, specialising in restructuring, contingency planning and distressed situations for corporates, private equity sponsors, lenders and other stakeholders.

He is a licensed Insolvency Practitioner with extensive experience across financial restructuring, operational wind-downs and cross-border assignments involving diverse stakeholder groups.

Andrew primarily focuses on complex restructuring and contingency planning situations, with particular expertise across retail, leisure and hospitality, financial services and cross-border engagements. His experience includes property restructuring programmes, insolvency trading, solvent exits, operational restructuring, fintech due diligence and private equity fund restructuring.

Annika Kisby

Managing Director

Annika Kisby

Managing Director

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Annika specialises in real estate valuation, restructuring and turnaround advisory.  

With over 20 years of experience, Annika has worked across a wide range of real estate asset classes and sectors, predominantly on behalf of the main UK financial institutions, secured lenders, funds and key stakeholders throughout the UK.   

Annika is a trusted adviser with extensive experience of super prime high-end residential property and residential buy-to-let portfolios, as well as development projects and complex assets.  

Annika is a chartered surveyor, fellow of Nara, the Association for Property and Fixed Charge Receivers, and a RICS Registered Property Receiver as well as an Assessor for Nara. 

David Fleming

Managing Director

David Fleming

Managing Director

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David has over 20 years of advisory experience, specialising in turnaround and restructuring assignments for key stakeholders such as lenders, private equity investors, management teams, directors and creditors.   

Before joining KR8, David spent 15 years at Kroll, initially running the Advisory division and latterly as UK Head, managing over 180 professionals nationally. He also served on the Global Restructuring leadership team.  

David primarily focuses on turnaround and solvent solutions for businesses, focusing on business reviews, pre-lend reviews, strategic options analysis, financial modelling, debt advisory and special situations M&A.   

James Liddiment

Managing Director

James Liddiment

Managing Director

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James is a chartered surveyor, specialising in real estate valuation, restructuring and turnaround advisory.  

With over 18 years of experience, James has worked across a broad range of real estate asset classes and sectors. He is a trusted adviser with extensive experience of development projects and complex assets.  

James has undertaken project work for various stakeholders encompassing strategic valuation, capital markets and asset management guidance in respect of single high-profile assets to large portfolios.  

He is a RICS Registered Property Receiver and RICS Registered Valuer.  

Jimmy Saunders

Managing Director

Jimmy Saunders

Managing Director

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Jimmy has over 20 years of experience in turnaround advisory and formal corporate restructuring.

His responsibilities include advising lenders, directors and other stakeholders on turnaround options, including IBRs, cashflow support, refinancing and fundraising through to AMA and M&A transactions.

He has advised creditors on Restructuring Plans, led cross-border assignments, advised AIM listed businesses and has overseen the investigation of various contentious matters.
Jimmy is also engaged to provide contingency planning and to take insolvency appointments where required in his capacity as a licensed insolvency practitioner.

Joanne Wright

Managing Director

Joanne Wright

Managing Director

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Joanne leads the Personal Insolvency practices at KR8 and Quantuma. She has worked in the restructuring industry for 35 years and spent 25 of those specialising in personal insolvency.

She has extensive experience advising debtors and creditors, striving to find effective solutions that benefit all stakeholders.

A large part of Joanne’s time is spent identifying and recovering assets located in the UK and abroad as part of contentious bankruptcy appointments, working diligently in order to optimise returns.

Joanne is a Licensed Insolvency Practitioner and Fellow of the Insolvency Practitioners Association.

Harris Waseem

Managing Director

Harris Waseem

Managing Director

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Harris is a Managing Director in the Advisory team. Harris brings over 20 years’ experience in restructuring and turnaround advisory, specialising in financial restructuring, stakeholder advisory, performance improvement and cashflow management situations.

He began his career at a Big Four firm, where he spent 15 years in the Restructuring team, including secondments with HSBC’s Restructuring unit and First Bank of Nigeria. He later moved into senior leadership roles within UK mid-tier firms, leading restructuring teams.

Harris has extensive experience advising lenders, shareholders, boards and pension schemes across infrastructure, hospitality, construction, engineering, manufacturing and healthcare sectors. He has led independent business reviews, cashflow forecasting, turnaround planning, refinancing and equity raises, including transactions delivered through accelerated M&A processes and restructurings.

Lauren Wentworth

Managing Director

Lauren Wentworth

Managing Director

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Lauren is a Managing Director in the corporate restructuring practice based in London, but operating nationally.  Lauren has 18 years experience in a number of sectors, with particular focus on property restructuring.  

Lauren works with a number of alternative lenders in providing advice.  She has also undertaken project work for a number of lenders to strategically assess their property portfolios, including NPL loan books and part developed distressed assets. 

Prior to KR8 Advisory, Lauren was a senior director of a UK turnaround and advisory division of a global professional services firm.  

Lauren is an Insolvency Practitioner and holds a MSc in Real Estate Development and is working towards her RICS.   

Martin Gray

Managing Director

Martin Gray

Managing Director

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Martin has over 15 years of financial and business advisory experience having worked across both banking and accountancy. He specialises in providing restructuring and turnaround advice to creditors, corporates and sponsors.   

Before joining KR8, Martin spent eight years at Kroll growing and developing the UK Advisory practice, which he co-led, managing over 40 professionals nationally.   

Martin primarily focuses on independent business reviews, strategic options analysis, pre-lend reviews, debt advisory and special situations M&A. These core services involve extensive financial due diligence and providing hands-on support to management teams, and key stakeholders, in both growth and stressed scenarios.   

Mike Lennon

Managing Director

Mike Lennon

Managing Director

07920 762 551

Mike is a Managing Director in Restructuring Advisory and has extensive experience advising corporates, lenders and stakeholders with a particular specialism in business advisory, accelerated M&A, buyside advisory and formal restructuring.  

His experience spans a wide range of sectors and includes both solvent and insolvent solutions.  

Mike strives to find simple yet effective solutions which align with stakeholder objectives and result in the optimum outcome, even when the economic environment is challenging for business owners and stakeholders.  

He is a Chartered Certified Accountant and a licensed insolvency practitioner.  

Paul Greenhalgh

Managing Director

Paul Greenhalgh

Managing Director

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Paul is a Managing Director in the Real Estate practice and has 20 years’ experience in real estate, valuation and restructuring, predominantly within the financial services sector for secured lending, business support and recovery purposes.   

Before joining KR8, Paul was a director at a national chartered surveying practice and a founding managing director of a UK real estate advisory division of a global professional services firm.   

Paul is a chartered surveyor, RICS Registered Valuer, fellow of Nara, the Association for Property and Fixed Charge Receivers, and a RICS Registered Property Receiver.

Richard Harrison

Managing Director

Richard Harrison

Managing Director

Richard is a Managing Director in the Advisory team. Richard brings over 20 years’ experience in restructuring and private equity, specialising in capital and debt advisory, performance improvement and working capital optimisation.

He began his career at KPMG, where he spent 11 years in the Restructuring team, including a secondment with Barclays Bank’s Business Support unit. He later joined Endless LLP, becoming a Partner in 2021 and leading investments from the £100m Enact Fund III.

Richard has extensive expertise across food manufacturing, consumer, distribution, and industrial engineering and has held numerous Boards roles in these sectors. As a private equity investor, he has direct experience of creating and driving value creation strategies in both stressed and non-stressed scenarios.

 

Lisa Handley

Associate Managing Director

Lisa Handley

Associate Managing Director

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Lisa is an Associate Managing Director within the Advisory team, with over 13 years experience in the financial services sector. Lisa specialises in providing advisory services to a variety of businesses spanning a range of industries. Working collaboratively with all stakeholders involved, Lisa is diligent in securing the most optimal solution for all parties, often navigating complex and challenging situations with ease.

Whilst predominantly supporting SME’s with their financial and strategic objectives, Lisa provides a comprehensive approach to securing the right solution for small companies and multi-entity businesses achieving £1bn+ turnover, alike.

Acknowledging Lisa’s expertise within the Advisory space, Lisa was a finalist in the 2022 Institute for Turnaround (IFT), Rising Star award and has since become an accredited member of the IFT. Lisa is a qualified Chartered Accountant and a qualified Tax Advisor, also holding a first-class degree in Economics.

Mark Blackman

Associate Managing Director

Mark Blackman

Associate Managing Director

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Mark brings over 27 years of experience in formal corporate restructuring and turnaround advisory, working closely with clients and key stakeholders to maximise and preserve value.

As a senior director he has advised corporates, lenders and stakeholders in delivering market-leading rescue solutions across a range of sectors including automotive, manufacturing and engineering, and works closely with the asset-based lending community having spent nine months on secondment at a global asset-based lender.

Mark is a Chartered Certified Accountant and appointment-taking licensed insolvency practitioner having passed the Joint Insolvency Examination Board exams in 2009.

Mike Parsons

Associate Managing Director

Mike Parsons

Associate Managing Director

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Mike Parsons has 20 years of experience advising UK corporates in all aspects of business turnaround and restructuring, as well as capital advisor services to lenders for both existing clients and new prospects. 

Mike has worked for a wide range of lenders including asset-based lenders, banks, secondary lenders and private equity funders, as well as directly for corporates and their stakeholders. In 2012, he completed a secondment to Royal Bank of Scotland’s restructuring team where he gained valuable experience managing distressed lending portfolios. 

Mike was chairman of the North West Regional Board of the Turnaround Management Association (TMA) between 2017 and 2021, and was also a finalist in the 2017 TMA Young Turnaround Professional of the Year awards.  Mike is also an accredited member of the Institute for Turnaround (IFT).  Mike has a degree in history from the University of Manchester and is a fellow of the Institute for Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (FCA). 

Rob Halliday

Associate Managing Director

Rob Halliday

Associate Managing Director

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Rob Halliday is an Associate Managing Director within Kr8’s advisory practice. Rob brings more than 13 years of specialist restructuring and corporate finance experience, focusing on special situations M&A, accelerated fundraising and financial advisory.​

Rob works closely with his clients and key stakeholders to maximise and preserve value during periods of business stress and distress and has significant experience working across the turnaround investor and asset based lending communities.​

Rob has worked with clients across a range of industries, including retail, consumer, travel and leisure, food and beverage, manufacturing, engineering and financial services delivering market leading rescue solutions to service client needs.​

Prior to joining KR8, Rob spent a combined 13 years with Kroll and Alvarez and Marsal’s advisory and restructuring practice where he served as Director. ​

Rob earned a bachelor’s degree in International Business from Loughborough University. He is also a qualified member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and has completed the Joint Insolvency Examination Board.

Paul Carter-Bell

Associate Managing Director

Paul Carter-Bell

Associate Managing Director

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With 18 years of banking and business advisory experience, Paul is dedicated to helping clients navigate critical strategic decisions with precision and insight.  

Paul excels at uniting diverse groups to tackle complex challenges and his expertise spans a wide range of services including financing, capital structure optimisation, business strategy and operational improvement.  

As a Chartered Management Accountant, Paul’s expertise includes business reorganisation, balance sheet restructuring, asset divestitures, mergers and acquisitions and both debt and equity financing.  

Dave Wood

Associate Managing Director

Dave Wood

Associate Managing Director

Dave is a Chartered Building Surveyor and Associate Managing Director based in our Manchester office specialising in building surveying and project management.

With over 19 years experience Dave has a well-rounded knowledge of all building surveying disciplines and particular experience in project due diligence, dilapidations, development monitoring, party walls, boundary disputes, schedules of conditions and project management.

Previously Dave was the managing director of a multi disciplinary property consultants and has previously worked alongside several KR8 colleagues assisting in the recovery of distressed development projects.

Chris Holt

Director

Chris Holt

Director

07931 430 950

Chris Holt is a Director in the Manchester office specialising in real estate valuations, restructuring and recovery. Valuation, asset management and strategic disposal advice form the primary areas of Chris’s experience. Chris is a Chartered Surveyor and RICS Registered Valuer and has experience valuing and advising across all real estate and asset classes for a variety of clients including banks, private equity firms, high net worth individuals, pension funds, developers and public sector bodies throughout the UK. 

Chris joined KR8 from a global consultancy firm and was previously at a national firm of Chartered Surveyors. Chris was seconded to a major property Lender in 2018 where he advised the Credit function on property specific issues. 

Tom Parker

Director

Tom Parker

Director

07931 430 972

Tom is a chartered surveyor with over 18 years of experience in real estate, valuation and restructuring, predominantly within the financial services sector for secured lending, business support and recovery purposes.

Specialising in insolvency, in particular LPA (Fixed Charge) Receivership, he provides valuation and strategy advice for a number of banks and alternative lenders and also undertakes secured lending valuation work.

Before joining KR8 Advisory, Tom was a director of the UK real estate advisory division of a global professional services firm. He is a chartered surveyor, RICS Registered Valuer, fellow of Nara, the Association for Property and Fixed Charge Receivers and a RICS Registered Property Receiver.

Gordon Dunne

Director

Gordon Dunne

Director

07931 430 949

Gordon Dunne is a Director in the London office specialising in, restructuring and recovery. His expertise focuses on strategic review, asset management and asset divestment provided to banks, private equity firms, high net worth individuals, pension funds, developers and public sector bodies throughout the UK.​

Gordon is a Chartered Surveyor and has over 10 years of Real Estate experience and has worked on over 250 LPA Fixed Charge Receivership appointments by secured lenders over UK Real Estate (and associated interests), Advising clients on optimal disposal strategies such as private treaty, auction and refinance of assets ranging from £100k – £70m.​

Gordon joined KR8 from a global consultancy firm and was previously at a national firm of Chartered Surveyors where he spent seven years specialising in Receivership and Recoveries of assets nationwide. ​

Matthew Mills

Director

Matthew Mills

Director

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Matt Mills is a Director in the Restructuring practice. Based in London, but working across the UK, he has over 12 years of experience in turnaround advisory and formal corporate restructuring. 

With extensive experience advising lenders, directors and stakeholders, he has helped clients deal with challenges across various sectors, with recent experience including retail, FCA regulated and real estate sectors. Matt has led several high profile engagements and worked to achieve positive results for clients. 

Prior to KR8 Advisory, Matt was a senior manager of a UK turnaround and advisory division of a global professional services firm.  

Matt is an FCCA-qualified accountant and qualified / licenced insolvency practitioner. 

Tom Bond

Director

Tom Bond

Director

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Tom brings over 13 years’ experience in turnaround advisory and corporate restructuring.

Having previously spent eight years working in the UK turnaround and advisory division of a global professional services firm, Tom has extensive expertise in advising lenders, directors and other stakeholders through challenging situations in sectors including retail, manufacturing, engineering, automotive, pharmaceutical and hospitality.

Tom has led several high-profile engagements and is dedicated to achieving positive results for his clients, including both solvent and insolvent solutions.

Stephen Henry

Director

Stephen Henry

Director

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Stephen is a Director in the Advisory and Restructuring practice. 

Having previously spent 10 years working in Corporate Banking, Stephen spent the last 18 years working in the UK turnaround and advisory division of a global professional services firm.

Stephen has worked for a wide range of lenders, including asset-based lenders, banks, secondary lenders, and private equity funders and is dedicated to achieving positive results for his clients, including both solvent and insolvent solutions.

Stephen has extensive expertise in advising directors and stakeholders through challenging situations in sectors including, property, retail, manufacturing, engineering, automotive and hospitality and has led several high-profile and complex engagements across the UK.

Hamza Shabir

Associate Director

Hamza Shabir

Associate Director

Hamza is an Associate Director within KR8’s Advisory team, bringing over 10 years’ experience across audit, deal advisory, and restructuring. He has advised management teams, lenders, and other stakeholders on a range of complex and high-profile situations.

Prior to joining KR8, Hamza spent five years in PwC’s restructuring practice, working on high-profile engagements. His experience includes supporting clients with contingency planning, liquidity management, and stakeholder negotiations.

Hamza is an ICAEW Chartered Accountant with experience delivering debt advisory assignments, strategic options analysis, special situation M&A processes, and independent business reviews across a broad range of sectors.

Lucy Edwards

Associate Director

Lucy Edwards

Associate Director

Lucy is an Associate Director in our restructuring advisory team, with 8 years of experience in business restructuring advisory  including a recent secondment   to a national private equity firm.   

Before joining KR8, Lucy held roles at both Kroll Advisory and BDO LLP. 

Lucy’s expertise includes independent business reviews, strategic options analysis, pre-lend reviews and special situations M&A. 

She is an ICAEW Chartered Accountant and has completed the Certificate of Proficiency in Insolvency.

Roberto Ponti

Associate Director

Roberto Ponti

Associate Director

Roberto is an Associate Director in the KR8 Advisory team.  He brings 8 years of experience in finance roles, notably restructuring and M&A. 

Prior to joining, Roberto was part of Grant Thornton and more recently RSM, where he contributed to the growth of the Special Situations M&A offering. 

Roberto has experience advising on business disposals and fundraisings, particularly in complex and accelerated transactions. Recent deals include:

  • The sale of JJO PLC, a national EOT-owned furniture manufacturing business. 
  • The carve-outs of two non-core subsidiaries of the property firm Osborne Group, to recapitalise its balance sheet.

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