Day 1: Tuesday 25 June
- Opening remarks
- 09:30
- The Insolvency Service update
- 09:35
- Understanding the current economic environment for businesses and consumers
- 10:15
- Break
- 10:55
- Session to be announced
- 11:15
- Navigating restructuring and insolvency in financial services: strategies for success in this key regulated sector
- 11:55
- Closing remarks
- 12:35
Day 2: Wednesday 26 June
- Opening remarks
- 09:30
- The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 – an Implementation Update
- 09:35
- FTX lessons learned: 2 years on
- 10:15
- Break
- 10:55
- Tackling director and corporate wrongdoing
- 11:15
- Casual Dining - the boiling frog effect
- 11:55
- Closing remarks
- 12:35
Conference Chairs
Becky is a licensed insolvency practitioner and chartered accountant with over 20 years of experience advising businesses in the Midlands and London. She helps owner-managed businesses and medium-sized companies across a wide range of sectors, with a particular specialism in healthcare providers, retail, automotive/aerospace, engineering and construction-related trades. Becky regularly advises on solvent restructuring and group rationalisation.
Tom is a chartered accountant, licensed insolvency practitioner and in 2007 co-founded BABR (formerly known as Bailey Ahmad Business Recovery). BABR specialises in delivering insolvency, commercial finance and debt recovery solutions to SMEs, funders and professionals.
Our speakers
Dave began working in the insolvency sector in 1997 and in 2005 became one of the country’s youngest insolvency practitioners, taking formal appointments at David Horner & Co. In 2010 Dave created Broadbents Business Recovery Services with Andrew Peace and in 2015, their business was purchased by Begbies Traynor. Dave specialises in small- to medium-sized owner-managed businesses, using the experience and skills obtained from a number of years within the sector, as well as those gained from running his own company. Whether it’s a PAYE employee, a self-employed trader or a director of a limited company, Dave takes pride in being able to find a number of solutions to a wide range of problems.
Nicky is a Senior Associate in PwC's Restructuring and Insolvency Team, specialising in Data and Technology. Nicky has first-hand experience in leveraging innovative solutions to tackle complex global challenges in the insolvency space. Her expertise is in the use of data analytics and Generative AI in the transformation of large-scale insolvencies improving efficiency, strengthening security, and accelerating processes
Jason has 15 years’ experience in advising creditors, companies and regulators in navigating restructuring and insolvency situations. He has significant experience in financial services restructuring, resolution, wind down, non-core carve out and insolvency. Jason is currently working on the liquidation of FTX in the Bahamas. Jason’s wider restructuring advisory experience include Ambatovy, McColls, AS Adventure, Interserve, Thomas Cook plc, Co-Op Bank, Stemcor, OW Bunker and Lehman.
Ed is a restructuring partner with over 25 years’ experience and with significant expertise in financial services. He is one of the Lehman administrators, is heavily involved in the insolvency of FTX, led aspects of restructuring work for Co-op Bank at the time of its capital shortfall, is dealing with the run-off and residual issues of UKAR (Bradford & Bingley and Northern Rock) and has worked across central and eastern Europe, Africa and the Caribbean region on various restructurings in financial services.
Dave has over 25 years of experience in law enforcement and currently serves as the Director of Investigation and Enforcement Services at The Insolvency Service. In this role, he leads teams across Great Britain that employ a range of civil and criminal powers to address financial misconduct by corporate entities and company directors. He oversees specialised functions, including Intelligence, Asset Recovery (POCA), and Digital Forensics. His department remains focused on addressing Covid-related fraud, expanding its response to support the enforcement of new Economic Crime powers, and establishing a team dedicated to anti-money laundering efforts.
Adam is a partner and Insolvency Practitioner at S&W (previously known as Evelyn Partners). In his approaching 25 year career he has specialised in financial services restructurings, as well as not-for-profit enterprises. He has been special administrator under the IBSA regime four times, worked closely with many stakeholder bodies and conducted insolvencies on a range of regulated businesses including insurance brokers, wealth managers, e-money and e-payment firms, trade finance, banks, FX traders, critical IT suppliers, and commodity brokers. He is also one of the administrators of London Capital & Finance.
Martin joined Companies House (CH) in 2019 having spent 26 years working for the Welsh Government, most recently working on criminal justice and community safety. Martin led the Policy, Strategy and External Communications functions at CH for 4 years, leading the agency’s contribution to the development of the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act and the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act. Martin now leads the Intelligence and Law Enforcement Engagement Directorate, implementing the creation of a new Intelligence Hub, developing a new approach to compliance and enforcement and leading on the implementation of the Register of Overseas Entities.
With over 20 years of experience specialising in macroeconomic and econometric analysis, Suren oversees ICAEW’s thought leadership and initiatives on the UK economy and is a regular media commentator. He supports delivery of ICAEW’s renowned Business Confidence Monitor and presents the latest economic trends at ICAEW events and for key stakeholders. Prior to joining ICAEW, he spent nine years heading the economics team at the British Chambers of Commerce.
Testimonials
As usual this ICAEW conference has been excellent. It brings topical insolvency issues and communicates these to the insolvency community.
Overall, an excellent event. Splitting the conference over two mornings was a hit.
The virtual nature of the conference made it good value for money and time efficient whilst enabling a good update on current topics
Great range of issues covered with excellent insight on topical matters. Well worth attending.
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