Morning sessions
- Chair's opening remarks
- 9:15
- Valuation & investment oversight
- 9:20
- Aspects of valuation analysis
- 10:05
- Break
- 10:45
- How technology benefits the future of valuations
- 11:05
- The role of valuations in debt restructurings
- 11:50
- Break
- 12:30
Afternoon sessions
- Economic update
- 13:30
- Assessing country risk at a time of geopolitical crisis
- 14:35
- Break
- 15:15
- Valuing football clubs
- 15:35
- Closing comments
- 16:15
- Close
- 16:20
Our Speakers
Frances Haque is the Chief Economist for Santander UK responsible for the economic analysis and macroeconomic forecasts used by the retail bank. Her team are responsible for developing: the analysis of economic risk scenarios to support the Prudential Regulatory Authority stress test and IFRS 9 processes; analysis for planning and strategic purposes; supporting the external customer work of the bank including speaking at a variety of events; and writing for external publications. She has also been appointed to the FCA’s CBA Panel.
Nick leads the Retail, Consumer and Leisure team of the UK Valuations practice of PwC in London, with 17 years experience advising clients on valuations of business, assets and shares for the purposes of transactions, disputes, financial reporting, and tax purposes. He has worked with clubs in the Premier League, Championship, League One, and in Europe, as well as carrying out valuations for sports organisations, leagues, sports agencies and sports data analytics / technology platforms.
Jo Hewitt is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Restructuring in London. She has over 18 years of experience advising boards and stakeholders of distressed organisations in restructuring situations, in addition to serving in insolvency appointments. Jo helps clients react rapidly to urgent business issues, develop effective contingency planning and strategically engage with stakeholders in both consensual and non-consensual situations. She specialises in complex restructurings and insolvencies in the UK and has extensive experience in cross-border restructurings.
Nick Forrest is a partner leading Baringa’s economics team with a focus on financial economics. He was previously chief economist at PwC and spent 10 years in PwC's valuation team. He has developed country risk models, which have been used for valuation, commercial disputes and regulatory determinations. During Covid-19 and the Ukraine-Russia war, Nick provided media commentary, publications and presentations on the global economic impacts.
Kate is a Partner in Kirkland's European Restructuring Group. Kate has extensive restructuring and insolvency experience, including advising strategic investors, insolvency practitioners, turnaround managers, directors, debtors and creditors in all forms of national and international financial restructurings and insolvencies.
Yann has more than 25 years of experience in the Corporate Finance/Financial Advisory industry and working in and with the Alternative Investment Funds industry at the global level. At 73 Strings, he is responsible for defining strategic initiatives for the business, as well as overseeing key engagements, relationships and operations. He has been speaker at several leading industry forums on various financial advisory topics. Yann is also chairman of the IVSC Europe board.
Andrea brings over 22 years of experience designing and delivering bespoke finance training programs. She began her investment banking career in the M&A team at Lehman Brothers, overseeing private equity as well as media and technology transactions. Andrea left the industry to start her instructing career, managing AMT Training globally. She then joined Financial Edge in 2018 as managing director and instructor.
Neil is the Head of Private Markets Risk & Valuations at Railpen where he sits on the Investment Committees for private market investments and is a member of the Valuation Committee. He developed Railpen’s valuation team with a focus on integrating valuations as part of the broader investment risk function to facilitate robust and ongoing investment stewardship and asset management. He has over 10 years of valuations and transaction experience across a variety of asset classes.
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Top rate speakers, excellent mix of technical and practical content well delivered.
Excellent range of topics.
As always an enjoyable session, familiar subjects with the insights of some of the leading individuals in the industry. Useful to join as a refresher for re-assurance but also for the little gems which can only improve on works going forward.