Finance Monthly M&A Awards 2019 - Winners Edition

FINANCE MONTHLY M&A AWARDS 2019 FIRM PROFILE Turpin Barker Armstrong “(TBA”) is a firm of licensed insolvency practitioners based in Sutton, Surrey and offering advice to both companies and individuals across the UK. TBA has three qualified insolvency practitioners with expertise in both corporate insolvency and personal insolvency and is able to deal with any type of assignment in terms of size, complexity and sector Many individuals and businesses experience financial difficulties at some point and it is important to be able to seek advice at the earliest opportunity. The pressure of dealing with issues such as a bad debt, creditor pressure, cashflow problems and the loss of key customers can be overwhelming and getting sound advice is essential in these circumstances. This can alleviate the stress for those involved and enables a clear strategy to be established. In many cases TBA has been able to act on an advisory basis in order to reach the best outcome without the need for a formal insolvency procedure. This is often helpful when relationships between different stakeholders breakdown and TBAcan intervene to achieve a resolution for the best interests of all parties. However, when required, TBA have experience will all forms of insolvency appointments, including: • Bankruptcy and individual voluntary arrangements; • Partnership and company voluntary arrangements; • Administrations • Insolvent liquidations – voluntary and compulsory • Solvent liquidations • LPA Receiver www.turpinbainsolvency.co.uk INSOLVENCY ADVISER OF THE YEAR UNITED KINGDOM ANDREW BAILEY Andrew has worked in the insolvency sector for over 15 years providing advice to both corporate and individual clients and has experience of dealing with various aspects of insolvency from an advisory perspective to the formal insolvency procedures. His work has included dealing with personal insolvency matters including bankruptcies, individual voluntary arrangements and advice cases for charitable organisations. Andrew has extensive experience of business recovery procedures including solvent and insolvent liquidations, company and partnership voluntary arrangements and administrations. In addition, Andrew has worked on a number of Land and Property Act Receiver assignments. His clients range from small SMEs to group structures and his notable assignments in the last few years include the restructuring of two of the largest cosmetic surgery groups in the UK and advisory cases involving established international businesses and high street names. Andrew is also often engaged by creditors who become involved in insolvency processes and want their interests represented with comprehensive investigations into the circumstances of the failure or the conduct of those involved. 45