TMA UK

In 2017 TMA UK launched a self-administering regional board of directors dedicated to promoting the quality networking and thought leadership that is the cornerstone of TMA UK.

We now have directors with responsibility for regions in East Midlands, West Midlands, Scotland, North East, Thames Valley, Yorkshire, Manchester & North West, South East Counties and London.

We are always on the lookout for quality people to fill places on boards in other cities across the UK. If you are interested in creating a board or sponsoring a board please contact our president Andrew Pepper or Nyree Magill on 0844 804 0116.

East Midlands

Robin Johnston

Associate, Buckles Solicitors

Robin is a company commercial solicitor specialising in business turnaround, rescue and recoveries. He joined Buckles Solicitors in 2016 and is based in their Nottingham office.

Kelly Hamill

Head of Sales East Midlands, Bibby Financial

Kelly has a wealth of industry experience and previously worked for two of the larger Banks before taking over as Head of Sales in 2014. With experience of Trade, Export and Invoice Finance.

Harry Moore

NMS Consulting (Europe) Ltd

Richard Norton

Proprietor, R&E Finance

Richard has over 20 years’ experience working with a wide cross section of industries including construction, leisure and manufacturing. He has a vast experience of the “highs” and “lows”.

Manchester & North West

Stuart Tait - Joint Chair

Gateley Plc

Stuart acts for turnaround and transformation specialists, boards of directors, investors and other key stakeholders. Corporate clients include SMEs, mid-market and large multi-nationals.

Annabel Todd - Joint Chair

Regional Sales Director, BREAL Zeta CF

Annabel is a Regional Sales Director for BREAL Zeta CF based in the Manchester office. Annabel has 13 years’ experience and specialises in complex ABL and structured lending in the mid-market. Annabel is also a Chartered Fellow of The London Institute of Banking and Finance.

Tom Weedall

Blazehill Capital

I lead Blazehill Capital, a special situations focused lender, supporting mid-market businesses with secured debt solutions.

Frank Ofonagoro

Quantuma

Frank leads Quantuma’s Financial Advisory practice in the North West of England, delivering lead corporate advisory and business restructuring mandates for corporate clients. He has over 20 years experience delivering projects in the Financial Advisory, Restructuring and Transaction services arena.

Gemma Quinn

Alvarez & Marsal

Gemma is a Senior Director in Alvarez & Marsal’s Restructuring practice in Manchester. She has 20 years of experience providing restructuring support and advice to underperforming businesses and their stakeholders. She has also worked on numerous formal insolvency appointments and contingency planning over a wide range of sectors. Gemma is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a Licensed Insolvency Practitioner.

North East

Andrew Cawkwell

Manolete Partners PLC

Andrew is a genuine all round Restructuring and Insolvency lawyer and has been described by Chambers & Partners guide as a leader in his field.

Tonya Allison

FRP Advisory LLP

“I am a qualified insolvency practitioner at FRP Advisory LLP based in the North East area with over 10 years’ experience in turnaround and insolvency.”

Andrew Dyson

Begbies Traynor

In 2010, Andrew came to work as an Insolvency Administrator in Newcastle branch of Begbies Traynor. He was promoted to the position of Manager in 2017. Andrew covers a cross section of Corporate & Personal Insolvency work.

Lorna Ford

KPMG

Lorna joined KPMG in 2006 and after starting her career in the audit department, transferred to Deal Advisory in 2009.

Kelly Jordan

Muckle LLP

Kelly has ten years’ experience of dealing with all aspects of contentious and non-contentions insolvency work although primarily in advisory and transactional work.

Allan Kelly

RSM

Allan is restructuring partner. He works with company stakeholders including management, shareholders, equity sponsors and debt providers to preserve and enhance value.

Scotland

Steven Jansch

Gilson Gray LLP

As an accredited insolvency specialist lawyer, I regularly appear in the Court of Session as a Solicitor Advocate insolvency litigator.

Emily Muir

SIA Group

South East Counties

Rebecca Walker

Lester Aldridge

Partner in the Restructuring & Insolvency department at Lester Aldridge LLP with a focus on solvent and insolvent corporate restructurings.

Brian Burke

Director, Quantuma LLP

Brian is a licensed insolvency practitioner at Quantuma LLP. He has spent over 20 years’ dealing with business owners, corporates and individuals. His experience includes delivering advisory solutions, turnaround and restructuring, and formal insolvency processes across a wide range of industries.

Kevin Counihan

SIA Group

Experienced Valuer and Disposal Agent with over 15 years’ experience in the insolvency industry, London and the South East providing tangible and intangible asset valuation advice.

Andy Leopold

Close Brothers

Head of Commercial Sales at Close Brothers Invoice Finance who offer invoice finance and asset based solutions on new starts up to £65M funds in use.

Helen Martin

Stevens & Bolton LLP

Helen is a senior associate solicitor at Stevens & Bolton LLP, specialising in non-contentious restructuring, refinancing and insolvency.

Thames Valley

Jonathan Hughes

Regional Sales Director, Leumi ABL Ltd

Jonathan is Regional Sales Director for Leumi ABL. He has been writing mid-market Invoice Discounting & Asset Based Lending for over twenty years, and is keen to support businesses requiring £2M plus

Nick Callaghan

Turnaround Director, Burles Business Management

An experienced hands-on CRO/interim manager who calmly delivers results for stakeholders in crisis situations by working with the Executive team, at speed, to develop a plan, restructure the business through change and in parallel, where necessary, support refinancing, asset disposal and sale. As a former CEO, has first-hand experience of implementing rapid change and empathy for management teams who find themselves in this space for the first time. As a professional CRO, focused on tight cash control to buy time, whilst delivering the recovery plan and managing the stakeholders to ensure buy-in across the board. Ideal Assignments - Leading an organisation through a financial and/or operational restructuring. Working on the right hand of the CEO to deliver a recovery/turnaround. Enhancing executive teams in response to short/medium term stakeholder pressure. Growth challenges which require improvements in people, processes or financial resources.

Nicola Kirk

Partner, Gateley Plc

Nicola specialises in all aspects of contentious and non-contentious insolvency, restructuring, refinancing, turnaround, fraud, dispute resolution and transaction advisory work.

Chris Newell

Partner, Quantuma Plc

I am a licensed insolvency practitioner and accountant and have extensive experience dealing with companies in financial difficulty predominately in the SME sector.

Tim Townley

BDO

West Midlands

TMA West Midlands is a vibrant region and developing region. We typically have a mix of events across the year that educate, inform and entertain, as well as social events in the course of the year.

Diana Frangou

Partner, RSM

Diana is a Restructuring Advisory Partner at RSM with over 25 years’ experience working with distressed corporates, ABLs, banks and other intermediaries across a broad range of sectors on a regional and national basis.

Nick Hammond

Director, Colliers International

Head of Advisory & Restructuring at Colliers, providing real estate restructuring, turnaround and insolvency advice to lenders, corporates and practitioners across all UK property sectors

Nick Hutton

Management Consultant, Leslie Keats

Nick Hutton is a Management Consultant with Leslie Keats providing restructuring, recovery and advisory services to the insolvency and turnaround community. As well as providing advice to banks, financial institutions, niche funders and ABL’s. Nick is a fully qualified accountant (FCCA) and also a licensed (non-appointment taking) Insolvency Practitioner (ICAEW).

Yorkshire

The TMA Yorkshire board is planning to host quarterly meetings, combining relevant topics and social networking to build links across the local restructuring and turnaround community. We look forward to seeing more members and guests at forthcoming events in the coming months. In the meantime, we are always receptive to ideas for events and will incorporate these where practical.

Richard Leach

Restructuring Director, RSM

Richard has over ten years of experience in advising banks and companies in relation to all aspects of financial restructuring including review; options analysis; forecasting and raising finance.

Samuel Dixon

Managing Associate, Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP

"Sam is a restructuring solicitor at Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP with over ten years' experience. He is also a qualified (non-practising) insolvency practitioner and has experience of working in the turnaround team of a clearing bank. He specialises in advising various stakeholders in relation to distressed businesses, charities and providers of public services with significant sector experience in education, healthcare and technology."