Example experience

• Liquidation of an insolvent Auckland-based civil construction business, with actions including the orderly realisation of all assets including fixed assets and trade debtors, and distributions to secured, preferential and unsecured creditors.
• Liquidation of a fine dining restaurant, with actions including the sale of the business as a going concern, and distributions to secured and preferential creditors.
• Voluntary administration of a group of entities providing manufacturing services for local and international customers, with actions including the trading on of the businesses for sale, the completion of a sale approved by creditors under a deed of company arrangement, which also included a creditor compromise, and distributions to all creditors.
• Voluntary administration of an entity involved in the export of timber to international customers, with actions including the execution of a deed of company arrangement and distributions to unsecured creditors.
• Receivership of a group of entities operating early learning centers, with actions including the trading on of the centers for sale and distributions to all creditors.
• Receivership of commercial and residential property holding company, with actions including property sell down and the full repayment of the appointing lender.
• Receivership of an entity operating dairy farms, the sell down of business assets and the full repayment of the appointing lender.
• Receivership of an entity operating a boarding house, with actions including the sale of the business as a going concern, and distributions to secured creditors.
• Independent business review of a business involved in transport and property development.
• Provision of advice on security arrangements to a lender in relation to carbon credits.
• Debt negotiations on behalf of a borrower with a bank, and the subsequent write down of debt.

Memberships and Qualifications

• Chartered Accountant, Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand (CA ANZ)
• Licensed Insolvency Practitioner
• Member, Restructuring Insolvency and Turnaround Association of New Zealand (RITANZ)
• Member, Institute of Directors
• Master of Management Studies
• Bachelor of Management Studies
• Former Committee Member, Forensic Accounting Special Interest Group (CA ANZ)