Day 1: Tuesday 25 June
- Opening remarks
- 09:30
- The AI effect: What will artificial intelligence mean for the work of accountants?
- 09:35
- Insolvency Service update
- 10:25
- Break
- 11:05
- Shifting employee expectations and redefining ‘normal’ in the workplace
- 11:20
- Sector focus – construction
- 12:00
- Closing remarks
- 12:40
Day 2: Wednesday 26 June
- Opening remarks
- 09:30
- Restructuring tax – the expense, the claim and the value add
- 09:35
- Are you a professional enabler?
- 10:15
- Break
- 10:55
- Turning the corner – a brighter economic outlook
- 11:15
- Bounce Back Loan abuse
- 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
Dean has worked in the insolvency sector for over 25 years. As CEO of the Insolvency Service, Dean has overseen some of the largest and most complex insolvency cases dealt with in the UK, including British Steel and Thomas Cook, as well as high-profile enforcement actions against the directors of Carillion and the prosecution of Boris Becker for bankruptcy offences. Prior to being appointed as CEO in 2019, Dean was the Director of Strategy and Change, overseeing policy development, regulation of the insolvency sector and leading the agency’s transformation programme.
Daniel’s aim is to help firms and professionals understand and develop the skill sets that will enable them to thrive in a world shaped by rapidly changing technology. To achieve this, he draws on over thirty years’ experience in a wide range of roles covering finance, management, HR and professional education, gained with blue-chip firms including EY, Goldman Sachs and BPP.
Louise has over 20 years HR experience. Starting her career in recruitment, she broadened her skill set to cover Employee Relations, Learning & Development and Organisational Development when she worked with the Arcadia Group. Louise has been working with BABR since 2018 and following the pandemic has been at the forefront of working with Tom and BABR's leadership team in transitioning from a single office location to a virtual 'bring work to people' model.
Richard Dillea is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Tax, LLP in Manchester. He brings over 20 years of experience in restructuring tax. Richard’s notable assignments include a hive down sale of a haulage company; a group restructuring that preserved value in a construction company; the restructuring of syndicated debt for a manufacturing business; reorganising the UK operations within a global group; and overseeing the tax input in AMA processes in electric vehicles and software development sectors.
Michelle is ICAEW’s Head of AML with operational responsibility for the AML supervision of ICAEW’s 11,000 AML-supervised firms. She is co-Chair of the Accountancy AML Supervisors Group and was Chair of the AML Supervisors’ Forum in 2021. Michelle qualified as a chartered accountant in 2005, completing her training contract at a Big Four firm and working within audit for professional services firms.
Adele is a chartered accountant and licensed insolvency practitioner, and is part of Teneo’s Financial Advisory team in Scotland. Adele focuses on mid-market restructuring and insolvency work, and also has experience delivering complex expert witness engagements. Recent sector experience includes retail, infrastructure and construction.
Dave joined The Insolvency Service in March 2022 as the Director of Investigation and Enforcement Services. He leads the agency's civil and criminal investigation capability and is currently focused on preparing the organisation for the change created by Companies House reform and the new offences contained within the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act. Before taking up this role, Dave spent 20 years working with Immigration Enforcement tackling organised immigration crime.
Gavin is a chartered accountant and licensed insolvency practitioner, leading Teneo’s Financial Advisory team in Scotland. Gavin works across a range of sectors and undertakes both corporate and creditor advisory work, as well as formal insolvency appointments. Gavin’s recent experience includes mandates in the construction, hospitality, food manufacturing and industrial sectors.
Tom is RSM UK’s economist. He provides economic insights from a middle market perspective, to both RSM and its clients. Tom works closely with RSM partners across the UK, as well as with colleagues in the US to monitor how changes across the pond could affect the local market. After graduating from the University of Manchester in 2009, he went to work for HM Treasury. This was right in the middle of the financial crisis, so he was assigned to help redraft the banking regulations. He then spent eight years at Capital Economics, where he first covered commodities (mainly oil), then the UK economy in the wake of Brexit and the onset of the pandemic.
Testimonials
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.
The standard of this conference was very good - it was professional, the subjects were delivered in a succinct and clear manner, and the guest speakers were simply excellent. The two mornings challenged behaviours and thought and left me wanting to tell others about what I had learned.
An extremely insightful and topical event!
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