Natalie Campbell is an award-winning social entrepreneur and broadcaster. She is the Co-CEO of Belu Water (an ethical water brand), the former Director of Insight and Innovation at The Royal Foundation, and she founded a global social innovation agency A Very Good Company (AVGC). She is a proud disruptor of ‘business as usual’ and challenges clients to put purpose, sustainability, and inclusion at the heart of their work.

Dean has worked in insolvency for over 25 years in a variety of roles. He has been an Official Receiver, acting as a trustee in bankruptcy and liquidator, and has undertaken many insolvency-related investigations. In addition to his public sector experience, Dean has also spent time in the private sector as a forensic accountant investigating fraud and managing commercial disputes.

Bethan advises insurance companies and their insureds on all aspects of cyber incident management including pre breach preparation, cyber breach response and post breach commercial and data litigation. Having completed a 7 month secondment at a market leading cyber/tech insurer she has a unique insight into what clients require and delivers commercially focussed advice on breach response strategy and legal/regulatory requirements.

With a wide-ranging background in economics, Suren oversees ICAEW’s economic thought leadership work and is a regular commentator on the UK economy featuring regularly on television and radio and in the national press. Suren also directs ICAEW’s policy work on trade, technology and financial services.

Jo re-joined Buchler Phillips in April 2021 after a break of 25 years, having spent her formative years with the practice in 1991-1995. Since then, she spent 8 years as a Partner in leading independent firms, as well as gaining valuable Senior level experience with Smith & Williamson and PwC. An Insolvency Appointment taker since 2004, she is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales and a Licensed Insolvency Practitioner.

David Buchler is a Chartered Accountant and Insolvency Practitioner, with some 40 years of experience in the field of Insolvency and Corporate Turnaround. He was a Partner at Arthur Andersen prior to becoming a Founding Partner of Buchler Phillips, one of the UK’s leading financial recovery and restructuring specialists, which was acquired in 1999 by the world’s leading risk mitigation firm, Kroll Inc.

David is a partner and key member of the London and International Restructuring practice of DLA Piper. He has 20+ years’ experience in non-contentious restructuring, insolvency and special situations assignments acting for corporates, clearing banks, international and investment banks, debt and hedge funds. He has advised in relation to a number of domestic and cross-border workouts and assignments taking in, in the last 12 months alone, schemes and restructuring plans in Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and, the topic of today, the UK by way of the Part 26A Restructuring Plan.

As a qualified accountant (FCCA) and restructuring professional (JIEB) Cassie has a broad range of experience across multiple sectors, including natural resources, energy and public sector, with experience of working at pace with government in relation to complex critical national infrastructure and distressed financial support measures, as part of the special situations team at UK Government Investments.

Jason has 15 years experience in advising creditors, companies and regulators in navigating restructuring and insolvency situations. He has significant experience in financial services, banking and asset wealth management restructuring, resolution, wind down, non core carve out and insolvency. Jason is currently working on the provisional liquidation of FTX in the Bahamas. Jason’s wider restructuring advisory experience includes McColls, AS Adventure, Interserve, Thomas Cook plc, Ambatovy, Stemcor, OW Bunker and Lehman.

Philip Povey is a senior associate in the Special Situations and Financial Restructuring practice at DLA Piper and based in the firm’s London office. His practice focuses on complex cross-border corporate and financial restructurings, special situations and formal insolvency procedures. Philip has considerable experience advising in connection with cram-down processes (including schemes of arrangement, restructuring plans and CVAs), restructurings of public bond debt, work-out negotiations, liability management transactions and formal insolvency / enforcement.

Natalie Peacock is a restructuring and insolvency lawyer in DLA Piper’s Restructuring and Insolvency team and is a specialist in distressed aviation matters. She has experience of a wide range of contentious and non-contentious matters, including formal insolvency matters, financial restructuring, asset-based lending and domestic and cross jurisdictional turnaround matters. Natalie’s practice spans a number of sectors, including aviation, retail, industrial, construction and consumer credit.

Richard is a Partner at RPC and leads the Cyber & Tech Insurance team. He has been dealing with cyber breach incidents since RPC's work in this area began. The team have worked on many hundreds of breaches since then. He has advised on a full range of breach situations at senior levels of a range of insured and other corporate clients.

Jonathan joined UKGI in early 2018 and is part of the Special Situations team which focuses on sectors and corporates where there is a risk of economic shock impact to major employment or assets of national interest and where there is a strategic case for Government intervention. Jonathan has over 20 years’ experience of providing restructuring and insolvency advice to key Government stakeholders in complex distressed situations. A lawyer by background, Jonathan has worked in both national and international law firms.

Ed is a restructuring partner with over 25 years’ experience and with significant expertise in financial services. He is one of the Lehman administrators, is heavily involved in the insolvency of FTX, led aspects of restructuring work for Co-op Bank at the time of its capital shortfall, is dealing with the run-off and residual issues of UKAR (Bradford & Bingley and Northern Rock) and has worked across central and eastern Europe, Africa and the Caribbean region on various restructurings in financial services.

Chris Parker is a Partner at DLA Piper, and co-chair of the Global Restructuring Practice. His desk focuses particularly on formal insolvency processes in a global context, often in relation to the financial services sector. Chris leads the contentious restructuring group in London, working on international fraud and asset recovery, investigations, and litigation in relation to various financial structures.

Becky is a licensed insolvency practitioner and chartered accountant with over 20 years of experience of 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 Bailey Ahmad Business Recovery - who provide solutions for businesses and individuals in financial difficulty, as well as coordinating the structured closure and distribution of assets of successful companies that have come to the end of their life. Tom is also the current ICAEW Croydon District Society President.