Course Details

An overview of restructuring options available to companies in financial difficulties.  The vast majority of recent restructuring appointments having been liquidations of insolvent companies.  There are a number of restructuring tools available to businesses to consider when faced in financial difficulty and this session aims to provide an overview of each of those tools, who they work and the various situations in which they can be applied. The overview will enable financial advisors to understand the options available to their clients, how they work and what to consider when assisting their client overcome financial difficulty.

  

In this course Colm Dolan covers the following topics:

Overview of the current market and an update on what Grant Thornton are seeing in the insolvency space

 

An overview of the restructuring tools available, being an overview of each of – 

    • Consensual restructure 
    • Examinership
    • SCARP
    • Liquidation 
    • Receivership

 

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Grant Thornton

Colm Dolan

Colm is a Chartered Accountant and Registered Insolvency Practitioner with 10+ years’ experience specialising in restructuring and insolvency and financial advisory engagements across Ireland and Australia. He supports a broad range of clients (including financial institutions, large corporate groups and SMEs and government agencies) and has a diverse range of experience including corporate insolvency, independent accountant reports, pre-lending reviews, informal wind-downs, debt advisory, restructuring / turnaround services and commercial / investment advice. Colm has significant experience and a particular focus on advising companies and directors of their statutory obligations and duties to protect their personal positions in insolvency scenarios and formulating workable solutions for companies facing financial difficulty. Colm has lead a number of SCARP assignments and has acted as liquidator in both solvent and insolvent liquidations. In addition to the above, Colm also advises secured creditors in SCARP processes, companies in financial difficulty and options analysis in insolvency scenarios. Colm has assisted early stage development and established companies in sectors including, amongst others, construction and real estate, insurance, professional services, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, distribution and retail.