PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP // Hospitality crushes, where is the next drink coming from?
| Wednesday, June 12, 2024 |
| 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM |
| The Northern Club - Wintergarden |
Details
Imagine that you are put into the driving seat of a company that is facing an existence threatening crisis within an industry that is burdened by harsh trading circumstances. The appointment brief is to strip away the noise of the claimants and focus on determining the viability of the business. Then to engage across all economically relevant stakeholders to find a pathway through the morass and achieve the best possible outcome for those stakeholders. Along the way, new information will surface, supporting dynamics will change, and surprising obstructions will be encountered. These must be overcome by you with reference to the powers and duties that you hold (and any leverage that you might be able to create), while at the same time staying as firm as you can be, to the objective that is consistent with your appointment.
The Masterclass to which you are invited explores the framework from which you are required to operate, the options that you must explore to derive the best value, and the issues you may confront from the various stakeholders. The challenges facing you will demand you pay attention to the three formal states of insolvency while being mindful of third-party security interests and directorial duties. You will work in small teams to consider and devise a strategy to achieve your desired outcome.
The panel convened to provide detail and guidance for this workshop brings forward a wealth of knowledge and experience. The facilitator for this event is Larissa Logan - a highly competent Insolvency Practitioner with over a decade of experience in turnaround and restructuring. Larissa will lead a panel of lawyers and insolvency practitioners that bring to the workshop highly relevant and practical specialist skills.
Come away from the workshop feeling that you have learned not only valuable and immediately useable information, but nuanced perspectives that will show you in a new light amongst your peers and the clients for who you are seeking to achieve results (and hopefully made some new friends and contacts along the way).
Speaker
Aaron Harlowe
Couch Harlowe Kovacevich
Hospitality crushes, where is the next drink coming from?
Biography
Stephen Keen
Grant Thornton
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP // Hospitality crushes, where is the next drink coming from?
Biography
Stephen is a Partner in the Grant Thornton Financial Advisory Services team in Auckland. Stephen has over ten years’ experience working in New Zealand and the United Kingdom, specialising in restructuring, asset recovery and insolvency engagements.
Stephen is also regularly engaged to undertake operational, financial and investigative reviews for corporates, banks and government entities.
Larissa Logan
Director
Fixity Limited
Hospitality crushes, where is the next drink coming from?
Biography
Alex MacDuff
Russell McVeagh
Hospitality crushes, where is the next drink coming from?
Biography
Alex is a restructuring and insolvency specialist with 10 years of experience in practice in New Zealand and the UK. He advises on distressed situations across the capital structure, acting on domestic and cross-border matters, including in disputes arising out of those situations.
Janet Sprosen
PwC
Hospitality crushes, where is the next drink coming from?
Biography
Janet is a director in Business Restructuring Services at PWC. She is a Barrister and Solicitor and Licensed Insolvency Practitioner with 20 years of debt recovery and insolvency experience in the public and private sector. At Inland Revenue Janet was responsible for identifying emerging debt and insolvency issues, designing and implementing recovery strategies, and providing technical and strategic advice. She was also involved in prosecutions and recovering debt from taxpayers who had left New Zealand. Janet has led and managed multiple insolvency assignments, including trading businesses, across a range of industries. Her focus is on pragmatic solutions that achieve the best outcome for creditors and stakeholders.
Bryan Williams
BWA Insolvency Ltd
Hospitality crushes, where is the next drink coming from?
Biography
Bryan is the Founder and Principal of BWA Insolvency Limited. The practice commenced in 1992 as a new entrant in the then unregulated insolvency industry in New Zealand. Over the 32 years of practice, Bryan has grown inside the industry as it became regulated and is a registered Insolvency Practitioner.
BWA is a small boutique practice, with six employees. Bryan has a passion for business reconstruction, recovery, and rehabilitation and the potential for the Voluntary Administration regime to achieve those outcomes. Over the years, Bryan has built a strong and productive relationship with Banks, Inland Revenue and Regulators in New Zealand resulting in trust and confidence being counterpart to any engagement.
From Auckland University, Bryan was awarded a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in 1991 and a Master of Commercial Law (M.Com.Law) in June of 2000. In 2021 Bryan was admitted into the Global Insolvency Practice course conducted by INSOL International and was awarded the status of being an INSOL Fellow at the Tokyo Conference in 2024.
