Paul Zalkin

Managing Director, Restructuring & Insolvency at Quantuma (UK)

Speaker

Paul is a UK qualified Chartered Accountant, Licenced Insolvency Practitioner and mid-market restructuring professional, with over 20 years’ experience advising stakeholders exposed to the causes and consequences of corporate distress. His areas of technical expertise include balance sheet restructuring, pre-insolvency options analysis, contingency planning, accelerated sale mandates and the implementation of formal insolvency processes as a business restructuring and debt recovery tool. Paul acts for lenders, investors, management teams and a broad range of legal professional.

A significant proportion of Paul’s work involves contentious, special situations, often with an international dimension. Paul has a broad range of sector experience, including real estate investments and developments, light manufacturing and industrial, petro-chemical, hospitality and leisure.

Recent assignment include:

• Acting as day-1 restructuring adviser to a US$6bn turnover global commodity business headquartered in the UAE.
• Acting as restructuring advisor and Administrator of a £100m turnover international chemical manufacturing and distribution group.
• Acting As buy-side adviser to a purchasing consortium acquiring the operational subsidiaries of a US$100m turnover global currency retail business.