James is an experienced restructuring professional who specialises in advising companies facing financial challenges. He has over 17 years’ experience in assessing options for businesses, managing interactions between management and key stakeholders and developing detailed contingency plans to protect value.As well as providing hands-on support for corporates and their boards, he has worked extensively with financial investors, creditor groups, regulators and public sector stakeholders to help them stabilise businesses, generate additional cash headroom and preserve/enhance investment value or minimise lending/other risk.He has had many successes in preserving jobs and keeping businesses intact (either through an insolvency process or outside). He is a qualified insolvency practitioner and originally qualified as a Chartered Accountant.He is adept at co-ordinating large teams, driving insightful analysis and identifying/prioritising issues and solving problems as they emerge in real time. Working across a broad range of sectors in the UK, his recent experience includes aviation, real estate, infrastructure, oil & gas, retail, industrial manufacturing, engineering, railways and energy.