Mark Hawken Email & Phone Number

London, GB

London, England, United Kingdom

Ankura’s Turnaround & Restructuring practice focuses on supporting businesses across a variety of industries facing urgent and complex challenges. The practice aligns with and strengthens the firm’s strategy of providing its clients with local, highly qualified teams with deep, independent experience. The European team builds on the success of the US.

London, United Kingdom

BCG TURN is a specialist unit of BCG that was set up to extend BCG’s capabilities into corporate transformation and turnaround. The TURN team draws upon its situational experience and BCG’s existing sector expertise to support clients through challenging operational and financial restructuring.

Director, CFO and co-founder of Go Car Credit, where, together with the CEO, PE investors and leadership team, successfully managed the acquisition, carve out and return to growth of a UK specialist motor finance lender.Achievements included: acquisition and integration of a licenced consumer credit lending company with the assets, staff, IP and lending.

London, United Kingdom

Managing Director in the Turnaround & Restructuring Services division of AlixPartners, the global professional service firm specialising in helping clients overcome complex operational and financial issues, creating value and restoring performance at every stage of the business life cycle.Roles covered a wide variety of urgent and challenging situations.

London

Relationship director for private equity and corporate clients, originating and executing leveraged / acquisition finance transactions to support M&A in the media and communications sectors. Managed deal teams to execute financing transactions; evaluated business plans and developed investment thesis to gain internal approval; structured, negotiated and.

• Primary relationship director for selected FTSE 100 telecoms and media companies
• Delivered solutions to clients across all Barcap debt and risk management offerings
• Provided sector expertise / deal support to Financial Sponsor and Country teams.
• Led team to deliver risk management solutions to public sector through the Shareholder Executive & MoD

• Origination and execution of structured lending in TMT sector.
• Worked closely with Corporate Finance on equity opportunities.
• Executed both vanilla and tax enhanced financing structures.
• Team awarded “Telecoms Loan House of the Year” by IFR.

London, United Kingdom

• Qualified as a Chartered Accountant.
• Specialised in restructuring, turnaround and acquisition due diligence.
• Hands on experience of running a variety of distressed businesses.
• Founding team member of Turnaround division and Turnaround Fund JV with HSBC.