The IFT Annual General Meeting is taking place on Tuesday 24th September at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, 65 Fleet Street, London, EC4Y 1HS.
The formal meeting will take place prior to a London and South Members’ meeting.
This year there are two (2) Directors standing-down by rotation, Graham Rusling and Brendan McGeever, and two (2) eligible to be re-elected for a second term, Steve Benger and Tony King.
Timings
Registration: 4:45pm
AGM Start: 5:00pm
AGM Finish: 6:00pm
The next London & South members meeting will be taking place on Tuesday 24th September at the London offices of our Corporate Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
This event will start at 18:30 following the IFT AGM.
‘Brexit – Where we are now and what does it mean for restructurings?’
Speaker:
Rachel Seeley, Freshfields Bruckhaus Derringer
Rachel is a restructuring and insolvency senior associate in the Freshfields Bruckhaus Derringer global transactions group based in London. She has experience acting for lenders, borrowers, administrators, liquidators and other key parties in the restructuring and insolvency market. During her time at Freshfields, Rachel has spent nine months on secondment with Angelo, Gordon Europe LLP and six months on secondment with the firm’s Hong Kong office.
Following significant interest at the 2019 Annual Conference, Andrew Chamberlain will be presenting on IR35 in more detail at our Corporate Partner BDO LLP’s London offices, 55 Baker Street, London, W1U 7EU.
This breakfast meeting will take place on Tuesday 10th September, starting at 08:30 and finishing at 10:00.
Timings:
8.30 – 9.00 Registration & breakfast
9.00 – 9.20 Andrew Chamberlain, IPSE
9.20 – 9.40 Rob Woodward, BDO Global Services Team
9.40 – Q&A
Speakers:
Andrew Chamberlain, IPSE
Deputy Director of Policy and External Affairs at IPSE – The Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed.
Andy is responsible for IPSE’s tax policy and has a special interest in labour market changes, employment status, IR35 and Making Tax Digital. In 2015 he led IPSE’s campaign against proposals to restrict travel and subsistence tax relief for incorporated entities. Andy has been working with EY to develop IPSE’s concept for a new corporate form – the Freelancer Limited Company – which would deliver clarity of legal and tax status for the smallest businesses, while also protecting revenue for the Exchequer.
IPSE is the largest association of independent professionals in Europe, representing over 68,000 freelancers, contractors and consultants from every sector of the economy. It’s a not-for-profit organisation, owned and run by its members.
Rob Woodward, BDO
Rob is an Associate Director in BDO’s Global Employer Services team and a Chartered Tax Adviser. He advises employers on matters such as employment status, HMRC enquiries, termination payment and employee expenses and benefits. Rob’s clients include organisations in the private, public and not for profit sectors.
The upcoming healthcare SIG event is taking place on Tuesday 3rd September at KPMG Twenty in London.
Start: 18:00
Colin O’Toole & Jane Hurst, KPMG – ‘The need for turnaround skills in STPs/ICS’
Sean Sullivan – ‘Opportunities & Risks in Private Health Settings’
Rob Stafford & Stefan Mieczkowski – ‘The Current State of the Mental Health Sector & its Pressing Challenges’
Colin O’Toole, Head of Healthcare Restructuring, KPMG
Colin has spent the last 12 years working with a range of public and private sector clients in the UK and internationally who were seeking to deliver financial recovery and transformational change.
He has delivered financial turnaround at a number of NHS trusts, two of which have subsequently been removed from special measures.
He has also supported mental health trusts to improve their financial sustainability and has recently been working with a Midlands healthcare system as they develop towards becoming an ICS.
He wrote the KPMG methodology for Grip and Control and co-authored an article on the need for ‘longer term sustainability planning in the NHS’.
Jane Hurst, Partner – Healthcare & Life Sciences, KPMG
Jane has 19 years of experience within KPMG’s market leading turnaround practice.
Her focus for the past 8 years has been on healthcare – providers, commissioners and more recently systems.
She supports those organisations or systems implement actions to reduce the financial run rate.
She has also take board level roles as a secondment to increase her understanding of what it means to be within the organisation and not advising it.
Sean Sullivan
IFT Member Sean Sullivan operated in the energy, water and health sectors often where there is significant infrastructure in the community.
Apart from working within many NHS trusts, Sean’s most recognised work includes the turnaround and sale of the Care Principles Group to Four Seasons Healthcare and as Executive Chair rescuing the Castlebeck Group, following the BBC expose at its Winterbourne View site.
Within the last 12 months, Sean has had turnaround assignments as Interim CEO of Age UK and TD at United Lincolnshire Hospitals. He has just been engaged to turnaround lending UK regulator facing unexpected distress as of June 2019.
Rob Stafford, SSG Health
Rob co-founded SSG. He is a big-4 qualified chartered accountant, with a background in private sector operational improvement.
Rob specialises in facilitating clinically-led high impact change, with a particular focus on best practice application. He has led on many large scale transformation programmes that have secured clinical and financial sustainability.
Stefan Mieczkowski, SSG Health
Stefan has an excellent track record of transformation, operational and financial turnaround, particularly in mental health, community and pre-hospital care settings. The SSG Mental Health Sector lead, Stefan is a recognised expert in mental health care models and research contributor.
Stefan comes from a commercial background having achieved his MBA at Cranfield and worked in the pharma industry. Stefan also coaches senior leaders in Lean application, business development and people management.