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IFT Education SIG Webinar: Higher Education with Eversheds

The COVID-19 pandemic crisis has changed the way many universities are operating, with a number experiencing worsening finances. A potential insolvency regime for higher education could change the sector even more.

Now we have seen the re-opening of universities across the country, Andrew Jordan and Mark Taylor of Eversheds will be giving their perspectives of the current dynamics, risks and opportunities in Higher Education.

Andrew is a Partner in the Eversheds Finance Group and leads the Finance Team in the Midlands, specialising in all aspects of turnaround and restructuring. Mark is a Partner at Eversheds, advising further and higher education institutions on commercial issues, mergers, corporate transactions and constitutional reviews.

If you would like to register for this event please email Riyah Davies at rdavies@the-ift.com. PLEASE DO NOT USE THE REGISGRATION LINK BELOW. 

Large and Complex Special Interest Group: Alternative Credit Approaches at the End of 2020

COVID-19 has introduced further complexity and uncertainty to a changing lending community. The IFT Large and Complex Special Interest Group invites you to an evening meeting to discuss alternative credit approaches at the end of 2020.

David Morris of FTI will chair the discussion and will be joined by Jat Bains of Macfarlanes and Nick Smith of AIMA.

Large & Complex SIG

The IFT will be hosting the “Large and Complex” Special Interest Group’s 3rd meeting where Sullivan & Cromwell’s leading experts will discuss their recent experience in global restructurings. They will be divulging the sponsor strategies observed and discuss how to tackle any “guerrilla tactics” you may encounter in today’s restructuring landscape, including Sequana and Directors’ Duties in this context and implications for IFT’s members. The seminar will be followed by networking drinks reception.  The speakers will be Chris Howard and Chris Beatty from Sullivan and Cromwell’s London restructuring practice.

Event timings

Registration:

Seminar

Networking

Close

18:00

18:30

19:30

21:00

Education SIG

We are pleased to announce our next FE SIG Meeting, which is taking place on Tuesday 1st October at Barclays, 5 North Colonnade, Canary Wharf.

 

Timings

17:00 Registration

17:30 Richard Robinson – The outlook for the HE Sector and the impact of the Auger review

18:00 Q&A Session 

18:30 – 19:30 Networking & Refreshments

IR35 Breakfast Meeting

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.

IFT Healthcare SIG

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’

 

Speakers:

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.

Large & Complex SIG

The IFT’s Large & Complex Situations Group (SIG) is pleased to invite you to a panel discussion on the impact of stakeholder activism on restructurings. This panel will explore the increasing role of activist shareholders, minority equity, pension schemes and government stakeholders on restructurings.

 

The SIG is being jointly co-ordinated by Senthil Alagar (Grant Thornton) and David Morris (FTI).

The panel discussion on the impact of stakeholder activism on recent restructurings will cover the:

 

•            role of activist shareholders

•            close involvement of government stakeholders and influence on restructuring options

•            impact of pension scheme trustees, TPR and the PPF

•            implications for CROs, Boards and steering committees

 

Event timings

Registration                        17:30

Panel discussion                18:00

Networking                        19:00

Close                                    21:00

 

This event will be taking place on Monday, 15 July 2019 and will be hosted by DLA in their offices at 160 Aldersgate Street, London EC1A 4HT.