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Restructuring & Insolvency

What to expect from Sir Philip Green’s appearance before MPs

City AM’s retail and property reporter, Helen Cahill looks forward to tomorrow’s appearance by Sir Philip Green before the Parliamentary committees investigating the collapse of retail chain, BHS.  Our Business Risk Adviser Nick Hood provides his thoughts. Hood said: “My feeling is that the thrust of any strategy being set will be to defend his record of managing BHS up

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Only 10 days to save BHS, restructuring guru warns

Our Business Risk Adviser, Nick Hood stresses the urgency in finding a buyer for the residual parts of collapsed retailer BHS in an interview with Evening Standard reporter, Joanna Bourke. “BHS is dying by the day as stock runs low and customers begin to think about where they will shop instead. Speed is of the essence to get any deal

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The FT looks at the refinancing deal planned by care home giant, HC-One

FT reporter Gill Plimmer examines the background to the announcement by residential care giant, HC-One to reduce its debt via a £200m sale and leaseback deal. Our Business Risk Adviser, Nick Hood comments on the precarious financial state of the UK care home sector: “HC-One’s move to raise funds through a sale and leaseback has unpleasant echoes of the financial

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The Construction Index debates the risks of quoted company ownership in the Construction sector

Phil Bishop debates the pros and cons of the private vs. quoted company ownership model for Britain’s construction sector, with extensive comments from our Business Risk adviser, Nick Hood. “Probably the most cogent reason why the family-owned, private ownership model is safer is because of the sheer difficulty of expressing in accounting terms what construction businesses do,” Hood says ….

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