The Cut

In our third episode for season 2, Simon Campbell, Managing partner at Quantuma Advisory gives us insights into the UK insolvency Market

Simon is a restructuring specialist with over 25 years experience in technology, property, professional services, and business services, who works with directors, lenders, and other professionals to provide a considered opinion on the best path towards corporate recovery.

Over his career he's worked at Kroll, Grant Thornton LLP, Booker Phillips and Begbies Traynor Group.

In this comprehensive conversation Simon Cathro and Simon Campbell touch on:

• Simon Campbell's history
• The differences between Australian and UK insolvency practices
• How Australia's unique government safety net, (Fair Entitlements Guarantee) FEG helps businesses, creditors and the government
• A few case studies of what happening in both countries
• The history of the UK's insolvency practices and how we've ended up where we are
• A future predictions for insolvency
• And much more

Links

• Simon Campbell Linkedin
• Quantuma
• FEG Legislation
• UK's proposed single insolvency regulator

In our second episode for season 2, Nick Pilavidis, CEO-AICM, provides his insights into the Australian Credit Industry.

Nick has been with the AICM for 9 years, starting in debt collection and property management overseas soon after landing a role at Ricoh Australia for 14 years.

This is a wide ranging conversation about insolvency through the lens of a credit manager touching on;

• Predictions of credit and insolvency over the next 6-12 months through these economic times

• How to find an appropriate way to deal with consumer debt from a commercial and health and well being aspect

• The bankruptcy threshold changes

• Results from a recent survey of AICM members

• Why having clear communications with small businesses is key to resolving credit and debt

• What Nick does in his personal life when he's not at AICM

• And much more

Links

• Nick Pilavidis Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-pilavidis-micm-cce

• Andrew Blundell Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-blundell-2a54664/

• AICM - https://www.aicm.com.au/

• RICOH - https://www.ricoh.com.au/

• Young credit professional of the year - https://www.aicm.com.au/awards-accreditation/young-credit-professional-of-the-year/

• Bankruptcy threshold changes - https://www.afsa.gov.au/resource-hub/indexed-amounts

In our first episode for season 2, Martin Lakos, one of Macquarie Bank's market commentators, provides his insights into the economy and what we can expect for the year ahead.

Agribusiness is defined as the industry, enterprises, and field of study of value chains in agriculture and the bio-economy.

In this final episode of The Cut for season one, Simon sits down with Commonwealth Bank's General Manager of Specialised Agribusiness Solutions to learn about Adrian's path to a career in Agribusiness and discuss CBA's corporate agriculture coverage model.

On this episode of The Cut, Simon Cathro will be joined as co-host by Bob Jacobs from Auxilium Partners. Luke Furler, the head of Quantuma's Asia-Pacific region, speaks with Simon and Bob.

Quantuma is an independent advisory firm serving the needs of mid-market and corporate companies. In the episode, Simon and Bob will explore Luke's observations regarding insolvency in the Asian-Pacific market.

Domenic Lo Surdo, Managing Director at Stamford Capital, joins us in this episode of The Cut. Stamford Capital is Australia's leading independent arranger and provider of commercial property finance. In the episode, Domenic offers commentary and explores the world of construction finance.

Welcome back to another episode of The Cut.

In this episode, we are joined by Gary Busby and Bronwyn Dumont from the Australian Taxation Office to provide Insights into the Collections Team. In the market's insolvency and restructuring situations, the collections team is essential.

Gary and Bronwyn head up the lodge and pay management team and in this episode, we learn more about Brownyn and Gary and hear their views on the market and where they anticipate it going.

In this episode of 'The Cut', we have our Principal Andrew Blundell taking over from Simon to interview SC Farid Assaf of Banco Chambers. Farid has an extensive background in corporate insolvency and in the episode, we'll cover how Farid came from being an in-house lawyer at ASIC to an SC, the statutory demand process, the top three cases Farid has worked on, along with the market downturn within insolvency litigation and the legal areas that Farid sees as emerging on the back of the pandemic.

In the fourth episode of 'The Cut', our host Simon Cathro is joined by the chief investment office of FEG recovery funds for the attorney general department Stephen Humphries. In the episode, we'll dive into Stephen's working life and how his career journey brought him to work in FEG recovery funding.

Simon Cathro is joined by Chip Hoebeke, a US Insolvency Practitioner and Fellow of INSOL for our third episode of "The Cut". In this episode, Chip discusses the current economic circumstances in the United States of America. Chip also gives us an insight into the insolvency laws that exist in the US and what he expects the US economy will be in the next 6 to 12 months.