E-mail: gareth.roberts@krecr.co.uk
Mobile: 07979 706 392
Gareth has considerable experience with a wide variety of businesses in many industry sectors in the Thames Valley and down the M4 corridor to Wales and the West, and has particular expertise with sporting clubs and manufacturing businesses. Gareth was previously a partner with HMT Corporate Recovery and RSM Tenon, and prior to that a Senior Manager with Ernst & Young. He has 31 years experience in the Corporate Recovery field after starting his career with the Official Receiver in 1986 and qualified as a Licensed Insolvency Practitioner in 1998. Career highlights include:
- Acting as Administrator to London Welsh Rugby Football Club, managing the business and liaising with the Rugby Football Union. This culminated in the refinancing of the business via a new investor leading the solvent exit from Administration and handing the Club back to the directors.
- Acting as Receiver for Reynard Motorsport Limited, a leading motorsport company in particular in Nascar racing in the USA. Various parts of the business were sold to competitors, leading to a significant and unexpected recovery for certain stakeholders.
- Acting as Administrator of a sub prime lender with a loan book of over £10million realising sufficient value from the book to repay the secured creditors in full and making a significant return to the unsecured creditors
Gareth is married with three children and his leisure interests include golf (social handicap of 18) and watching the Welsh rugby team occasionally win Grand Slams.