Restructuring and insolvency practice Business Rescue Expert has launched a new north west operation, led by Kevin Pinkerton, the former national head of restructuring and insolvency at Freeths. Pinkerton joins as managing director after 23 years as a specialist lawyer, during which he also qualified as a licensed insolvency practitioner. He previously led Freeths’ national restructuring and insolvency team across seven offices and began his legal career at George Davies Solicitors in Manchester before spells at Turner Parkinson and Freeths.
Headquartered in Darlington and marking its 20th anniversary, Business Rescue Expert operates nationwide and specialises in voluntary liquidations, company voluntary arrangements, administrations, and other formal insolvency processes. The Manchester office is its first base outside the north east, with plans for rapid growth across the region.
Founder and chief executive Eamonn Wall said he was ‘thrilled to welcome Kevin on board’, describing him as having ‘that rare experience of having created a national insolvency team and being appointed as national head of insolvency’. Wall added that Pinkerton’s appointment ‘adds further in-depth expertise to the practice in every aspect of all statutory processes’, and that the firm sees ‘an opportunity to quickly scale our new regional operation’ in a challenging economic environment.
Pinkerton, a fellow of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals, said: ‘Business Rescue Expert has grown to become a nationally-respected corporate insolvency practice. The prospect of helping it grow in the north west and then nationally felt too good to miss.’ He added that working as an insolvency practitioner ‘provides the most direct route to helping distressed businesses’, and that he was ‘excited to be launching Business Rescue Expert into the north west region’.
