Workshops in 2012
25/01/12
Running a Professional Services Business in Distress
Chair: Simon Prideaux (The Royal Bank of Scotland plc)
Speaker: Dermot Power (BDO LLP)
This workshop will consider:
• Highlighting internal and external factors currently impacting the financial viability of professional services firms
• Analysing the key components of a professional firm’s balance sheet (especially the recording and valuation of work in progress)
• Considering optimal financial structures (including the role of external equity funding) and the future for Limited Liability Partnerships
• Discussing the role(s) of lender(s)
• Anticipating and managing financial distress (including retention of key practitioners and clients)
• Optimising tax treatment
Outcome:
• To improve participants’ understanding of the risks currently faced by profesional services firms and the factors which can lead to financial distress
• As a result, improving the quality of advice/representation participants can give to parties facing or affected by such issues (including the management of their own businesses)
Location: to be held at Addleshaw Goddard LLP, Milton Gate, 60 Chiswell Street London EC1Y 4AG at 5.45 p.m. for 6.00 p.m.
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