We provide online and telephone advice services to distressed sole traders, partnerships, companies, their directors and their advisors. There are many dozens of such websites proclaiming to help you, but unlike many of those people we are (in our day jobs) turnaround specialists, insolvency practitioners and company doctors.
As part of the KSA Group, CompanyRescue has helped many thousands of soletraders, partnerships, directors and their employees through this website since 2000 on both business and personal levels. We are now into our tenth year of providing free, high quality advice on line.
Keith is the author of the content on this site. He is managing director of Company Rescue Ltd and KSA Group Ltd - a specialist firm of turnaround practitioners. Over 5,000 people have contacted KSA since Keith launched this unique website in 2000 and over 500 companies have now been directly assisted by the author over the last 15 years with assignments ranging from large multi national projects to small manufacturing companies.
Keith started his career as a retailer and experienced the savage recession of the 1990’s first hand. This was before the banks had any idea about dealing with SME's failure. Close struggling businesses first; ask questions later was the response then. Of course this was driven by insolvency practitioners who wanted big fees.
So he learned a lot in a short time and thought "how can we help struggling businesses"?
He joined a specialist turnaround firm in London in 1994 and has helped set up two venture capital companies since, specialising in the distressed / turnaround sector. What a great learning curve that was.
Keith is a former director of the UK Turnaround Management Association and an associate of the Turnaround Finance Group. He lives in Berwick but works much of the time in our London offices.
There isn't much he hasn't seen, he is an entrepreneur and company doctor, hence this business and this website.
Talk to Keith directly if you want on 0800 9700 539 or 07974 086779. O by email at keiths@ksagroup.co.uk
Keith will do everything in his power to help your business.
Eric is a licensed insolvency practitioner regulated and licensed by the Insolvency Practitioners Association. His ethos is always "give the right advice, choose the right options, rescue first if possible." He has many years experience in accounting and insolvency having trained at Touche Ross (Deloitte) and has been involved in turnaround and insolvency since the early 90's.
Keith and Eric first met in a pub in Darlington in 2000 (!) and have worked closely ever since, with Eric as a partner in Marlor Walls and now a director of KSA Group. Eric has acted as nominee and supervisor of well over 100 CVA's in that time and knows the pressures and difficulties of that approach and making a rescue work, but also the success of many of the CVA clients we have mutually worked with.
Eric gained his licence in 2002 and has been involved in many innovative turnarounds as well as hundreds of liquidations, administrations and bankruptcies across the whole of the UK.
Eric will give any potential new client free advice, a free meeting and most of all good guidance to the right options. He lives in Consett and runs our Gateshead offices.
Call Eric now on 0191 4823343, 0800 9700539 or 07787 278527. Or you can email Eric direct at ericw@ksagroup.co.uk
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Iain is operations director of KSA. Iain has a degree in Economics from Stirling . He knows a lot about money, business and economics of course!
He's been involved in the turnaround sector since 2001 and has huge experience of helping people like you. Iain is an expert in the use of the company voluntary arrangement mechanism, he knows more about this tool than almost anyone else in the UK. He and his corporate advice team advise clients on their restructure and work with banks, tax creditors, asset lenders and creditors to ensure a consensus approach is achieved on behalf of our clients. Iain is a skilled and tenacious negotiator who can obtain deals, supplies and support from otherwise unhelpful creditors. Iain has worked with SME’s through CVA’s, liquidations administrations and trading out. He works tirelessly for our clients who are often amazed at the deals he pulls off for them and he always has a supportive approach.
Having advised one of our clients how to deal with a landlord problem, the advice he gave became case law after a decision of the Court of Appeal, called Thomas v Ken Thomas Ltd 2006 EWCA Civ 1504. This was a complex case concerning rent payment appropriation to a landlord in the period leading up to a CVA and how they should be allocated. Iain has extensive knowledge of legal matters in CVA and you should call him if you have any questions.
Iain lives near Durham and oversees the Berwick offices as well as national operations.
Call Iain on 01289 309431 or 07717 860704 or email him at iainc@ksagroup.co.uk
We have a great team of advisors across the UK. With over a dozen trained advisors ready to take your call, we can guarantee you will be surprised how much better you will feel after talking to KSA. In our experience most insolvency practitioners remain tied to closure techniques or those methods where fees are greatest. Whilst many IP’s are moving into the rescue and restructure field they do not communicate with distressed companies easily. There are few (understandable) books about rescuing your business - so we built this site way back in 2000.
We are very keen to help worried directors, give them options and solutions and see their business go forward. Where that is not possible we help with a dignified exit or restart.
Call us or email us, fill out the form on contact us page, whichever way you contact us we are proud of our ability and willingness to help. How do we make money?
Obviously, there is a commercial motive - we are all in business to make profits - but we hope that the lack of overt selling messages on the this website means that you do not feel hustled to buy anything. We are not interested in advertising revenue from other people. Our aim is to answer your questions and worries professionally and innovatively, then we will hopefully be able to work with your business.
For your clarity our commercial gain will come from providing hands on and agreed turnaround work through our expert company doctors or insolvency work through our insolvency practitioners. All fees are quoted in writing in advance. We normally SAVE your business cashflow and thus our fees are affordable.
This comprehensive web resource is entirely free and confidential to use.
If you have tried our service or used our site for free information please spread the word! See our testimonials page here.
If you have a complaint or comment, please call Keith Steven on 0800 9700539 and he will answer your comments. We welcome advice on how to improve the site.
Our advice is free at delivery but to cope with demand we ask that you email us, (or fill out the contact us form or call our Freephone number 0800 9700 539), with a broad outline of the problem and we will call you back at a time and on a number that will keep our conversation discreet. Or if you prefer we can send an email confidentiality agreement before you disclose any of your financial details. To do this please put confidentiality request in your email title box.
Our advice is entirely free until a service or product is offered to your company, this will be in writing and only after a detailed meeting and analysis of the company by one of our directors. We have directors across the UK.
Finally - remember we are here to help. We work all day with distressed businesses, there is very little that you can tell us that will surprise us! Sometimes a dispassionate, disconnected look at your business can greatly assist you to make a decision. So swallow your pride, read this site and then contact us.
Keith Steven Managing Director
May 2010