KSA CompanyRescue
We provide online and telephone advice services to distressed sole traders, partnerships, companies, their directors and their advisors. There are many dozens of such sites proclaiming to help you, but unlike many of those people we are (in our day jobs) turnaround specialists and company doctors.
As part of the KSA group, CompanyRescue has helped many thousands of soletraders, directors and their employees through this website since 2000 on both business and personal levels. We are now into our eighth 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 - 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 13-14 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.
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This website was launched in 2000 and was re launched with this new logo and design in 2007. Since then we have added over 100 pages of content and are adding guides, case studies and information every week. So, now we have improved it but welcome any suggestions from you, the reader.
Contact Keith on 0800 9700 539 or 07974 086779 or or by email at keiths@companyrescue.co.uk Keith will do everything in his power to help your business. We have been there and know what you are going through.
Are you a frustrated yet ambitious Insolvency Practitioner? - We have vacancies at KSA CompanyRescue!
Are you stuck in the rut in your present role? Is there no prospect of really building your career, perhaps because your partners block development opportunities? Want to help us build the best rescue company in the UK?
Want to lead the development of a new, national insolvency practice based in London and the North East?
Want to know more see this page - Recruiting IP's
We are looking for ambitious, self starting insolvency practitioner(s) to join KSA CompanyRescue, you will be fully licensed and an experienced appointment taker. If interested email keiths@companyrescue.co.uk
Please apply in complete confidence with your CV and a covering letter describing why you want to join KSA.
Iain is also a director of KSA. Iain has a degree in Economics from Stirling . He knows a lot about money, business and economics of course! This is an old picture he is slightly older and "fuller" now!
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.
Call Iain on 01289 309431 or 0771 77860704
Garry is KSA’s regional director for the South of England. Garry is also a member and director of the UK Turnaround Management Association. With over 15 years of business recovery experience and huge wealth of knowledge on improving financial reporting in companies he can help restructure your business. Garry has worked with MBO and MBI teams through good and bad times and also successfully turned around over 100 companies.
Garry is MD of Insight Associates and The Outsourced Finance Department, both of which provide high quality financial reporting for turnaround and fast growth companies. We often recommend their involvement with our clients as this helps the directors focus on running the company while safe in the knowledge that the financial reporting is looked after by TOFD. See www.insightassociates.co.uk for more details.
Call Garry on 07850 592124.
Call us now on 01289 309431 in (North) or 01279 648 035 (South).
You can find out more about KSA by visiting www.ksacompanyrescue.co.uk here you will learn more about our people and our work.
Over recent years we have determined that there is very little support available when things start to go against you. Most accountants, bank managers, Business Link advisors, lawyers and management consultants have insufficient working knowledge of the UK turnaround or insolvency techniques to be able to guide distressed companies.
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 - hence this site.
We have identified that when things get tough the help melts away. We have spent years talking to government bodies, accountants, lawyers, Business Link advisors, venture capitalists, investors and consultants - all say the same thing - we don’t know where to find quality, timely and practical advice when things go wrong.
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. 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 main parts of the site means that you do not feel hustled to buy anything.
For your clarity our commercial gain will come from providing hands on agreed turnaround work through our expert company doctors or by commissions from passing your information (after you instruct us) to commercial funding organisations who then provide a service to you.
We welcome content from like-minded professional and would welcome feedback from users of the site - positive or negative. You can send your views by email to us. We are happy to link to your site (and mutually to ours) if we think it is suitable and appropriate.
If you have tried our service or used our site for free information please spread the word!
If you have a complaint or comment, please call me personally on 0800 9700539 and I will answer your comments. I 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
August 18th 2008