Alastair guides companies through complex financial restructurings based on his three decades of experience in assisting financially stressed businesses to preserve value through a combination of dialogue with stakeholders, contingency planning, and, ultimately, insolvency processes, many of them with substantial and innovative cross-border elements. Alastair specializes in cross-border advisory and formal insolvency appointments. Alastair has a Bachelor of Engineering in mining and petroleum engineering from Strathclyde University. He is a licensed insolvency practitioner, a Certified Management Consultant, a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and immediate past president of INSOL Europe.