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About the Event

2023 promises to be a tougher ride for most businesses, investors and consumers globally. Some of the riding trends which we are seeing relate to the crypto winter and liquidity issues faced by venture capitals. However, there is always opportunity in volatility. The Kroll Restructuring team will share war stories as well as practical steps in early intervention in tackling stressed and/or distressed situations.

Attendees will hear from practitioners real life cases which have undergone turnarounds, the common issues faced and practical solutions which can be adopted in managing such situations.

Thank you to Kroll for hosting this event. Post-presentation, the event will continue with refreshments and networking in their office.

Speakers

Jason Kardachi

Managing Director of Kroll

James Alexio

Director of Kroll

Robert Child

Partner at Ashurst LLP

Jason Kardachi is a managing director in the Restructuring practice, based in Singapore. Jason leads the firm’s restructuring and insolvency work in Singapore and Southeast Asia.

He leverages more than 27 years of experience in corporate advisory and restructuring in Asia Pacific, the last 19 of which have been in Hong Kong and Singapore. He has led and managed complex debt restructurings and turnarounds, liquidations and receiverships and provided practical and commercial solutions to key stakeholders.

Jason was a managing partner of Teak Capital Partners, an advisory and investment firm focused on special situation and distressed investments across Asia Pacific. He has also worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Business Recovery Services and later as Head of Special Situations Asia at HSBC.

Jason was recently awarded the TMA International Chapter Impact Award 2019, and he is the first practitioner outside of the U.S. to have received an Individual award since the launch of the TMA Awards in 1993.

Jason holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Adelaide, and he is a Chartered Accountant. He is the founding member of the TMA Southeast Asia (SEA) chapter and is the first president of the regional TMA chapter.

James Alexio is a director in the Global Restructuring Advisory practice based in Singapore.

James leverages over 18 years of experience working in both banking and professional services. He specializes in corporate recovery and restructuring across Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia. He focuses on complex insolvencies and assists stakeholders to manage contentious recoveries and non-performing loan exposures.

Prior to joining Kroll, James was a director in the Stressed Asset Group of Standard Chartered Bank, based in Singapore, where he was responsible for managing both performing and impaired accounts booked in Australia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. His experience included managing aggregated exposures as large as USD 200 million each, developing and executing both retention (turnaround/upgrade) and recovery-led strategies.

Prior to that, James was employed as an associate director in the corporate recovery and restructuring team of a Big Four accounting firm and an Australian bank. His experience included acting as the engagement lead of a voluntary administration of an SGX-listed global energy company with substantial coal, oil and gas assets in Australia and the U.S., with creditors (comprising of unsecured convertible noteholders) holding debt claims exceeding USD 400 million. He was also an engagement lead on behalf of a security trustee to a listed financial services company that held over AUD 250 million of funds under management secured by a portfolio of investments (both by way of direct equity investments and debt facilities) in Australian real property. Additionally, James was the engagement lead of a solvency review, which subsequently resulted in the court-ordered receivership of an unlisted public financial services entity, which had over AUD 200 million of funds under management secured by a diverse portfolio of non-conforming first registered mortgages over Australian real property.

James holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting and Banking/Finance) from the University of New South Wales. He also holds a Graduate Diploma from the Financial Securities Institute of Australia and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.

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