Alan Tilley

Chairman, BM&T

Alan Tilley is a founding Partner of BM&T with significant expertise in operational and financial turnaround, pre and post acquisition M&A and cross border restructuring having worked on over 50 cases. He is a frequent speaker on cross border European restructuring.

He was Insolvency & Rescue UK Turnaround Manager of the Year 2010, winner of TMA Global International Turnaround of the Year award 2011 and TMA Europe large Turnaround of the Year 2015. He is the author of the UK Chartered Accountants best practice guideline on Turnarounds and of Globe Law’s “Turnaround Management; Unlocking and Preserving Value in Distressed Businesses”. BM&T are founders of European Restructuring Solutions, an association of independent turnaround boutiques in UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain, BM&T has associate partnerships in Bucharest and Athens.

Prior to becoming a turnaround professional he worked for Arthur Andersen in UK and France and subsequently spent 20 years including CEO level of large international manufacturing companies; Grove Cranes, Lansing Bagnall forklift trucks, and Simon Engineering’s global access and fire fighting platforms division. In 1994 he performed a MBI of a UK trailer manufacturer turning it around and disposing it to commence working as European leader of pioneering US turnaround company Glass & Associates. When Glass sold to Huron in 2007 he become MD of Huron Europe before leaving to establish BM&T in 2009 with former Glass colleagues as an independent European turnaround boutique. He has worked extensively in manufacturing turnaround and pre and post M&A restructuring in automotive, aviation supply chain, construction, chemicals, telecoms, plastic and packaging and service industries

He has wide reaching experience across most European jurisdictions.

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