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Andrew McTear – Qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1985 and as a licensed Insolvency Practitioner in 1988, specialising in business rescue and insolvency since then.  He spent 20 years working for a big four accountancy firm in East Anglia, where he was latterly a Corporate Recovery Partner before co-founding McTear Williams & Wood.  Andrew specialises in all aspects of corporate insolvency and leads McTear Williams & Wood's business angels initiative working from all five offices.
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Chris Williams – A Chartered Accountant and a licensed Insolvency Practitioner. Chris has specialised in insolvency and recovery work throughout his career, apart from four years at the coal face running his own business – so he's been there and done that. Chris specialises in all aspects of corporate and personal insolvency but particularly enjoys getting involved early when there are more options available. Chris is a National Council member of R3, our trade body.
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David Wood – Gained an excellent understanding of the commercial opportunities and problems his business clients face during his 20 years in the manufacturing sector. In 1990 David started advising on insolvency and turnaround and joined Chris and Andrew to form the existing partnership in 2000. Based in Ipswich, David specialises in guiding business managers in financial distress and negotiating with creditors to avoid formal insolvency where possible.
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Austin Alleyne – Qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1975 and as a Licensed Insolvency Practitioner in 1986. Austin has specialised in Corporate Recovery since 1981, latterly as a mid tier firm Partner. Based in Chelmsford, Austin specialises in corporate insolvency work.

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Roger Barnbrook – Worked as an accountant in industry with owner managed companies and international firms. He was made redundant in 1985 when his employer went into Administrative Receivership.  He assisted the London based receivers and was then offered a job with them. In 1990 he transferred to a local insolvency firm in Ipswich and then moved with them to Cambridge until he transferred to BDO Stoy Hayward in Newmarket in 1998. Roger joined McTear Williams & Wood in July 2003. Based in Cambridge, Roger has been involved in several large high profile voluntary arrangements.
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David Hovell – Joined the firm in 2003 and specialises in banking issues and turnaround work. David was a corporate banker with Barclays Bank plc for many years and since 1996 headed up its business support team in the region. His group of managers operating right across East Anglia focus on the successful turnaround of businesses experiencing difficulties.
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Chris McKay – Qualified as a chartered accountant in 1994 and then specialised in forensic accounting. Chris moved into insolvency and corporate recovery in 1996. He spent four years out of the profession as a finance director for a nationwide property services company, before returning in 2003 and so he has bags of practical experience. Chris draws on his varied skill set to both advise directors and maximise returns to creditors.
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Adrian Sage - Started his working life in the health service before joining the insolvency profession in 1980 with a small local practice in Ipswich.  After moving to a mid-tier firm for a further 14 years, he joined a top four firm and worked in Cambridge for four years.  Adrian joined MWW in 2008 and is based primarily in the Ipswich office and brings his extensive experience in all areas of corporate insolvency.
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Chris Poulton - Gained an MBA from London Business School and built two successful businesses from start-up, before opening his own early stage venture capital firm which works with entrepreneurs to assess investment opportunities and create new technology businesses.  Based in Cambridge, Chris is working on developing a range of advisory services to technology companies in the region and expanding our Turnaround Business Angel Network.
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Iain Reid - Iain has over 20 years experience in the commercial property market in East Anglia and is a Director of Norwich based Citygate Developments. Citygate have undertaken many local developments specialising in turnaround situations. Prior to this Iain was head of the Norwich commercial property office of a large national property agent where he specialised in development and investment advice for local and national clients. Joining us as our in-house property specialist, Iain will be able to use his wealth of experience to advise local companies and shareholders on their property assets in business rescue and insolvency situations.

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Donald Stuart - joined us in January 2010 as an Associate in our expanding banking specialist team.  Donald has over 39 years front line banking experience dealing with SME and corporate businesses, the last 13 of which he was Area Director in East Anglia with Bank of Scotland.  He has enjoyed working with clients in both the good and more testing times and looks to use his experiences for the benefit of professional advisors and clients.
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Donald Stuart - joined us in January 2010 as an Associate in our expanding banking specialist team.  Donald has over 39 years front line banking experience dealing with SME and corporate businesses, the last 13 of which he was Area Director in East Anglia with Bank of Scotland.  He has enjoyed working with clients in both the good and more testing times and looks to use his experiences for the benefit of professional advisors and clients.
Steve Causer - recently joined the practice to develop both our Colchester and Chelmsford offices. He entered the  insolvency profession 12 years ago working for a small London based firm then moving to a national mid tier firm. Using the extensive knowledge gained from this background and from his original career in industry he is able to specialise in providing corporate turnaround and insolvency advice to directors and businesses.
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Tony Harrison - until joining us in November 2004 Tony worked latterly as the financial controller in a foundry which was placed into administration and then traded for eight weeks until it was successfully sold as a going concern to new owners.  Tony enjoyed working with the team and decided to “jump the fence” into the world of insolvency.  Since then Tony has run trading administrations of a garden centre, a games company and numerous printing/manufacturing and general businesses.  He has also played a key role in the firm's largest administration turned CVA which has recently been sold to new owners achieveing a successful end to the CVA.  He has led on numerous pre-packed administrations sales involving negotiating with prospective purchasers and company stakeholders.  He is also regularly involved in the more commercial aspects of all types of cases.
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Jo Watts ACA BSc DchA Jo Watts - trained to become a chartered accountant with a nationwide firm of accountants and qualified in 2002. After qualification she joined a local firm of accountants, became a manager and worked in all areas of audit, accountancy and tax. In 2009 she joined McTear Williams & Wood on a 2 year secondment and having enjoyed working in an insolvency and business rescue firm became a full time member of staff in 2011. Jo is able to draw on her accountancy experience to assist all types of businesses to prepare and interpret financial information, cashflow budgets and forecasts and assess viability of businesses in financial difficulty. She currently specialises in company administrations.
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