Andrew Fielding

Executive summary

Andrew is a Partner in BDO's Business Restructuring team in Brisbane. He also leads the Brisbane Debt Advisory team, which comprises former bankers who help banks reach resolutions and restructure debt.

Andrew has provided strategic advice and guidance to royal commissioners, state government ministers, and boards of ASX-listed companies.

With a breadth of experience managing and selling businesses, he has successfully set distressed businesses on the right track, and provided media advice around controversial administrations.

Andrew has over 35 years’ experience as a restructuring specialist, handling large and complex matters and managing stakeholders' interests in organisations and industries undergoing rapid change.

Expertise

• Formal assignments for secured lenders
• Critical analysis of budgets and cashflows
• Project management
• Three-way modelling
• Restructuring strategy
• Negotiations with financiers and stakeholders
• Contract negotiation
• Viability assessments
• Assessment of financial governance and operational standards

Experience

• Scheme Administrator to two large personal injury class action settlement administrations, responsible for distributing $305 million to over 17,000 claimants
• Appointed adviser to an Australian Government Royal Commission to assess the profitability of a major care sector across Australia. This included leading a team critically assessing 1,000 organisations’ data
• Appointed adviser to a State Government to assess the viability of over 1,000 Not-for-Profit organisations that receive government funding
• Appointed adviser to a State Government to assess certain allegations, governance, and the ultimate use of grant funds in the arts sector
• On behalf of shareholders, managed the structured closure of a chain of 30 retail outdoor equipment stores and ultimate sale of the IP
• On behalf of shareholders, managed the restructuring and sale of four aged care facilities.

Qualifications and affiliations

• Bachelor of Commerce
• Chartered Accountant and Member, CA ANZ
• Registered and Official Liquidator
• Associate Member, Australian Restructuring Insolvency and Turnaround Association (ARITA)
• Member, Turnaround Management Association (TMA)