Chris Hillier

Executive summary

Chris is a Director in the Business Restructuring team with BDO in Sydney.

Chris’ clients include banks, credit funds and corporates, with his experience including an international secondment to Hong Kong, where he managed a shareholder dispute involving a US $2.5 billion global private equity fund.

Chris is experienced in both informal and formal restructuring engagements. He prides himself on pragmatism, integrity, stakeholder management and delivery of success. Chris regularly leads various engagement types including independent business reviews, creditor/debtor stakeholder negotiations, alternate capital options, voluntary administrations, liquidations and receiverships.

Expertise

• Informal workouts including debtor/creditor engagements
• Options analysis of distressed or underperforming businesses
• Investigating accountant’s reports for secured lenders
• Alternate capital options and accelerated mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
• Safe harbour advice
• Formal insolvency appointments including receiverships, voluntary administrations and liquidations.

Experience

• Receivership of a vitamins and supplements business which involved ongoing trade, sale of business and reporting to the senior lending syndicate
• Advising an ASX-listed client on strategies to acquire an underperforming competitor
• Liquidation of a $200 million Ponzi scheme, which involved representative creditor proceedings
• Accelerated M&A advisory for an Australian franchising business to an ASX-listed purchaser
• Secondment to Hong Kong to manage a large shareholder dispute.

Qualifications and affiliations

• Member, CPA Australia
• Member, Australian Restructuring Insolvency & Turnaround Association
• Member, Turnaround Management Association
• Member, INSOL International