Meet the Re10 Team

Re10 is the most forward-thinking, independent turnaround specialist of its kind in the UK today. The partners of Re10 are an expert team whose industry experience is without question and highly respected, not only in the UK but globally. The Re10 team has a wealth of industry experience across all sectors and as individuals, the partners have worked with organisations of every size on a local, national and international basis.

Andrew Bowers

Specialist areas of expertise:

• Personal Insolvency
• Financial restructuring
• Raising finance
• Developing turnaround strategies

Industry experience:

• Banking and finance
• Leisure and hospitality
• Property and construction
• Retail and technology

Andrew Bowers is based in Leeds and is a Fellow of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals and the Insolvency Practitioners Association and a Certified Fraud Examiner. Andy trained as an accountant then entered the insolvency profession in 1988 whilst working overseas and was one of the first students to pass the JIEB exams in 1990. Andy worked for one of the large firms in London during the 1990’s and was involved with some of the most widely publicised corporate failures of recent times.

Andrew has extensive international corporate recovery experience having worked on major assignments in Spain, Jamaica and Thailand and dealt with creditors and assets located in numerous jurisdictions.

Andrew has been involved in saving many businesses and jobs and has an excellent track record in achieving results when faced with the most difficult of circumstances.

Nimish Patel

Specialist areas of expertise:

• Financial restructuring
• Raising finance
• Corporate viability
• Developing turnaround strategies.

Industry experience:

• Property
• Manufacturing
• Retail.

Nimish Patel is based in London and has over 23 years restructuring and turnaround experience. Nimish is a qualified accountant, and member of the ICAEW, the Turnaround Association, the BACCA and a member of R3. Nimish is also a member of the Ethics Board of the Insolvency Practitioners Association.

Nimish was recruited as a chartered accountant from Grant Thornton in 1992 by Ernst and Young. He joined the team working on Olympia and York’s Canary Wharf project which performed a hugely successful reconstruction of the group, now in the FTSE 100.

Whilst at Ernst and Young, Nimish also played a key role in a number of high-profile cases, including the administration of British and Commonwealth Holdings Plc and a restructuring assignment for the Romanian government’s State Ownership Fund of a steelworks that, at its peak, had more than 20,000 employees.

Bijal Shah

Specialist areas of expertise:

• Corporate restructuring
• Corporate viability investigations
• Developing turnaround strategies

Industry experience:

• Information technology
• Finance.

Bijal Shah is based in London and is a Chartered Accountant and member of the Turnaround Management Association. Bijal trained at BDO Stoy Hayward in London specialising in corporate restructuring.

As well as carrying out corporate viability investigations for banking clients,
Bijal has more recently been involved in the highly successful turnaround of a major software company. He has also acted as an expert witness in a number of court cases.