About Us - we are Company Doctors and Turnaround Experts.
We save viable businesses, we help you close those that are not!
KSA Group Ltd t/a CompanyRescue - see more about us at our Media Room
We provide online and telephone advice services to distressed sole traders, partnerships, companies, their directors and their advisors. There are many dozens of such sites proclaiming to help you, but unlike many of those people we are (in our day jobs) turnaround specialists and company doctors.
As part of the KSA Group, CompanyRescue has helped many thousands of soletraders, directors and their employees through this website since 2000 on both business and personal levels. We are now into our ninth year of providing free, high quality advice on line.
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Keith Steven - Managing Director KSA Group Ltd
Keith is the author of the content on this site. He is managing director of Company Rescue Ltd and KSA Group Ltd - a specialist firm of turnaround practitioners. Over 5,000 people have contacted KSA since Keith launched this unique website in 2000 and over 500  companies have now been directly assisted by the author over the last 15 years with assignments ranging from large multi national projects to small manufacturing companies.
Keith started his career as a retailer and experienced the savage recession of the 1990’s first hand. This was before the banks had any idea about dealing with SME's failure. Close struggling businesses first; ask questions later was the response then. Of course this was driven by insolvency practitioners who wanted big fees.
So he learned a lot in a short time and thought "how can we help struggling businesses"?
He joined a specialist turnaround firm in London in 1994 and has helped set up two venture capital companies since, specialising in the distressed / turnaround sector. What a great learning curve that was.
Keith is a former director of the UK Turnaround Management Association and an associate of the Turnaround Finance Group.
There isn't much he hasn't seen, he is an entrepreneur and a risk taker, hence this business and this website. Talk to Keith directly if you want.
Contact Keith on 0800 9700 539 or 07974 086779 or or by email at keiths@ksagroup.co.uk
Keith will do everything in his power to help your business. He has been there and knows what you are going through.
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Eric Walls - MIPA FABRP Director of Turnaround and Insolvency
Eric is a licensed insolvency practitioner regulated and licensed by the Insolvency Practitioners Association. His ethos is always "give the right advice, choose the right options, rescue first if possible." He has many years experience in accounting and insolvency having trained at Touche Ross (Deloitte) and has been involved in turnaround and insolvency since the early 90's.
Keith and Eric first met in a pub in Darlington in 2000 (!) and have worked closely ever since, with Eric as a partner in Marlor Walls and now a director of KSA Group.
Eric has acted as nominee and supervisor of well over 100 CVA's in that time and knows the pressures and difficulties of that approach and making a rescue work, but also the success of many of the CVA clients we have mutually worked with.
Eric gained his licence in 2002 and has been involved in many innovative turnarounds as well as hundreds of liquidations, administrations and bankruptcies across the whole of the UK.
Eric will give any potential new client free advice, a free meeting and most of all good guidance to the right options.
Call Eric now on 0800 9700539 or 07787 278527. Or you can email Eric direct at ericw@ksagroup.co.uk
Iain Campbell - Operations Director KSA Group Ltd
Iain is also a director of KSA. Iain has a degree in Economics from Stirling . He knows a lot about money, business and economics of course! This is an old picture he is slightly older and "fuller" now!
He's been involved in the turnaround sector since 2001 and has huge experience of helping people like you. Iain is an expert in the use of the company voluntary arrangement mechanism, he knows more about this tool than almost anyone else in the UK.
He and his corporate advice team advise clients on their restructure and work with banks, tax creditors, asset lenders and creditors to ensure a consensus approach is achieved on behalf of our clients. Iain is a skilled and tenacious negotiator who can obtain deals, supplies and support from otherwise unhelpful creditors.
Iain has worked with SME’s through CVA’s, liquidations administrations and trading out. He works tirelessly for our clients who are often amazed at the deals he pulls off for them and he always has a supportive approach.
Having advised one of our clients how to deal with a landlord problem, the advice he gave became case law after a decision of the Court of Appeal, called Thomas v Ken Thomas Ltd 2006 EWCA Civ 1504.
This was a complex case concerning rent payment appropriation to a landlord in the period leading up to a CVA and how they should be allocated. Iain has extensive knowledge of legal matters in CVA and you should call him if you have any questions.
Call Iain on 01289 309431 or 0771 77860704 or email him at iainc@companyrescue.co.uk
Andrew Hunter - Financial Analyst KSA Group Ltd
Andrew trained as an accountant in London with Touche Ross, for whom he served two years in the Insolvency Department. He then worked in Corporate Finance for ANZ Banking Group before transferring to Equities analysis in Institutional Stock Broking, working for Hoare Govett and Merrill Lynch.
This role entailed the construction of financial forecast spreadsheets in order to value businesses and their shares. Having left the City in 2002 to move north, he has continued equities analysis on a consultancy basis and worked for a wide range of businesses as a consultant, before joining KSA Group in December 2008 as Financial Analyst.
Call Andrew on 01289 309431 or email Andrew at andrewh@ksagroup.co.uk
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Professor Grant Jones (non-executive director KSA Group Ltd) LLM FCA Solicitor & Licensed Insolvency Practitioner.
Grant joined KSA Group Limited as a non executive director in February 2009 He brings with him a wealth of insolvency and turnaround experience. Grant originally qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young. Having qualified as a Licensed Insolvency Practitioner, Grant established his own practice in the 80s. He was invited to be head of insolvency at a then top-20 accountancy practice, Morrison Stoneham, which became the first accountancy practice to float and it floated under the name of Tenon.
Having already obtained a Masters in insolvency law from London University, post-float Grant further qualified as a New York Attorney and Solicitor, and now practices both in insolvency law with an international law firm and as accountant with a medium-sized accountancy firm.
Grant is a non-executive director of a number of companies, including one company, that went through a CVA debt-equity swap to become a highly successful operation. Grant understands, at the coalface, how the CVA process adds positive creditor and shareholder value.
A technical author, Grant has published a number of books on insolvency matters and is a Special Professor of Law at Nottingham University. Actively involved in professional matters, Grant is a council member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, is the Vice President of the London Society of Chartered Accountants and a member of the Education, Courses and Conferences Committee of R3, the UK insolvency trade body.
Based in London, Grant's role primarily within KSA is to advise on corporate strategy. Call Grant on 07815 873370. Email grantj@ksagroup.co.uk
Philippa Allan - Business Development Manager
Philippa has talked to thousands of worried directors over some 5 years or more of working with KSA.
She is very experienced in the provision of quality guidance and solutions in distressed situations. A graduate in economics and business, she has trained in accountancy and was a KSA case administrator before joining Keith at the "front end" of KSA in 2008.
So she has experience of putting together CVA's, doing administration work and IVA's for sole traders. Philippa can spot problems in accounts, in business plans or on the phone - she will be sympathetic but will focus on looking forward not dwelling on the past problems.
Do you need a CVA solution? Call Philippa. Likewise if a company needs fast liquidation she will arrange the process with our insolvency practitioners, with the minimum of fuss.
Contact Philippa on 0800 9700539, 01289 309431 or 0707833 240746: email philippaa@ksagroup.co.uk
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Marie Moody - Office Manager/ Corporate Advisor
Marie is in charge of the offices across KSA. Her role is to ensure the smooth running of the day to day. Marie was one of our first employees back in 2002 and has grown her knowledge of insolvency and CVA's in particular.
Like Philippa, Marie has talked to thousands of worried directors, partners and sole traders over some 7 years or more of working with KSA and has an ability to listen and ask pertinent questions. Not a skill that many people in insolvency have!
Marie has also helped set up www.debtless.co.uk our online information service for people with personal debt problems.
Marie combines provision of support to her portfolio of clients, with her role of ensuring that all of the functions of the offices are controlled and working well.
Gordon Boden - Associate Director, West Midlands.
Gordon has worked with Keith Steven /KSA for many years. Indeed even before KSA was formed Gordon had been involved in over 20 turnarounds with Keith in the West Midlands area.
Gordon is a very experienced turnaround advisor and accountant based in Sutton Coldfield. He has been involved with many CVA's, liquidations and administrations with Keith and KSA.
Often Gordon will bring on board his team of specialist accountants to provide input into the turnaround and regular monthly financial reporting for the boards of our clients.
This is a very important function that allows turnaround clients to keep close control over their finances and avoid future problems. Gordon can also act as a non executive director or chairman.
With industrial and engineering experience, accounting experience, and many appointments as executive director, turnaround director and non-executive chairman for turnaround clients, Gordon has a rounded view of the business world. There isn't much Gordon hasn't seen over the years and he is a great listener.
He has worked in the West Midlands business community for over 40 years and is a well respected and connected local figure. If your business is based in or around the West Midlands, he will be happy to meet you for a free of charge initial assessment meeting.
If you are based in the West Midlands and want wise guidance, call Gordon on 0121 3780671 or 07974 948804.
Russell Mallen - Associate Manager - West Midlands
Russ is very experienced in the provision of quality accounting information in distressed situations.
Often our clients have a breakdown of accounting and reporting in the stress that insolvency can bring, Russell will oversee a deep review of the systems and reporting, tidy up the balance sheet and profit and loss and set out meaningful information for the directors and their advisors. After this he will help build detailed financial forecasts for any CVA or restructure.
In one example KSA rescued a manufacturing company in the West Midlands and we quickly found that the records were appalling despite the company employing a FCA finance director. After KSA was appointed, he was asked to leave and Russ brought a team of 4 experienced accounting people into the company within 2 days to reconcile and collect the debtor book, reconcile multiple bank accounts, oversee invoicing and liaison with the factoring company and the bank.
Cashflow was rapidly improved and the company recovered sufficiently to propose a CVA. This hands on CAN DO attitude is typical of Russell and his team.
Call Russell on 0121 3780671 or 07989 575933.
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