Eddie Williams

Eddie Williams – IFT Accredited Member

As a Partner within PwC’s Deals business, Eddie leads the PwC Restructuring team in the Midlands region focusing on the complex and mid-market sectors. He supports underperforming business and their stakeholders throughout the Midlands and UK, identifying and resolving issues affecting profitability, protecting enterprise value and, where necessary, recovering value for stakeholders.

He has worked in the regional mid market for nearly 25 years with over 10 years’ experience of leading restructuring assignments including time in London and secondments to a major Bank’s restructuring team. He has significant experience in a wide range of restructuring and insolvency assignments of all sizes and complexities advising directors, shareholders, and stakeholders on businesses experiencing differing level of distress.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales and sits on its Restructuring committee. He has been a licensed insolvency practitioner since 2009, is a member of the Institute for Turnaround and is the current Chairman of the Midlands R3 committee.

His appointments have won both the TRI mid market insolvency of the year in 2016 for the solvent Administration of HPI Racing, and TRI large insolvency of the year in 2019 for the sale of Covpress which saved the pension scheme from entering the Pension Protection Fund.

Other recent experience includes:

•             Joint Administrator of Economy Energy £120m t/o energy supply business requiring orderly transfer and collection of over 100,000 customer accounts

•             Working alongside a law firm to advise to listed plc on options including milestone decision planning and insolvency considerations

•             CVA supervisor of Regis, a £40m t/o haircare business operating from over 180 retail salons throughout the UK

•             Joint Administrator of All Leisure Holidays £100m t/o business involving sale of travel business and customer balances and sale of 2 cruise ships 

•             Compulsory Liquidator of Animal Healthcare Trust, a charitable trust which provided leading veterinary, medical and research services to the UK equine industry