Nick Agius

Nick Agius - IFT Accredited Member

I am a Director at Cardano Advisory and have over 15 years of financial advisory experience, advising stakeholders in corporate transactions and restructurings. 

Cardano Advisory is the multi-award winning covenant advisory business of The Cardano Group, the purpose-built investment and risk specialist. Since 2008, Cardano Advisory has helped clients to understand, monitor, and protect sponsor covenant and integrate it alongside other risks. We are highly regarded as a leading specialist employer covenant advisor.

My key focus at Cardano Advisory is in advising schemes and sponsors in stressed and distressed situations to find optimal solutions. This includes:
- Assessments of the impact of reorganisations and restructurings on the pension scheme and its employer covenant, including potential mitigation that may be required to repair any detriment;
- Supporting stakeholders in assessing options to compromise scheme benefits and separate the pension scheme from the sponsor;
- Assisting boards, (potentially taking board level appointments), in navigating the zone of insolvency caused by DB scheme(s);
- Providing expert advice and assistance in restructuring negotiations;
- Undertaking or reviewing insolvency contingency planning;
- Entity priority model and estimated outcome statement analysis;
- Providing expert support around stressed and distressed sales processes;
- Advising stakeholders in the planning and execution phase of a managed exit process; and
- Advising stakeholders post any insolvency event or post restructuring plan implementation.