Main Australian turnaround & restructuring consulting corporations McGrathNicol and KordaMentha are stepping up their ambitions in New Zealand.
Having just lately celebrated its twentieth anniversary in Australia, McGrathNicol has now added Andrew Keenan from PwC as a accomplice in Auckland, with Keenan following fellow current recruit Alton Pollard, who joined from KPMG.
Described as regionally owned and operated, the twin additions take McGrathNicol New Zealand’s partnership numbers to 5, additional together with one other former KPMG and PwC director duo Kare Johnstone and John Minn.
Keenan joins McGrathNicol’s partnership ranks after spending the previous decade and a half in PwC’s offers division between New Zealand and the UK, most just lately as a director of sustainability & company finance with accountability for valuations, capital elevating and strategic enterprise critiques based mostly out of Auckland.
“Andrew is a superb addition to our New Zealand workforce,” acknowledged Andrew Grenfell, New Zealand managing accomplice at McGrathNicol. “We’re excited to welcome him at a time when our purchasers are in search of clear recommendation to enhance efficiency, mitigate danger and obtain stability and development in a difficult financial atmosphere. They may profit from the breadth of expertise and experience Andrew brings.”
Keenan’s arrival follows that of Alton Pollard as a accomplice in August, with the latter beforehand serving as a director and head of debt advisory & sustainable finance throughout his 5 years at KPMG. Bookending his earlier native banking profession, Pollard additionally spent greater than a dozen years between Westpac and ANZ, damaged up by a decade at monetary establishments within the UK and Eire.
In the meantime, KordaMentha, one among McGrathNicol’s main rivals in Australia, can be stepping up its ambitions in New Zealand with a brand new and bigger workplace in Auckland, its former native department having rebranded to Calibre Companions in 2020. The agency additionally just lately promoted monetary crime danger administration and compliance specialist Jing Wyllie to government director.
“That is an space of accelerating want and complexity, not solely because of subtle legal exercise, but additionally to proposed legislative adjustments,” the agency beforehand acknowledged. “The transfer to develop KordaMentha’s trans-Tasman monetary crime follow goals to fulfill the rising calls for of purchasers aligned to governments’ evolving anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing regimes.”
Each McGrathNicol and KordaMentha had been named amongst Australia’s prime consulting corporations for 2024 earlier this 12 months.
