Jane Hartley joins A&M Manchester office as senior director

Alvarez & Marsal has welcomed a brand new senior workforce member to its Manchester workplace. Jane Hartley joins as a senior director, and can symbolize A&M’s first on-the-ground debt advisory presence within the North-West, aiming to help regional companies throughout the UK.

Hartley commented, “Becoming a member of A&M has given me the chance to take a client-first method to debt recommendation, guaranteeing that purchasers, no matter their state of affairs, have entry to the help they should navigate the more difficult market circumstances. Within the final decade, the debt advisory market has advanced quickly, turning into more and more broad and complicated. On the similar time, during the last 18 months, credit score urge for food has additionally advanced, that means that many companies are required to look exterior of extra conventional channels to safe the funding they want. With A&M’s distinctive, entrepreneurial and built-in service providing, we’re completely positioned to assist our purchasers obtain their targets.”

Previous to becoming a member of A&M, Hartley was a director in EY’s capital debt advisory workforce for almost 4 years. In that point, she led the agency’s work within the north and Midlands, advising company and personal fairness purchasers on a broad vary of financing wants, from development finance and acquisition funding to leverage buyouts and recapitalisations. She additionally beforehand spent virtually 10 years at Yorkshire Financial institution, offering bespoke debt funding options to SMEs and mid-market corporates within the north-west.

She can be based mostly in Manchester, representing A&M’s first direct debt advisory presence within the area, aiming to help regional companies throughout the UK. This comes after the agency launched its company finance service providing earlier this yr within the north-west. Because the Manchester workplace was opened in 2018, A&M’s native workforce has grown to 60 individuals, masking six service strains.

Tim Metzgen, A&M’s European head of debt advisory, mentioned, “In a troublesome macroeconomic setting, notably amid greater rates of interest, extra companies are searching for debt recommendation to place themselves on this new context, whether or not that’s via refinancing, executing a transaction or supporting the following section of development. Because the market alternative widens, we’re investing in our rising debt advisory workforce given the market alternative for unbiased recommendation. Jane Hartley brings a wealth of expertise in advising purchasers within the north-west and throughout the UK.”

The brand new rent comes alongside Jane Chadwick, additionally a senior director, who joined in March 2023. Chadwick had beforehand spent greater than 12 years working within the debt markets at Rothschild, HSBC and latterly KPMG, the place she was chargeable for main debt advisory work with publicly listed firms and enormous corporates throughout the regional panorama.

Chadwick mentioned, “During the last six months, the urge for food and wish for unbiased debt recommendation out there has change into more and more evident. A&M’s vary of service strains and our important presence within the regional UK market is a key differentiator. With the addition of recent colleagues in debt advisory within the area, it’ll place us to deal with the vary of conditions and necessities our listed and personal purchasers would possibly want whether or not for development capital or the place enterprise plans are underneath extra stress.”