Melissa Reardon Associate Director - Restructuring Services

Melissa has over 15 years of experience in corporate restructuring. In 2016, Melissa was a founding member of our Members’ Voluntary Liquidation Centre and has since specialised solely in solvent liquidations (Members’ Voluntary Liquidations), demergers and corporate simplification projects.

She has extensive expertise and experience in dealing with both group simplifications but also owner-managed solvent exits.

Experience 

Melissa’s portfolio includes listed companies, groups and family businesses with long-term retained clients over 10 years.

Her specialist expertise includes:

• An individual solvent liquidation – having come to the end of its life, a company is no longer required and is wound down in a risk-averse and tax-efficient way;
• Corporate simplification projects – large groups of companies that have expanded over time and require a rationalisation of dormant subsidiaries;
• Section 110 restructuring assignments/ demerger – A tax-efficient process to protect shareholder value;
• Entrepreneurial exits – tax efficient shareholder exits.

Melissa has dealt with many corporate simplification projects and has ongoing corporate simplification work with listed companies in the following industries:

• Building & Construction
• Investment and Financial Services
• Security
• Parking
• Agriculture and Horticulture

Work Highlights 

• Engaged to assist with an internal restructure and corporate simplification project removing circa 170 dormant group entities. These entities no longer served a purpose, leading to the Group incurring unnecessary costs dealing with statutory governance, including the production of annual accounts. The number of entities within the Group was reduced from 235 to 65.