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Craig King is an Associate Director in Teneo’s Financial Advisory team in London with over 10 years’ experience, predominantly within financial services restructuring.

Craig supports and advises a wide range of stakeholders, including firms, creditors and regulators globally and has supported on some of largest restructuring assignments in the sector. Craig also works across the spectrum of distress, from restructurings to solvent exits and insolvency.

In 2022, Craig spent a successful year at the FCA in its Resolution and Insolvency department, supporting on minimising harms in failure of Firms in distress and post-failure.

Select Project Experience:

• Consumer credit
  • Regulator advisor – Scheme of Arrangement of a consumer credit firm.
  • Regulator advisor – Solvency review of a car leasing business and investment scheme.
  • Payments and E-Money
  • Lender advisor – FCA-regulated electronic money institution.
  • Firm advisor – Solvency review of an electronic money institution.
  • Firm advisor – Accelerated M&A of an electronic money institution.
• Wealth
  • Insolvency – Special Administration of IBP Markets Limited, a prime brokerage firm.
• Banking
  • Regulator advisor – Contingency planning and the solvent wind down of a UK deposit taker.
  • Firm / Regulator advisor – No creditor worse off valuations of banks in the UK and Cyprus.
  • Firm / Regulator advisor – Creditor hierarchy analysis in the Skilled Persons Review of the ring-fence transfer scheme of a UK systemic deposit taker.
  • Firm advisor – Solvent wind down of a Swiss trade finance bank.
• Insurance
  • Lender advisor – Contingency planning in relation to a UK MGA and Insurance Broker.
  • Firm advisor – Contingency planning for a Guernsey regulated private medical insurer.
  • Regulator advisor – Supported on the Competent Persons Review of a Bermuda regulated insurance group.
• Structured finance
  • Firm advisor – Solvency review of securitisation vehicles subject to credit defaults and “secret” commission arrangements.