With over two decades of due diligence and capital markets advisory experience, Ms. Birchall helps clients solve accounting, structuring and financial reporting complexities.

SYDNEY, June 25 2024 –Alvarez & Marsal, a leading global professional services firm, announces the appointment of Erica Birchall as Managing Director and leader of its Global Transaction Advisory Group’s (TAG) Australian Capital Markets & Accounting Advisory (CMAA) practice. This strategic addition expands A&M TAG Australia’s service capabilities, further enhancing support for its clients. Ms. Birchall’s appointment follows the recent growth of Global TAG’s CMAA practice with the addition of Managing Directors Patricia Alonso de la Fuente and Annika Melin Jakobsson. 

Ms. Birchall brings over two decades of experience in due diligence and advising clients on complex technical accounting and financial reporting matters across the deal life cycle. Her expertise spans IPO readiness, restructuring, acquisition and joint venture structuring, divestitures, refinancings, purchase accounting and post-deal technical support. Additionally, she helps clients navigate new standards implementations, including sustainability and sale and purchase (SPA) negotiations. Ms. Birchall also assists with disputes and accounting expert witness matters. She has worked with corporates, private equity and government entities on cross-border transactions spanning multiple sectors, including infrastructure and transport, large-scale government privatizations, renewables and the energy transition.

Paul Aversano, Managing Director and Global Practice Leader of Global TAG, who also oversees A&M’s Corporate Transactions Group in the U.S., emphasized the strategic importance of this appointment. “Erica’s addition, along with Patricia and Annika’s, underscores our commitment to positioning strategic talent in key international markets, and the value of our integrated platform for executing deals. Private equity and multinational corporate clients demand a full-service, independent capital markets and accounting offering, as well as seamless support in increasingly complex environments. Erica’s expertise furthers our ability to build a best-in-class global CMAA team, leveraging A&M’s freedom from audit conflicts and active senior leader engagement competitive advantages.”
 
David Willis, Managing Director and A&M TAG Australia Practice Leader, added, “Erica’s in-depth transaction expertise and experience untangling complex accounting issues bolsters our ability to help investors create value pre- and post-transaction. As the energy transition sparks growing interest from private capital and an uptick of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity, her deep understanding of the energy sector will be beneficial to investors. She will help our clients keep pace with standards and requirements that don’t always keep up with the rate of technological change.”

Ms. Birchall noted, “My background aligns with A&M’s operational heritage and results-driven mindset, and I look forward to supporting Global TAG’s commitment to maximizing clients’ deal value. As major transformations and significant growth expectations head towards the renewables and energy transition sector, I am excited to help A&M’s clients capitalize on current and future opportunities.”

Prior to joining A&M, Ms. Birchall served with KPMG and PwC for over 20 years in London, Beijing, and Sydney, primarily working on large-scale acquisitions, divestments and privatizations. With a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from University College London, she is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a member of the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand.

About Alvarez & Marsal

Companies, investors and government entities around the world turn to Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) for leadership, action and results. Privately held since its founding in 1983, A&M is a leading global professional services firm that provides advisory, business performance improvement and turnaround management services. When conventional approaches are not enough to create transformation and drive change, clients seek our deep expertise and ability to deliver practical solutions to their unique problems.

With over 9,000 people across six continents, we deliver tangible results for corporates, boards, private equity firms, law firms and government agencies facing complex challenges. Our senior leaders, and their teams, leverage A&M’s restructuring heritage to help companies act decisively, catapult growth and accelerate results. We are experienced operators, world-class consultants, former regulators and industry authorities with a shared commitment to telling clients what is really needed for turning change into a strategic business asset, managing risk and unlocking value at every stage of growth.

About Alvarez & Marsal Global Transaction Advisory Group

A&M’s Global Transaction Advisory Group provides investors and lenders the answers needed to get the deal done. We combine our firm’s deep operational, industry and functional resources with Big Four-quality financial accounting and tax expertise to assess key deal drivers and focus on the root cause of any critical deal issues. As the largest transaction advisory practice outside the Big Four, our global integrated teams help private equity, sovereign wealth funds, family offices and hedge funds as well as corporate acquirers unlock value across the investment lifecycle.

The firm’s Global Transaction Advisory Group includes over 1,000+ professionals in 40 offices worldwide. Our global team has extensive industry knowledge across multiple sectors and is free from audit-based conflicts of interests.

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