Mr. Manning has worked with clients across a range of industries, including IT, oil and gas, commodities, business services, manufacturing, consumer goods and retail. His notable assignments include serving as interim CFO; providing financial and operational restructuring advisory; preparing and validating business plans; and providing contract reviews, independent business reviews, and short-term cash flow forecasting frameworks.

Recently, Mr. Manning advised the Board of a French-listed engineering group on the operational restructuring of its UK business, creating a revised target operating model with a lean central and divisional overhead structure; took the Board of a Europe-listed transport operator through its financial restructuring, including business plan preparation, short-term cash flow management and stakeholders negotiations; and served as interim CFO at Bollé Brands Group through its carve-out and subsequent operational turnaround, separating financial reporting and treasury from the former owner, setting up a treasury department and developing and implementing financial reporting to new stakeholders.

Mr. Manning also advised the Board of Directors of Seadrill through their 2018 Chapter 11 process; lenders on their exposure to the Southern European steel industry, including market and business reviews of participants and industry restructuring options analysis; and the Van Gansewinkel Group through its debt-for-equity swap via a UK Scheme of Arrangement, including business plan review and ensuing interim management.

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Manning worked with the restructuring teams at KPMG and FTI consulting, working on variety of debtor- and creditor-side restructuring advisory projects. Prior to that, he co-founded a boutique debtor restructuring advisory firm. There he served as Restructuring Advisor at Industrial Chemicals plc and Group Restructuring Manager at iSoft plc (reporting to the CRO). Previously, he qualified as a Chartered Accountant at Ernst and Young, serving in their mid-market audit and M&A advisory teams.

Mr. Manning earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Durham University. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS).