Mr. Linaker specializes in advising businesses and stakeholders through periods of underperformance and stress. He works to understand drivers and then design and implement solutions through independent business reviews, short-term cash-flow planning and management, debt restructuring, contingency planning, and insolvency. He has supported clients across a broad range of industries, including construction, automotive, fast-moving consumer goods, aviation, manufacturing, and financial services.

Mr. Linaker’s notable experience includes advising a secured private lender prior to and during a borrower’s voluntary administration; assisting a global retail business in negotiating key contracts to stabilize its declining financial performance; and working with a large, financially distressed chemicals manufacturing business to execute a sale, offering alternative outcome considerations and contingency planning in the event the sale did not proceed.

Mr. Linaker has also held key roles in many insolvency appointments, including the voluntary administrations of the Probuild Group and Clough Group. For both of these businesses, with $1+ billion turnover and diverse stakeholder interests, he played key roles in planning and implementing the administration strategy to achieve outstanding outcomes.

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Linaker was a Director in the Turnaround and Restructuring team at Deloitte.

Mr. Linaker earned a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Sheffield, including a period spent studying at the University of Copenhagen. He holds an Associate Chartered Accountant qualification as a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and is a member of the Australian Restructuring Insolvency and Turnaround Association and of the Turnaround Management Association.