About Holdserve Limited
Holdserve's core purpose is to help companies' boards and management deal with issues or challenges:
leading internal teams and directing external professional firms
Making the Pieces Fit Together
www.holdserve.co.uk
Holdserve, Martin Purvis, turnaround, business recovery, director mentoring, Stock Exchange, strategic review, implementation, takeovers mergers acquisitions and disposals
- integrating businesses and managing change - in growing companies and in businesses in distress, or due to economic or market change
Turnaround and Business Recovery
a renewable fuels start-up (AIM Listed, plant construction behind schedule, facing insolvency) in its negotiations with its lender, recapitalisation and contractual obligations to see the project to completion (over £130m raised and commercial production achieved)
Director & Interim Legal Advisor in an Internet marketing group (AIM listed, loss making) and its strategy decisions, refinancing and disposals, and litigation
Restructuring and Legal Advisor to UK's largest coal producer (after a devastating fire threatened viability) to help avoid compulsory liquidation and achieve and implement a solution for survival of the remaining operations
and he has also consulted as Interim Company Secretary of a FTSE250 insurance group on its internal policies, processes and reporting procedures (following rapid growth and acquisitions).
Chairman of a Puerto Rican utility company (closure preparation and disposal)
a number of executive and turnaround panels operated by professional services firms and banks including Pricewaterhouse Coopers and KPMG (turnaround) and Deloitte and Ernst & Young (key executives)
He has connections with a large number of professional firms and contacts in private equity and capital providers, banks, other lending institutions and the restructuring fraternity.
Martin began his career at a firm of accountants. After earning his Fellowship as a Chartered Secretary early at BOC, he moved to IPC to learn the commercial imperative, initially in a legal and strategic financial planning role then as marketing manager.
For nearly ten years as Group Secretary and Head of Legal at the FTSE 250 Brake Bros plc, and a member of the Group Executive Board, Martin contributed to setting and monitoring business strategy, and was responsible for all legal and corporate business matters in particular acquisitions and their integration (17 in the UK and 12 in France) until 2003; after six-fold turnover growth (to £1.5bn), he led legal and regulatory matters in Brake's strategic review and offer for sale and the negotiations with prospective purchasers culminating in the successful takeover by private equity.
Holdserve, Martin Purvis, turnaround, company secretary, non executive director, strategic review, takeovers mergers acquisitions and disposals, business integration, transition, managing change, exit strategy, prepare companies for sale, Public Offering, listed plc, prospectus, governance, internal processes and reporting procedures
developing, monitoring and advising on commercial strategies and legal / business / corporate issues
