Lisa Rickelton

Lisa Rickelton is a Managing Director at FTI Consulting and is based in London. She is a member of the Corporate Finance & Restructuring segment, with over 19 years of restructuring and insolvency experience.

Lisa has restructuring experience in a variety of sectors, including oil and gas, consumer products, transport, real estate, healthcare and retail.  She specialises in contingency planning, strategic exits and insolvent restructurings.

Lisa's recent assignments include the pre-packaged administration of Debenhams plc; EPM analysis on the Nyrstar restructuring; as well as roles on Thomas Cook, Steinhoff and Carillion; and on ATU, the first Cayman pre-packaged provisional liquidation sale.

Lisa's insolvency appointments have included as Administrator over Iona Energy, an oil and gas exploration and production business; Liquidator of Aviator Airport Services following a implementation of a solvent restructuring solution; trading Administration of a care home business; and Administrator of a technology business with operations in Greece, India and the United States following fraud allegations. 

Previous assignments she has been involved in includes advising lenders to a large European oil refinery; contingency planning on behalf of noteholders of a UK oil exploration company; contingency planning in relation to a leading queue management business; advising the lenders to a care home group on their contingency options; COMI shift administration and financial restructuring of Lighthouse (a Luxembourg entity in the Seat Pagine structure); acting on the enforcement of a number of UK shopping centres; negotiating lease exits on behalf of a hotel owning group; the pre-packaged administration sale of a market leading UK printing company; and contingency planning and pre-packaged administration in relation to Raymarine, a leading manufacturer of marine electronics, which resulted in value for shareholders.  Ms. Rickelton has also worked on the teams advising the Ch11 committees on Toysrus, Lehman Brothers and Nortel Networks.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting in 2008, Lisa worked in Ernst & Young’s Restructuring practice. Before that, she worked in the restructuring team at Arthur Andersen.

Lisa is a licensed insolvency practitioner. She is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a member of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals. She received an M.A. with honours in economics from The University of Edinburgh.