Wesley Edwards

Senior Director
30+ years of experience managing formal and informal insolvency procedures
BVI licensed Insolvency Practitioner
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Wesley Edwards is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal and leads the firm’s British Virgin Islands practice. He brings more than 30 years of experience managing formal and informal insolvency procedures, including administrations, company voluntary arrangements, provisional liquidations, solvent and insolvent liquidations, insolvent partnerships, receiverships as well as bankruptcies.

Mr. Edwards has worked closely with local law enforcement agencies when fraud has been alleged against various stakeholders connected to insolvent entities. Furthermore, he has developed considerable technical expertise and extensive knowledge of insolvency law in many jurisdictions. His involvement in international and cross border engagements has enabled him to develop skills in forensic investigations, asset tracing, fraud investigation, litigation and identifying money laundering.

Additionally, Mr. Edwards has primarily focused on clients operating within the financial services sector, working on the wind down of high profile entities, including Fairfield Sentry Limited, Bridge Business Recovery, Yamaichi International (Europe) Limited and Mount Credit Corporation Limited. He has worked with clients across a range of industries, including China, Singapore, the U.K., Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Kenya, the U.S., Canada, Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Channel Islands, Isle of Man and Barbados. 

Prior to A&M, Mr. Edwards spent more than six years with CVR Global (now Begbies Traynor), where he headed up the firm’s BVI office. Before that, Mr. Edwards served as Director and Head of Insolvency for KRyS Global in Bermuda and the BVI, where he acted as an appointment taking Insolvency Practitioner for both solvent and insolvent entities. 

Previously, Mr. Edwards spent more than 23 years with KPMG, where he most recently served as Senior Manager and Head of Insolvency with KPMG (BVI) Limited.

Mr. Edwards is a qualified Practitioner in the U.K. and holds an Insolvency Practitioners license in the BVI issued by the BVI Financial Services Commission (regulator).

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A&M expands its footprint to the British Virgin Islands with the appointment of new Senior Director Wesley Edwards to lead the BVI office. "By having boots on the ground, A&M will be able to support our client's diverse range of needs as they face a looming recession and worsening global corporate distress in the coming months" Read the press release in full.
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