David Brushe

Executive summary

David is a Director in BDO’s Business Restructuring team in Brisbane. He provides restructuring and commercial advice to individuals and businesses, helping them assess their viability, maximise stakeholder returns, and undertake formal proceedings. David has worked across a range of industries and has experience in many different business structures, including family groups and large corporations.

He has worked in the insolvency industry since 2004, and with BDO since 2008.

Expertise

• Corporate and personal insolvency
• Business restructuring

Experience

• Involvement in various forms of external administration, including:
  • Improving profitability for and overseeing the sale of a large Brisbane hotel
  • Rehabilitation and sale of a former mine site and scrapyard
  • Trading and sale of a gaming machine manufacturer, resulting in ongoing staff employment
  • Restructure, trading, and sale of a tourism business providing tours on K’gari, and in remote Queensland and the Northern Territory.
• Due diligence reviews for private equity firms.

Qualifications and affiliations

• Bachelor of Commerce
• Bachelor of Business (Information Technology)
• Commissioner for Declarations
• Registered Trustee in Bankruptcy
• Member, Australian Restructuring Insolvency & Turnaround Association
• Member, CPA Australia