Helen Newman

Executive summary

Helen is an Advisory Partner with BDO in Brisbane, specialising in business restructuring and insolvency services.

She provides solutions to companies and business owners to manage the challenges of business disruption, debt burden, poor trading performance, or cash flow shortages. Helen helps businesses in financial difficulty mitigate risk and restructure. She works closely with key stakeholders to understand their concerns and implements change to achieve the best result possible. Helen has been involved with a significant number of corporate restructures and divestment strategies in Queensland, nationally, and internationally.

Expertise

• Solvency reviews
• Safe harbour restructuring plans
• Investigating accountant’s reviews
• Corporate streamlining
• Liquidation, receivership, and administration
• Business turnaround and restructuring advice to businesses in financial difficulty
• Property management, asset enhancement, and realisations
• Asset divestment strategies

Experience

• Insolvency appointments across diverse industries, including medical practices, pharmacies, management and letting right businesses, transport, training organisations, real estate and construction, manufacturing, retail, hospitality, and agribusiness
• Negotiation of complex sales in mining, manufacturing, development sites, hospitality, and tourism
• Secondment to a major Australian bank’s asset structuring unit
• Special manager for major bank restructuring projects in Bangkok and Jakarta on behalf of a major global financial institution.

Qualifications and affiliations

• Bachelor of Business Accountancy
• Registered Liquidator, ASIC
• Australian Restructuring Insolvency & Turnaround Association (ARITA) Advanced Certification in Advanced Restructuring & Turnaround
• ARITA Advanced Insolvency Law and Practice I and II
• Fellow, ARITA
• Chartered Accountant and Member, CA ANZ

Professional engagements and activities

• Queensland Division Committee Member, ARITA, March 2021 to current
• Founding Committee Member and Former President, Women in Insolvency and Restructuring Queensland