Dermot Coakley FCA, FABRP
Dermot is a founding partner of Coakley & Co, having set up the firm with Anne in 1989. Dermot qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1982 and then specialised in business recovery, becoming a licensed insolvency practitioner in 1989, shortly before the firm was formed.
These days he is a consulting partner to the firm, having his main business as co-founder and owner of MBI Coakley Ltd, a specialist business restructuring and insolvency practice based in Guildford, and having formerly been a restructuring partner in a top ten firm. Thankfully, Dermot has not had to advise more than a handful of clients of Coakley & Co facing financial difficulty in the intervening years.
Dermot also deals with solvent liquidations to release value to shareholders in a tax efficient way following business sales, retirements and so forth, and provides ad hoc advice to the firm’s clients on other unusual or challenging situations, such a shareholder disputes and demergers, that crop up from time to time, drawing on his extensive experience of dealing with a wide range of different businesses and individuals.