Ian Richardson

Ian joined Grant Thornton in 2005 as Director operating within the Leeds office of Grant Thornton UK. He is in the process of relocating to the Isle of Man to lead the Grant Thornton Isle of Man Insolvency offering. Prior to this he held roles in both Business Recovery and in industry in New Zealand & Australia. He is a qualified Insolvency Practitioner with over 30 years’ experience in business recovery and insolvency.

Ian has a principal focus on fraud insolvency and asset recovery for a wide variety of creditors including HMRC, financial institutions and commercial organisations. Other experience includes going & gone concern business and asset sales, outsourced bank portfolio realisation, and financial viability investigation & turnaround.

Experience

• Currently appointed by the Isle of Man High Court as: 
  
  • Joint Liquidator of Montpelier (Trust and Corporate) Services Limited;
  • Joint Liquidator Emmetview Properties Overseas Limited (in Liquidation); 
  • Kirkhouse Limited (in Liquidation); and 
  • Joint Receiver of King Gaming Limited and 8 associated group companies;
• Currently acting, and has previously acted, as voluntary liquidator of various Isle of Man companies;
  Lead appointee, giving evidence for claimants in a breach of directors’ duties action reported at LRH Services Ltd v Trew & Ors [2018] EWHC 600 (Ch)
• Giving evidence for claimants in MTIC (Missing Trader Intra Community) VAT fraud proceedings reported at:
  
  • Bilta (UK) Ltd & Ors v Natwest Markets Plc & Anor [2020] EWHC 546 (Ch), an
  • Bilta (UK) Limited (in liquidation) & Ors v SVS Securities plc [2022] EWHC 723 (Ch)
• Lead appointee, giving evidence for claimants in a breach of directors’ duties action reported at Angelmist Properties Limited (in liquidation) v Leonard and others [2015] EWHC 1858 (Ch)
• Managed administration and subsequent liquidation of Bulong nickel mine project, Western Australia.