Meet Our Speakers: IPA Roadshow | Manchester 2025
IPA Manchester Roadshow Host
Yin Lee, IPA President 2025-26; Director, YLA
Yin is a Solicitor, licensed Insolvency Practitioner and Director at YLA. She has over 20 years’ experience focussing on business restructuring and insolvency. She enjoys the variety of the work insolvency brings together with the challenges of finding workable solutions for underperforming businesses.
Through Yin’s position as Vice-President, she hopes to continue mentoring the next generation and opening the doors to increasingly diverse talent.
Yin has a keen interest in football and sits on the Serious Disciplinary Panel and the Appeals Panel at the Football Association (FA).
The Economic Policy Outlook
James Smith, Research Director, Resolution Foundation
James Smith is Research Director at the Resolution Foundation. Prior to this he worked in a range of roles at the Bank of England and in the civil service, leading work on a range of policy issues. His work focuses on wealth, debt and housing as well as leading the Foundation’s work on macroeconomic policy.
Coerced Debt: Economic Justice for Victim-Survivors of Economic Abuse
Genevieve Richardson, Senior Public Policy Advocate, StepChange
Genevieve Richardson is Senior Public Policy Advocate at StepChange, leading on public policy research related to housing and vulnerabilities. She has authored reports on the challenges facing private renters and of those facing victim-survivors of coerced debt. Before joining the charity, she worked in Parliament. She holds an MPhil in International Development from Oxford University.
Navigating the Challenges in Becoming a Successful IP
Dane O’Hara, Director, Leonard Curtis
Dane is an IP and director in Leonard Curtis’s London office, having joined the firm in 2017.
With over 16 years’ experience in the insolvency sector, Dane has a number of sector specialisms including regulated sectors, construction, transportation and logistics, manufacturing and hospitality.
Dane provides advice to a range of clients, principally focused on the ABL and banking sectors.
Dane is currently a member of the IPA’s External Affairs and Member Services Committee.
Current Trends in Insolvency Litigation
Dominic Vincent, Associate Director, Manolete Partners PLC
Dominic is a Regional Associate Director with Manolete Partners PLC. Prior to joining Manolete in 2018 he was an insolvency partner with a national firm of solicitors and subsequently helped establish the legal practice of a national insolvency and restructuring group. Dominic is based in Manchester.
Restructuring Plans: The Creditor Perspective
Simon Banks, Senior Associate, Trowers & Hamlins
Simon is a Senior Associate in Trowers’ Dispute Resolution team in Manchester, focusing on insolvency proceedings and restructuring. He commonly acts for creditors, insolvency practitioners and companies in financial difficulties, advising on contested administrations, liquidations, CVAs and bankruptcies. Simon works closely with insolvency professionals to investigate director misfeasance, trace assets and maximise returns to creditors. Simon also advises boards of directors in order to address solvency concerns at an early stage. Recent work relates to the CVAs of a number of household-name retailers and advising large groups of investors regarding failed property investment schemes.
Pensions: Hot Topics and Pitfalls to Avoid
Darren Toms, Managing Director, Clumber Consultancy
Darren has 30 years’ pensions experience, most of which has been directly assisting UK Insolvency Practitioners (IPs) and Businesses with complex pension scheme matters.
In July 2014, Darren set up Clumber Consultancy Limited and his team have supported IPs with thousands of pension scheme appointments, all of which have varied.
Understanding Money Laundering: Methodologies and Investigations
Jason Burke, Expert Laundering Evidence Cadre, National Crime Agency (NCA)
Jason Burke is a former Detective Sergeant and senior investigating officer at the Economic Crime Team of the Northwest Regional Organised Crime Unit (NWROCU). Jason has a career in policing spanning 30 years predominantly specialising in targeting organised crime groups for fraud and money laundering. He has been involved in multiple and varied successful prosecutions relating to many of the country’s most notorious criminals. Jason is now a part of the Expert Laundering Evidence (ELE) cadre of the National Crime Agency (NCA), assisting in delivering expert evidence in the field when required by the court, he is responsible for the provision of evidence related to Crypto currency and digital assets. Jason is an accredited fraud investigator, counter fraud manager and trained bribery and corruption Detective with the City of London Police, in addition to being one of them most experienced fraud detectives in the UK.
Update on Investigation and Enforcement Strategy and Companies House Reform
Joseph Sullivan, Assistant Director of the Economic Crime Reform Implementation Unit, Insolvency Service
Joe is Assistant Director for Economic Crime Reform Implementation at the Insolvency Service, where he is leading work to define the Agency’s role in tackling fraud and money laundering within a wider new investigation and enforcement strategy. Previously Joe was an Official Receiver for both London and Public Interest Unit offices, dealing with a range of bankruptcy and liquidation matters, including Debenhams PLC and the SK:N group of companies. Joe also spent 10 years working in insolvency practitioner regulation, helping to oversee the work of the RPBs. Joe is JIEB qualified, passing both exams in 2022.
The ABC of a Modern IP: AML, Best Practice, and Confidence in the Profession
David Holland, Chief Inspector, IPA
David is the Senior Monitoring Manager at the IPA. He has oversight and management of the inspection team, ensuring adherence to policies and procedures of the IPA and making sure that the regulatory objectives are met via onsite monitoring visits. David is the IPA’s Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) and heads up the IPA’s responsibility as an Anti-Money Laundering Supervisor.