Meet our Speakers: IPA Roadshow | Wales 2025
Our Host
Adrian Hyde, President, IPA; Partner, Begbies Traynor
Adrian is an Insolvency Practitioner and a Solicitor. Prior to joining CVR (acquired by Begbies Traynor Group in 2021), he was a Partner in two well-known law firms, specialising in insolvency, proceeds of crime and fraud work.
Experienced in working on a wide range of insolvency matters, the majority of Adrian’s assignments involve crime or dishonesty and many involve overseas issues at offshore jurisdictions and business centres.
Adrian has split his time between London and Gibraltar while working on the liquidation of an international law firm. This has provided an opportunity to focus on the expansion of Begbies Traynor’s international business.
UK Economic Outlook – Uncertain Times
Ian Derrick, Deputy Agent for Wales, Bank of England
Ian Derrick joined the Bank of England in 2000 as Deputy Agent at the Agency for Wales, and returned to the role from a year’s secondment to the economic analysis area of the Office of National Statistics in Newport in June 2015. Born and schooled in Llanelli, Ian graduated from Cardiff University in Economics in 1989, joining The Royal Bank of Scotland, working primarily in corporate banking and project finance roles in the City of London in the 1990s.
A Welsh speaker, Ian lives in Cardiff with his wife and daughters. His hobbies include running and most sports.
An Update from the Insolvency Service: What to Watch Out for in 2025
Neil Sutton, Deputy Head of Insolvency Practitioner Regulation Section, Insolvency Service
Neil Sutton is Deputy Head of Insolvency Practitioner Regulation at the Insolvency Service. He has previously served as the Bankruptcy Adjudicator and led the operational delivery of debt relief orders, breathing space, redundancy payments, and the customer service and insight teams at the Insolvency Service.
An Update from the Insolvency Service: Bounce Back Loans: Where are We Now?
Vicky Thomas, Senior Technical Advisor, Insolvency Service
Senior Technical Advisor at the Insolvency Service working in the Chief Technical Officer’s team. Vicky has nearly 20 years’ experience working in the Insolvency Service initially as an examiner and then Deputy Official Receiver in the Official Receiver’s office before moving into the technical team in Investigation and Enforcement Services and then to her current role. Vicky currently has oversight of the agency’s work on Covid support scheme matters ensuring that our work is aligned with wider-government counter-fraud priorities.
Regulatory Outlook 2025
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.
Pension Claims and their Pitfalls
Rachel Bryant, Pensions & IP Services Operations Manager, Evolveis
Rachel Bryant is the Head of the Pensions Claims’ Team at Evolve IS Limited, a UK-based company specialising in submitting ERA and pension claims to the Redundancy Payments Office. She is a qualified accountant and insolvency practitioner with extensive experience in all insolvency procedures since 1998, including a tenure at BDO LLP. She has been specialising in unpaid pension claims since 2015 and works closely with all major pension providers, insolvency practitioners and the RPO.
Recent Case Studies and Procedure
Charlotte May, Associate Director, Manolete Partners PLC
Charlotte is based primarily in the South West and Wales. She is experienced in complex commercial disputes with specialist expertise in property, negligence, and insolvency. Charlotte qualified as a solicitor in 2009. In December 2018, Charlotte joined Manolete from national firm Burges Salmon LLP where she worked on high profile retail and property insolvencies. Charlotte is the current Chair for R3 South West & Wales.
Legal Update
Andrew Meech, Director, JCP Solicitors and Undersheriff of West Glamorgan
Andrew has built a reputation in the business community in both South and West Wales and has experience in providing advice to a range of businesses; boasting a portfolio of clients who operate on a local, national and international level. Andrew is the Under Sheriff of West Glamorgan.
Andrew regularly advises Insolvency Practitioners on various matters regarding personal and corporate insolvency with a particular emphasis on disputes concerning misfeasance, breach of duty, preferences, transactions at an undervalue and transactions designed to defraud creditors. As part of Andrew’s litigation practice, he is fully rehearsed in all methods of Alternative Dispute Resolution.
Claire Thompson, Barrister, Enterprise Chambers, Bristol and South Wales
Claire spent her first three years practicing from Chambers’ London branch but has recently re-located to Chambers’ Bristol branch. Claire continues to regularly appear in London, as well as now having an emphasis on work in Bristol and South Wales.
Since starting practice Claire has developed a broad commercial chancery practice in the above areas with a particular emphasis on any matter which involves a property or insolvency element allowing her to draw on her experience and expertise in these other areas.
She frequently appears in the County Court, the First-tier Tribunal and the High Court, on all manner of property cases (including possession proceedings, easements/restrictive covenants, adverse possession and service charges), insolvency matters (covering all manner of both personal and corporate, directors’ duties and other insolvency processes) and bank recovery proceedings (charges, mortgages, guarantees and indemnities).
Claire has extensive experience representing clients at mediation. She is also a CEDR accredited mediator and accepts instructions to act as mediator in disputes in any of the above practice areas.
Better Quality SARs for Law Enforcement
Michael Jones, Reporter Engagement Senior Officer, UK Financial Intelligence Unit (UKFIU), National Crime Agency (NCA)
Michael joined the NCA in 2019 and qualified as a Financial Intelligence Officer, previously posted to the UKFIU’s International Team. He’s experienced in sanitising and disseminating SAR intelligence for use in investigations overseas and has specialised knowledge of how SARs are exploited by domestic and global law enforcement. Michael is currently a Senior Officer on the UKFIU’s Reporter Engagement Team. The team is responsible for ensuring high quality SARs are submitted into the regime that provide lines of enquiry, victim safeguarding and asset seizure opportunities for law enforcement partners.