Meet Our Speakers: IPA Roadshow | Wales 2026
Our Host
Louise Brittain, Vice President, IPA; , Head of Restructuring and Insolvency, Azets.
Louise Brittain has been a licensed Insolvency Practitioner since 2001 specialising in Contentious and litigious Insolvency including International Asset Tracing, Provisional Liquidation, Liquidations, Administrations, Court Appointed Receiverships, Interim Receiverships and High profile Bankruptcy. She is the lead partner for all POCA work. She has been a partner at Azets since 2013. She is now Joint Head of Restructuring and Insolvency nationally.
Louise is a Vice President of the Insolvency Practitioners Association. In 2023 she was awarded Insolvency Practitioner of the Year (Large Firm) and in 2024 was awarded the Sebbin Award for her Outstanding contribution to the Insolvency Profession
IPA Goals and Priorities for 2026
Marcial Boo, Chief Executive Officer, IPA
Marcial Boo has been Chief Executive of the IPA since 2024. He was
previously the CEO of three other regulators and worked as a senior
civil servant in government. He also chairs the professional body for
regulators, the Institute of Regulation.
Economic and financial system risk update
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 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.
Insolvency service session TBC
Becky Cox, Senior Policy Advisor, The Insolvency Service
Becky started her insolvency career in The Insolvency Service in 2007, working as an examiner for the Official Receiver. This temporary role gave her a great insight into the world of insolvency, and she went on to work for a small IP firm based in the South West of England for over 12 years, taking on a mix of personal and corporate cases and qualifying as an insolvency practitioner.
Before completing the circle and moving back to The Insolvency Service as an Investigator, Becky also spent time working in the free advice sector, managing debt projects, and qualifying as a DRO Intermediary. She has recently moved to the IP Regulation Section of The Insolvency Service where she is further developing the experience that she has gained so far.
Neil Sutton, Deputy Head of Insolvency Practitioner Regulation, The 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.
Getting The Basics Brilliant: Regulation, Resilience and Smarter Ways of Working in 2026
David Holland, Chief Inspector, IPA
David 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.
Troublesome or Troubled? Why Vulnerability Matters in Corporate Insolvencies.
Michelle Butler MIPA FABRP, Partner, The Compliance Alliance.
Michelle is a partner of The Compliance Alliance, which for over 10 years has provided document packs, compliance reviews, technical support and webinars to insolvency practitioners. Michelle is also a member of R3’s General Technical Committee and was on its working group to develop the proposal for a statutory fee for CVLs.
Michelle has spent the last 35 years in the insolvency profession, the first 15 in insolvency practices and then 7 in the IPA, ending in 2012 as their Head of Regulatory Standards and Monitoring. She then became an independent consultant before becoming a founding member of The Compliance Alliance in 2015.
Outside of work, Michelle’s love of the natural world has led her to swim with manta rays, chase tornadoes, fly over an erupting volcano and work on environmental conservation projects across three continents.
Strengthening Partnerships to Combat Phoenixism and Insolvency Abuse
Charles Everitt, Governance and Technical Lead, FIS Economic Crime Strategy Unit, HMRC
Charles joined HMRC in 2019 having spent over a decade building his insolvency experience in private practice. Currently working in Fraud Investigations Service’s Economic Crime team, which specialises in maximising the recoveries of the proceeds of crime and protecting against the threat of money laundering and terrorist finance. Charles and his team offer high quality specialist technical and strategic support to operational colleagues, building capability and driving innovation in all aspects of civil recovery and insolvency.
Enforcement Against Tax Avoidance Schemes
Charlotte May, Associate Director, Manolete
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 co-Chair for IWIRC South West & Wales and a past Chair for R3 South West & Wales.
Important Insolvency Cases of 2025: Practical Tips and Takeaways
William Ryder, Barrister, Enterprise Chambers
Will joined Chambers in October 2025 following the successful completion of his pupillage.
He is developing a busy commercial/chancery practice and has particular experience in corporate and personal insolvency, commercial disputes and property disputes.
Will studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Christ Church College at the University of Oxford. He then worked for several years in investment management, before completing the Graduate Diploma in Law at City, University of London, where he won GDL Mooting competition for his cohort. Will went on to pass the BVS (with specialism in Corporate Law and Practice) with Distinction.
David Owen, Director – Commercial Litigation, JCP Solicitors
David became a Director in our Commercial Litigation team in 2021 and undertakes a range of work for a variety of commercial and private clients.
David’s main areas of work relate, generally, to the recovery of debts; he is responsible for the firm’s Commercial Debt Recovery practice, which is aimed at assisting commercial clients in recovering outstanding liabilities from slow or non-payers, in addition to the pursuit of secured and unsecured business liabilities for banking and building society clients.
David also undertakes insolvency-related litigation for office holders and other interested parties e.g. advising regarding unpaid directors’ loans, beneficial interest claims and all other potential office holder claims pursuant to the provisions of the Insolvency Act. David is prepared to act on a conditional fee basis where appropriate.
In addition to the above, David also undertakes claimant professional negligence litigation – an area for which the firm’s Commercial Litigation team has an enviable reputation.
David is well-liked by his clients for his relaxed, approachable style and enjoys developing new and current client relationships.
Outside of work, David is a keen cricketer who regularly plays for the Swansea & District Law Society Cricket team and 2 other local teams in the summer months. In the winter, David fills his free time with a variety of sporting activities and, when pressed, some DIY.
David joined the firm in 2010 and qualified as a Solicitor in 2014.
Companies House Session
Mark Buckley, Senior Implementation Lead, Companies House
Mark has worked for Companies House for over 20 years and has held senior roles within Policy, Operations and within the Enforcement and Intelligence teams. I have worked extensively with Enforcement and Intelligence partners throughout the UK. I am currently the Senior Implementation Lead responsible for developing the Authorised Corporate Service Provider registration and maintenance service under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill.
Michelle Lewis, Principal Implementation Advisor, Companies House
Michelle joined Companies House in May 2022. Michelle is currently Principal Implementation Advisor in the Implementation Unit which plays a key role in the transformation plans and legislative reforms at Companies House. Prior to joining the Implementation Unit Michelle was Senior Policy Advisor with a focus on identity verification and Authorised Corporate Service Providers (ACSPs). Michelle has also worked as Policy Lead on the Register of Overseas Entities and the new Director Disqualification Sanction introduced in the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023.