Profile

Andrew Menzies (Partner)

Andrew works in our Financial Advisory Services practice. He has expertise across all disciplines, with particular emphasis on recovery plans for clearing banks. Andrew specialises in the automotive supply chain and plays a key role in our pensions team, providing advisory services to pension scheme trustees, corporates and the Pensions Regulator.

Experience

Andrew joined Grant Thornton in 1997. Previously he spent four years in the management team of a major accountancy firm and two years as a non-executive director in a rapidly expanding hotel and leisure group. With 27 years experience in recovery and reorganisation, Andrew has worked on numerous assignments in the mid corporate market, ranging from £10 to £200m turnover. Andrew has been based in the Midlands since 1987 but has more recently been dividing his time between the Birmingham and London offices.

Andrew has particular expertise in manufacturing and engineering businesses, specialising in the last seven years in the automotive supply chain across the UK, Europe and the US.

Andrew's pensions work includes the provision of financial advice to trustees of defined benefits schemes to assist an assessment of the financial strength of the employer and to negotiate improved security for the scheme. This has involved advising on "clearance statements" and assessing the ability of the principal employer to meet proposed contributions.

Andrew's expertise covers:

• Automotive engineering
• Pensions Advisory
• Motor Retail
• Hotel & Leisure
• Professional Services Qualifications
• Manufacturing

Qualifications

• FIPA
• FABRP (Fellow of the Association of Business)