Team
Market leaders with a proven track record
When you are dealing with people helping you with the most challenging of situations, your first priority must be finding the people you can trust. Our team have delivered solutions over and over again, overcoming challenges and obstacles along the way.
Simon Bonney
Director
Simon has been acting as a trusted adviser for over 25 years and has been taking formal appointments as a licensed insolvency practitioner since 2004.
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His experience spans from straightforward SME appointments in liquidations and administrations to more complex advisory assignments and includes a large number of assignments requiring in-depth investigations and disputes.
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Always ready to have a conversation to see what assistance can be provided Simon enjoys the role of being a trusted adviser to a wide variety of professionals. ​​​​​​​
James Varney
Director
James has been advising companies and individuals for over 13 years, qualifying in 2019.
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He started his career helping individuals in financial difficulty but then went on to develop his corporate insolvency experience in a top ten accountancy firm.
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James is known by his clients for excellent service and delivery of strategies to navigate the most difficult financial situations.
Tom Maker
Director
Tom has over 10 years’ experience offering restructuring and insolvency advice to companies and is qualified to act as an insolvency practitioner, passing the JIEB exam in 2020.
He specialises in formal insolvency procedures, particularly administrations, CVAs and CVLs, but has a wide range of experience in other procedures and general advisory assignments.
Tom enjoys providing solutions to complex problems which his client’s face and is always happy to have a discussion.
Victoria Edwards
Consultant
With a background in law, Victoria has been a banking and finance partner in a prominent London law firm for 14 years and has worked in the legal sector for nearly 25 years.
She brings with her a host of commercial and practical experience in the real estate and finance sector along. She also has an aptitude for business development and joins Arafino as a consultant.