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Business Restructuring & Recovery

Difficult situations don’t need drama, they need a plan.

When a business is under real pressure, the last thing you need is an advisor who manufactures urgency or disappears when things get hard. You need someone who has been in these situations before, stays calm, and knows exactly what to do next.
Apex is known in the market for crisis support and turnaround work. We get involved early, keep options open for as long as possible, and focus on protecting what can be protected – whether that’s the business itself, the capital behind it, or both.

What to Expect Working With Us

We work across the full spectrum, from businesses under financial pressure that are fundamentally viable, through to situations where the priority is maximising what comes out the other side. Here’s how we operate:

  • Early involvement – the sooner we’re in, the more options you have
  • Calm, steady counsel when the pressure is highest
  • A clear-eyed view of where things stand – no sugar-coating
  • Practical next steps, not reports that describe the problem you already know about
  • Senior advisors throughout – this work is too important for anyone else

Where We Can Help

Turnaround & Crisis Management

Hands-on support for businesses in distress – financial, operational, and stakeholder management. We build the turnaround plan, stay to implement it, and focus on restoring stability and confidence as quickly as possible.

Restructuring Advisory

Advisory-led restructuring where we drive both the plan and the execution. We work through cash crises, debt restructures, and creditor workouts – keeping you in control of the process for as long as that remains a viable option.

Business Insolvency

When a formal insolvency process is the right path, we handle it with the same rigour and care we bring to everything else. Voluntary Administrations, Receiverships, and Liquidations – managed professionally, with a focus on maximising outcomes for all parties.

Safe Harbour

For viable businesses navigating serious financial pressure we work to preserve capital, maintain optionality, and create the conditions for recovery. The goal is always to give the business the best possible chance of coming out the other side intact.

Interim NED Roles

Experienced Non-Executive Director expertise for businesses navigating turnarounds, recapitalisations, or periods of significant change. We bring clarity of purpose and consistently high-quality decision-making when it’s needed most.

We’ve been here before. We know the way through.

If your business is under pressure – or you can see pressure building – the right time to talk is now, not later. Early involvement makes a material difference to what’s possible.

GET IN TOUCH

Meet our specialist for
Business Restructuring & Recovery

Business Recovery

Adam Johnston

Adam has over ten years’ experience in the insolvency industry.  He is a Registered Liquidator and Bankruptcy Trustee and has primarily been involved in formal corporate and personal insolvency engagements including voluntary administrations, receiverships, the winding up of solvent and insolvent corporate entities and bankruptcy administrations.  Adam is also experienced in providing general advice to stakeholders where a situation may not result in a formal insolvency appointment and how best they might respond to financial pressure or instances where capital is at risk.

Before joining Apex Advisory Australia, Adam held the role of Principal in the Turnaround & Restructuring team with a big four accounting firm.  Prior to that, Adam spent almost a decade working at Paul Cook & Associates where he progressed to being a Principal, overseeing insolvency engagements and managing critical stakeholder relationships.

Adam is a graduate of Massey University, New Zealand with a Bachelor of Business in Accounting and Finance.  He’s also a member of Australian Restructuring Insolvency and Turnaround Association and CPA Australia.