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Introduction
Zolfo Cooper LLP is an independent corporate advisory and restructuring firm. The company provides a range of services to clients with three main service lines: Financial Advisory & Restructuring Services, Corporate Advisory Services, and Pensions Advisory Services (see below for details).

Zolfo Cooper LLP clients typically include: directors, lenders, private equity investors and corporate lawyers.

Zolfo Cooper LLP is headquartered in London with offices throughout the United Kingdom and affiliates in North America, the Caribbean, Asia Pacific and Continental Europe.

History
Zolfo Cooper LLP was formed in November 2008 following an MBO of the European Kroll Corporate Advisory and Restructuring Group from Kroll Inc..

Financial Advisory & Restructuring Services

 * Business review
 * Strategic options analysis
 * Financial restructuring
 * Contingency planning
 * Insolvency implementation

Corporate Advisory Services

 * Corporate Finance
 * Business sales, acquisitions and buyouts
 * Debt advisory
 * Fund raising
 * Valuation
 * Forensic and Litigation Support Services
 * Financial investigation
 * Commercial dispute assistance
 * Damage analysis
 * Monitoring and Divestiture Trustee and Independent Observer
 * Working Capital Management

Pensions Advisory Services

 * Employer covenant assessment for trustees and sponsors:
 * Scheme valuations
 * Scheme closures
 * Scheme apportionment and withdrawal arrangements
 * Covenant monitoring
 * Corporate restructuring, mergers, disposals, acquisitions and related regulatory clearance applications
 * Insolvency analysis
 * Regulatory issues
 * Supporting and defending regulatory proceedings (Financial Support Directions and Contribution Notices)
 * Establishing the conditions for regulatory action
 * Negotiation support

Offices
Zolfo Cooper LLP: London, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Glasgow. Affiliations: North America: New York, Los Angeles (Zolfo Cooper LLC). Caribbean: Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands (Zolfo Cooper Cayman and Zolfo Cooper BVI Ltd). Europe: (Eight Advisory, McStay Luby and Thierhoff Müller & Partner). Asia Pacific: (Ferrier Hodgson and KLC Kennic Lui & Co).

Notable appointments: 2009 – Present
Zolfo Cooper LLP provides confidential advisory services to its clients, however, administrations are a matter of public record and notable assignments include: Appointed Administrators for:


 * Clinton Cards (on 9 May 2012) - the UK's largest card retailer (founded in 1968), operating 628 Clinton shops and 139 Birthdays stores and employing more than 8,000 staff.
 * Hawkins Bazaar (on 30 December 2011) – a British toy and novelty gift chain with 65 stores and c380 employers.
 * Jane Norman (on 27 June 2011) – a female clothing brand with 89 UK stores employing c1,600 people which was eventually bought by Edinburgh Woollen Mills.
 * Habitat (on 24 June 2011) – an international furniture store (30 in the UK, 27 in France, 6 in Spain and 5 in Germany) with c900 employees. Home Retail Group, owner of Argos and Homebase bought the Habitat brand and three of the stores pre-Administration.
 * Peverel (on 14 March 2011) – the UK’s largest property management company associated with billionaire Vincent Tchenguiz. It was bought out of Administration by two private equity companies (Chamonix Private Equity and Electra Partners) in a £62m deal.