Andy Pear

Andy Pear is a partner at Moorfields Advisory, a London-based business recovery and advisory firm whose corporate recovery practice was recognised as Corporate Recovery Advisory Firm of the Year in England at the 2024 Corporate INTL Global Awards. The award reflects the firm's standing as a trusted adviser in restructuring, insolvency and commercial finance, and the reputation of its senior team for guiding businesses and their stakeholders through periods of financial difficulty.

Moorfields describes its role as delivering clarity, protecting value and supporting business recovery. Its work spans insolvency and recovery, including administrations, liquidations and receiverships; restructuring, encompassing debt restructuring, contingency planning and strategic reviews; and financial advisory services such as cashflow management, turnaround support and stakeholder management. The firm also advises on real estate and commercial finance, and acts for clients across a wide range of industries including construction, energy, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, retail, technology and transport. This breadth allows it to tailor its approach to the particular pressures facing each business.

Andy Pear is a chartered accountant and licensed insolvency practitioner with more than thirty years of experience in restructuring and advisory work, and is one of the lead partners of the firm. Before the practice's current form he co-founded a restructuring firm that later merged with Moorfields Advisory, and earlier in his career he worked with a number of leading accountancy firms, building extensive experience across restructuring, insolvency and turnaround. He is a member of professional bodies representing insolvency and turnaround practitioners.

His areas of expertise centre on working closely with stakeholders on strategies to avoid business failure, while standing ready to guide a business through a formal insolvency process where that becomes unavoidable. Over his career he has built a strong reputation for advising secured lenders and for managing complex client relationships during periods of financial stress. Specialising in turnaround and recovery, he has supported a wide range of businesses through operational and financial challenges, delivering pragmatic strategies designed to protect lender positions and maximise outcomes for the parties involved.

This combination of technical insolvency expertise and a practical, stakeholder-focused approach is central to the corporate recovery work for which the firm was recognised. In restructuring and insolvency matters, clients and lenders depend on advisers who can move quickly, assess options clearly and act decisively, whether the goal is to rescue a viable business, preserve value for creditors or manage an orderly wind-down. Andy Pear's long experience and senior role place him at the heart of this work at Moorfields.

The Corporate INTL Global Awards recognise leading advisers and firms across jurisdictions and practice areas, drawing on research into the market to identify those demonstrating particular expertise in their field. The 2024 award to Moorfields Advisory as Corporate Recovery Advisory Firm of the Year in England highlights the strength of its restructuring and insolvency practice, to which Andy Pear contributes as a lead partner advising businesses and lenders through financial distress.