Organisations should examine their corporate structure regularly to ensure it is efficient following acquisitions; in preparation for divestments and in readiness for shifts in regulation or strategy.

Deborah Lee

EY-Parthenon Partner, Turnaround and Restructuring Strategy, Ernst & Young LLP

Experienced restructuring professional. Specialises in designing and implementing optimum group structures. A mother who role models flexible working. Advocate for equality and opportunities for all.

Having joined EY UK in 2003, Deborah has built a successful, wide-ranging restructuring career, working across multiple sectors; leading UK and Global Legal Entity Rationalisation projects; and completing various client secondments.

Deborah specialises in assisting clients in assessing, designing, and implementing optimum group structures. The key benefits include enhancing wider business strategy, increasing tax efficiency, reducing risk, managing cost, improving operational efficiency and transparency and enabling business transformation.

How Deborah is building a better working world

“An active Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) market means groups buy groups. When they do so, there is always a dissonance between their operating structure and their legal entity structure. Deborah has spent her career helping clients address and resolve these issues. This in turn creates efficiency, improves governance and risk management, delivers value and frees up trapped capital and resources.

Clear governance structures, transparency and lower business risk profiles help both internal and external stakeholders in their engagement and decision making with the business, protecting individual and corporate value.”

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