Matthew is Manager in the Restructuring Advisory team and has over seven years of experience across Corporate Restructuring & Insolvency and Credit Stress Testing.
As a Licensed Insolvency Practitioner in the Dubai International Financial Centre, Matthew is a trusted advisor and strives to deliver the best results for all stakeholders taking interest in his engagements. Matthew brings a wealth of local and international experience as he has worked on corporate insolvency and restructuring mandates across the Middle East, Europe and the USA.
Matthew’s career began in the Glasgow office of Begbies Traynor Group, where he spent over four years specialising in corporate insolvency. He then joined Virgin Money UK (‘the Bank’) as a Credit Stress Testing Specialist, where he and his team evaluated the Bank’s resilience against adverse conditions to identify vulnerabilities and prepare for economic shocks.
Seeking a new challenge, Matthew joined Grant Thornton UAE in May 2023 has delivered on a variety of projects such as independent business reviews, financial restructuring plans, corporate liquidations, feasibility studies and corporate simplifications plans, to name a few.
- BSc in Mathematics, Statistics, and Accounting, University of Strathclyde 2018
- Chartered Accountant, The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland 2021
- Licensed Insolvency Practitioner, Dubai International Financial Centre 2025
