Professional Bio:

Lizanne is an Associate Director in Financial Advisory having joined Teneo as part of its acquisition of KPMG in the British Virgin Islands (“BVI”)’s Restructuring business in 2022. Lizanne is a Chartered Accountant with over 10 years’ experience in financial advisory, specialising in insolvency and restructuring.

Prior to joining Teneo, Lizanne was a Manager in KPMG BVI’s Restructuring team from late 2019, having moved to the British Virgin Islands in 2017. Lizanne’s career started off in Audit with KPMG and she has extensive experience in accounting, auditing and financial advisory, providing an excellent foundation and deep understanding of businesses during their lifecycles but also once placed into liquidation.

Lizanne’s current role entails the management of a large portfolio of solvent and insolvent liquidations, restructuring, and financial advisory engagements along with the management of the various engagement teams located across the International Financial Centers. Lizanne has played an integral role in a number of high profile multi-jurisdictional engagements that have involved recognition issues, litigation, asset tracing and other complex matters.

Project Experience:

•       Project Manager and Engagement lead of the Court appointed liquidation of Three Arrows Capital, a BVI based crypto investment fund focused on the crypto/digital asset space with unsecured claims of c.$3bn. The appointment includes asset tracing and investigations, litigation proceedings in a variety of jurisdictions including Singapore, Cayman, and the US, with further connections to HK, UAE and Seychelles.

•       Day-to-day running of a Conflict Liquidator appointment over a large number of disputed assets, including a major transportation and logistics group located in Russia, litigation in various jurisdictions, including Cyprus, London, BVI, Cayman and Russia.

•       Case management on various Court appointed and Qualifying Members Resolution appointed liquidations of BVI registered and related entities associated with China, Russia, Cyprus, the UK, the US and other jurisdictions subject to multi-jurisdictional engagements, shareholder/stakeholder disputes, litigation, fraud, asset tracing and other complex matters.

•       Case and strategy management on various Receivership appointments over BVI assets and related entities to either effect enforcement (by taking control of and selling assets for value) or protect assets in various jurisdictions, pending the resolution of disputes.??

•       Investigations and asset tracing in the BVI, US, Cyprus, Russia, Middle East, UK, Europe and Asia.

•       Lizanne has managed various Members Voluntary Liquidations in the BVI ranging from stand-alone entities to BVI companies within complex group structures and dealing with distributions of assets. This also includes ensuring compliance with the recent amendments made to the BVI Business Companies Act and related record keeping and filing requirements for companies in liquidation.

•       Lizanne has managed a portfolio of clients assisting BVI licensed entities understand regulatory requirements and applicable statutes.  

•       Preparation of BVI tax reviews relating to restructuring transactions.

•       BVI economic substance reviews and advisory service following the enactment of the Economic Substance (Companies and Limited Partnerships) Act 2018.

•       Management of a number of buy-side tax due diligence reviews over target BVI entities.

 Lizanne is a member and former committee member of RISA (BVI) Limited as well as a member of the BVI chapter of IWIRC