Emma Thompson

Emma Thompson is a Director with Alvarez & Marsal's Restructuring practice in London. She is a contentious insolvency expert and brings 18 years of experience progressing from cashier to appointment-taking insolvency practitioner. ​

Ms. Thompson specializes in global asset tracing and working through complex, high-profile disputes and litigation where there may have been wrongdoing, misfeasance/breach of duty and/or attempts to misplace assets with a primary focus on the recovery of assets for the benefit of creditors of an insolvent estate. She has worked with a range of clients, including company directors, creditors, and government departments across a range of industries, to recover millions of pounds of diverted assets, taxes and funds into unregulated investments.

Ms. Thompson is a qualified accountant and licensed insolvency practitioner; a member of the ACCA, ICAEW, and R3, and Chair of the R3 Women’s Networking committee.​  She also spearheads the A&M London Restructuring & Insolvency digital assets and cryptocurrency task force, so she has a keen interest in all things related to this sector and is keen to use her expertise to support the development of the Eastern Fraud Forum through engagement on the subject of fraud awareness and prevention.