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Here you can find CAPA’s latest appointments to undertake forensic audits, as well as instructions for property services from a range of blue-chip clients including retailers, insolvency practitioners, leisure operators, banks and venture capitalists.

  • Gordon Bros children’s hospital charity golf day 2018

    Capa were delighted to be Gold Sponsor of The 25th Annual Philip and Bernice Frieze Charity Golf Tournament which took place on Monday, July 16, 2018 at the Pinehills Golf Club in Plymouth, MA. The tournament benefits The Philip and Bernice Frieze Fund at Boston Children’s Hospital.

    Since it began in 1994, the tournament has raised over $3.6 million. The event was founded by and is organized by employees of Gordon Brothers in the name of the company’s former CEO, Philip Frieze, who passed away in 1993. 

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  • Tri Awards 2018

    CAPA are delighted to be headline sponsor of the Tri Awards again this year, you can find out more about the Tri Awards HERE

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  • CAPA to recover cash for creditors of latest high street casualty

    CAPA has been appointed to undertake a rates audit across nearly 60 sites at Bags Etc Ltd  – the latest high street retail chain to collapse into insolvency.

    A national luggage and handbag retailer that had grown since its 2003 inception into a £20m turnover business, Bags Etc traded from 58 shops around the UK and Ireland. The company also employed about 350 staff across its stores and warehouse operations.

    Headquartered in Harlow, Bags Etc had experienced severe financial difficulties in recent years due to similar problems that are now having an impact on many other retail chains.

    The retailer had a number of stores that were loss-making as consumers moved to stronger, premium and central shopping centres. This left the Bags Etc stores located in more suburban shopping centres struggling to turn a profit. Wider issues in the retail market had also affected Bags Etc, as consumers shifted towards online platforms instead of visiting stores.

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  • CAPA to attend R3 Annual Conference

    Capa are delighted to be attending the R3 Annual Conference taking place in Vilamoura, Portugal at the Anantara Hotel on 23-25 May 2018. 

    We look forward to seeing you there!

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  • CAPA at The Credit Awards 2018

    CAPA were delighted to attend The Credit Awards 2018 on May 17th at Grosvenor House Hotel, Mayfair as guests of Shard Media Group. You can find the list of the winners here. 

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  • Ace in the hole: TRI Golf Day winner revealed

    As sponsor of Credit Strategy’s inaugural TRI Golf Day, CAPA can now reveal the best performing players who hit their peak at the championship course at Foxhills Golf Club.

    An invite-only event, held at the prestigious course in Surrey on May 9, the TRI Golf Day saw the turnaround, restructuring and insolvency profession’s elite players teeing off against each other.

    Foxhills, based in the heart of the English countryside, is home to an 18-hole Top 100 ranked Longcross Course. The day was hosted by Credit Strategy, organisers of the annual Turnaround, Restructuring and Insolvency (TRI) Awards, for which CAPA is also headline sponsor.

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  • CAPA to maximise returns for creditors of video game chain

    Administrators of Grainger Games Ltd, the nationwide chain of video game stores, have instructed CAPA to undertake a rates audit of 69 properties at the company.

    Newcastle-based Grainger, the UK’s leading independent specialist retailer of video game consoles, software, accessories and merchandise, entered administration on April 4 2018.

    The company, which also trades in, sells and repairs smartphones, tablets and digital cameras, was a household name in the gaming world with nearly 70 stores across the country, but it had faced challenging trading conditions during the past year. Like other businesses across the UK games retail market, the company’s margins had come under pressure. A recent cut to its supplier credit limits had also caused significant operational challenges.

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  • EY calls in CAPA for rates audit

    EY, the global advisory and accountancy firm, has instructed CAPA to conduct a rates and accounts payable audit across 28 sites at T.O.M. Group Ltd, the vehicle rental company in administration.

    Colin Dempster and Fiona Taylor of EY’s restructuring team were appointed administrators of T.O.M. Group along with its Scottish subsidiaries, T.O.M. Vehicle Rental Ltd and Caledonian Truck & Van Ltd, in March.

    The group had suffered operational difficulties and liquidity problems in recent years. This was reflected in low usage of the company’s rental vehicles, as a result of a competitive market, and changing customer preferences. These circumstances led to very challenging trading conditions and losses in recent months.

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  • CAPA to dig up sums for national garden centre chain

    CAPA has been called in for a property audit at Home & Garden, the national chain of garden centres that folded after the ‘beast from the East’ turned shoppers away.

    H&G (Retail) Limited, trading as Home & Garden, entered insolvency along with its subsidiaries on March 27, when Adam Harris and Patrick Lannagan of Mazars, the international accountancy and advisory firm, were appointed as joint administrators.

    Unexpected severe weather conditions at the start of the year, which worsened when the ‘beast from the east’ hit Britain throughout March, impacted the group’s cash flow during the first quarter of 2018.

    After their appointment, the administrators have now instructed CAPA to conduct a full property audit across eight Home & Garden stores.

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  • Newsletter and Easter

    Check out our latest newsletter where you can find out about our thoughts on the year ahead and the cases we've worked on recently.

    You can sign up to our newsletter here. We send out newsletters every few months and we don't share your information with any 3rd parties. You can unsubscribe at any time.

    Thanks to Rebecca Dacre from Mazars, Milton Keynes for posting this photo on Twitter of one of the Easter hampers we sent out recently. Hope you all enjoyed your hamper if you received one and hope you had a great Easter!  

    Easter hamper

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