Cork Gully

Cork Gully is trusted advisory firm and portfolio manager specialising in restructuring, special situations and fund value recovery.

Based in London and working worldwide, Cork Gully is renowned for leading complex assignments and resolving challenging issues, delivering solutions that preserve value, restore confidence, and provide clarity in the most demanding circumstances.

Experience:

Cork Gully has been the leading name in restructuring for more than 100 years. Built on a solid heritage, we are a specialist advisory firm bringing clarity to complex restructuring, turnaround challenges and special situations. We demonstrate our commitment to clients by delivering innovative, results-driven solutions that achieve the best possible outcome in demanding financial and operational circumstances. We always put the client first, adopting effective strategies that address core business, liquidity and governance issues. Our partners define the issues and objectives clearly, ensuring even the most complex restructuring strategies are implemented successfully.

Stephen Cork serves as Managing Partner, with over 30 years’ experience focusing on restructuring and special situations, having specialised in restructuring and insolvency since 1989 and qualified in 1993. He is renowned for leading tough, complex assignments and is an experienced licensed insolvency practitioner.

Specialty:

Restructuring & Turnaround

Cork Gully provides independent, senior-led restructuring and turnaround services that help companies, creditors, and investors navigate financial stress. We act quickly to stabilise businesses, manage liquidity, and realign stakeholders, before implementing the optimal financial and operational solutions to protect and recover value.

Our services include:

• Corporate Turnaround & Stabilisation
• Financial Restructuring Services
• Complex Group Simplification Services
• Formal Insolvency & Contingency Planning
• Creditor & Stakeholder Advisory Services

Special Situations & Managed Exits

 Bespoke solutions for distressed, underperforming, or non-core assets requiring specialist expertise. Cork Gully supports stakeholders facing urgent pressures or complex challenges, delivering rapid stabilisation, disposals, or value recovery strategies. Combining commercial insight with decisive execution, our team unlocks opportunities, ensuring the best possible results in challenging circumstances.

Our services include:

• Managed Exits
• Accelerated M&A
• Digital & Complex Assets
• Offshore Contentious Insolvency
• Disputes, Investigations & Forensic

Corporate & Fund Services

Comprehensive fiduciary and governance services across corporates, funds, and special structures. Cork Gully acts as independent directors, trustees, and fiduciaries, providing impartial oversight, managing conflicts, and safeguarding stakeholder interests. Our experience ensures continuity and integrity in sensitive situations, from restructuring and dispute resolution to fund oversight and board support, delivering trusted leadership where independence and accountability are essential.

Our services include:

• Interim Management & Restructuring Officers
• Independent Directors & Trustees
• Interim Shareholder Solutions
• Court or Creditor Appointed Fiduciaries
• Monitorships
• Replacement GP

Fund Solutions & Value Recovery

Cork Gully helps GPs, LPs, and investors recover value from illiquid portfolios, legacy funds, and complex assets. We deliver independent fiduciary services, successor GP and asset management solutions, and bespoke strategies for end-of-life funds. Our expertise ensures governance, continuity, and recovery, enabling investors to maximise value and resolve challenges across diverse and difficult fund structures.

Our services include:

• GP/LP Advisory Services
• Portfolio Management
• Successor Asset Management
• End of Fund Life Solutions
• Asset Realisation Strategies
• Secondaries, GP Stakes & Carve-Outs