Corporate Recovery Specialist Trevor Birch joins PKF
25 August 2011: PKF, the leading firm of accountants and business advisers, has appointed Trevor Birch to head up its London Corporate Recovery and Insolvency team.
An insolvency and restructuring specialist, Trevor began his career at Arthur Young in Liverpool in 1983 and was promoted to partner in the firm, by then known as Ernst & Young, in 1993. He subsequently led the firm’s Northern corporate recovery practice.
Trevor left Ernst & Young in 2002 to become chief executive of Chelsea Football Club, where he brokered Roman Abramovich’s £140 million takeover of the club.
After leaving Chelsea, Trevor, a former professional footballer, undertook other quasi-restructuring roles in the football industry, serving as chief executive of Leeds United, Everton, Derby County and, most recently, Sheffield United.
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