Lucinda Coleman

Lucinda is a chartered accountant and a licensed insolvency practitioner in the UK. She is a partner at PKF Francis Clark and heads up the firm’s restructuring team. Lucinda provides advice to businesses nationwide across a variety of sectors including construction, legal, manufacturing, hospitality and agriculture.

Lucinda’s experience spans all areas of insolvency, including administrations, liquidations as well as business restructuring. Lucinda undertakes strategic business reviews which involves meeting with directors pre appointment to discuss where the business is and what to focus on to prevent it from closure. She also has a particular interest in forensic accounting, using technology to identify issues and find solutions to those directors maybe facing.

Lucinda prides herself on being empathetic, compassionate and providing clear, practical solutions to directors and creditors who find themselves in very difficult situations. She enjoys finding solutions to problems and thinking outside the box, therefore will consider all options before insolvency, with the focus always on saving the business where possible. Although not aggressive, she is not afraid to collect money and will ensure she obtains best value for assets.

Lucinda joined PKF Francis Clark in 2003 and has specialised in business recovery since 2005, becoming partner in 2017. ESG is personally important to Lucinda, and in her role as chair of the firm’s board and committee meetings, she actively drives these principles for the firm.

As chair of the ICAEW Ethics Advisory Committee, Lucinda is up to date with proposed changes to the ICAEW’s Code of Ethics and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme across the accountancy profession.

Lucinda is well known in the local business community and enjoys sharing knowledge and providing training to stakeholders and other professional advisors.