restructuring founders jeremy french geoff rowley headquarters london united kingdom number of employees 200 website www.frpadvisory.com frp advisory is a business services firm based in the united kingdom providing restructuring and insolvency services and is one of the uk s largest specialists in the area of corporate restructuring recovery and insolvency . the firm was formed in june 2010 by jeremy french and geoff rowley whose initials form the basis of the name french rowley partners . the business has more than 200 staff including over 30 partners and operates from 12 locations across england and scotland . the business is a limited liability partnership owned by its partners . frp advisory includes the trading divisions frp transition and first financial . frp advisory is a member of the insolvency practitioners association ipa association of business recovery professionals r3 icaew acca aca and the turnaround management association tma . contents 1 history 2 stanford international bank 3 references 4 external links history edit the firm was formed in june 2010 to undertake a management buyout of the business recovery services division of vantis plc. 1 frp did not make a cash payment for the business but took on 11 million of vantis debt . 2 stanford international bank edit former vantis executives nigel hamilton smith and peter wastell were the joint liquidators of stanford international bank limited and stanford trust company limited 3 a high profile appointment which at the time was reported as contributing to the collapse of vantis although subsequent analysis of the fees due on the stanford case reveal that this was hugely inaccurate . citation needed hamilton smith and wastell transferred to frp advisory and continued to act on the liquidation and frp advisory fought to have them reinstated as liquidators of stanford after a court decision to remove them 4 but the eastern caribbean court of appeal confirmed their removal in may 2011 passing the case to grant thornton . 5 references edit vantis sale process months in the making accountancy age 8 jul 2010 frp took on 11m of debt from vantis accountancy age 15 september 2010 . retrieved 20 september 2010 stanford international bank . frp advisory . retrieved 19 january 2012 . stanford liquidators fight to stay on after vantis mbo accountancy age 30 jun 2010 stanford investors challenge court decision . antigua observer . 14 july 2011 . retrieved 3 january 2012 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title frp advisory & oldid 700261110 categories companies established in 2010accounting firms of the united kingdominsolvency and corporate recovery firmshidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from october 2015 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 17 january 2016 at 12 26 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view