About us

This site is run by Galen Partners Limited as a free to use business information resource and most of the information given here is written by Mark Blayney author of the guide for business owner managers, Turning a Business Around.

Galen Partners is led by two highly experienced and expert business rescue and restructuring principals:

Mark Blayney – IfT PC holder & TMA member & former TMA Director
David Hole – TMA Director & fellow of ABRP

We deliver real results and can call on our transition directors network of:

Grey haired interim managers and
Expert specialist consultants.

We provide access to business finance in the form of equity, loans or publicly funded support.

We are credible, regulated, reputable and local.

We work:

mainly in the North East and North West,
as either advisors or hands on directors,
providing owner managed,
£3m to £25m turnover businesses,
with expert support and consultancy in:

- crisis management
- Independent Business Review (IBR) support,
- refinancing strategies and implementation, and
- turnaround and regrowth strategy development and implementation.

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We enjoy working with owner managed, family and entrepreneurial businesses in the £3m to £25m range where we can be involved in supporting and helping the business owner through their problems and towards a sustained recovery back into proper turnaround into success and regrowth.

We believe that turnaround is not just a short sharp matter of restructuring the balance sheet and cutting overhead costs (although these can be vital), but true turnaround is a longer harder process of restructuring the business so as to deliver improved quality and quantity of profits and business value.

We work normally across:

the North East, with clients in Newcastle, Northumberland, County Durham, Teesside (Darlington, Stockton and Middlesbrough);
Yorkshire from York down to Leeds, Halifax and Huddersfield on the M62 corridor; and
the North West, Cumbria, Lancaster, Wigan, Bolton and down to Manchester and Rochdale; as well as
the South and South East based around London where we have had clients in Cambridge, Reading, Oxford, Bristol, Gatwick and Eastbourne.

We are generalists, having worked across a wide variety of industries including a charter airline, branded goods importer, electronics manufacturer, clothing importer, construction group, business services, professional services, joinery manufacturer, a diversified manufacturing group, weaving, waste management, specialist contract labour supplier, plastics moulder, food manufacturer, furniture importer, pub & nightclub operator, window manufacturer, hospital equipment manufacturer, furniture retailer, E-based stock broker and farming and food production.

Our main fields are therefore manufacturing, construction, trading (import/export) and professional services businesses and we ‘speak the Insolvency Practitioner and Business Support banker’s language’.