Our Team
EXPERIENCE AT THE TABLE.
A specialist team of restructuring, turnaround and business rescue professionals with broad cross-border and South African experience.
THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE WORK
EXPERIENCE FOR COMPLEX SITUATIONS.
Dr. Sello Mkhondo
FOUNDER
PhD · Senior Business Rescue Practitioner · SARIPA & TMA
Dr Sello Mkhondo is a Senior Business Rescue Practitioner and experienced restructuring professional with more than 35 years of business, financial and executive leadership experience. His career spans business rescue, corporate restructuring, turnaround management, corporate and investment banking, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic advisory.
Sello has held senior leadership and corporate finance roles across a range of organisations, including Nedbank, ABN AMRO Bank and NEHAWU Investment Holdings, providing him with a strong foundation in investment banking, transaction execution and complex stakeholder management. He has also advised on cross-border corporate, project and trade finance transactions and has been involved in restructuring assignments both within South Africa and across the African continent.
As a CIPC-licensed Senior Business Rescue Practitioner and Certified Turnaround Practitioner, Sello has acted as BRP, restructuring advisor and independent reviewer across a broad range of sectors and distressed situations. His experience encompasses financial and balance-sheet restructurings, operational turnarounds, creditor advisory and business rescue proceedings.
Sello holds a PhD in Business Management from the University of Pretoria, with his doctoral research focused on pre-packaged business rescue and restructuring solutions. His academic work has contributed to the development of thinking around pre-pack restructurings in South Africa, including research into funding structures and international pre-pack principles. He also holds an MBA and Bachelor of Accounting Science and remains actively involved in postgraduate business rescue education and research. Sello also holds certificates in Mergers as well as Financial Capital Markets from Northwestern University (Chicago) and Georgetown University (Washington) respectively.
Michael Segal
FOUNDER | DIRECTOR
LLB · LDIP Insolvency & Labour Law · LPC · SARIPA & TMA
Michael Segal is a South African entrepreneur and Business Restructuring Professional with more than 25 years’ experience spanning business rescue, corporate restructuring, insolvency, valuations, bridging and post-commencement finance, property and strategic consulting.
He holds legal qualifications including LLB, H dip in Insolvency Law and a H Dip in Company law.
His restructuring career began in 1999 at Howard Ian Segal Attorneys, where he established a highly successful collections division before developing a specialist debt and business restructuring practice. He subsequently founded Debt Doctor, Prestige Auction Group, Segal Consulting, ProVal Valuation Services and Segfin Capital, among other ventures.
In 2025, Segal was recognized by SARIPA as a Business Restructuring Professional (NQF 8).
He currently holds directorships, board positions and/or shareholdings across businesses involved in business rescue, finance, legal consulting, venture capital and property investment including Segfin Capital, Vector North and associated enterprises.
Enke de Roos
FOUNDER
Business Rescue Practitioner · BCom Hons · CRA · SARIPA & TMA
Enke De Roos is a dynamic turnaround consultant and junior business rescue practitioner known for her strategic clarity, structured execution, and practical project management expertise. She has worked on numerous business rescue assignments across diverse industries and has successfully delivered multiple business rescue plans simultaneously within exceptionally tight timelines.
Deeply committed to professional excellence, Enke serves on the board of the Turnaround Management Association of Southern Africa (TMA-SA) and is an active member of SARIPA. She has also been selected for the INSOL Future Leaders Programme 2025, reflecting her ambition to become one of the leading young voices in restructuring globally.
Driven, diligent, and solutions-focused, Enke is recognised for her ability to bring order to chaos, move teams with confidence, and navigate difficult negotiations with a balance of empathy and firmness. Her work is defined by integrity, resilience and an unwavering commitment to helping businesses find sustainable paths forward and preserving jobs.
Enke holds a BCom Marketing qualification and a BCom Hons qualification in Strategic Management from the University of Johannesburg as well as the Certified Rescue Analyst qualification from the University of Pretoria.
Liam Royce
FOUNDER
LLB · MPhil · Experiened Business Rescue Practitioner · SARIPA & TMA
Lian Royce is an attorney and licensed Business Rescue Practitioner with extensive experience in business rescue, turnaround consulting, commercial law, labour law and strategic business advisory. Over the course of his career, he has advised on more than 100 business rescue and business turnaround engagements, working with executives, business owners, consultants and other professional advisers across companies of varying sizes and in a broad range of sectors.
His experience encompasses both formal business rescue processes and informal turnarounds, with involvement spanning pre-investigation, business rescue plan development, operational restructuring, stakeholder and creditor negotiations, labour and employment matters, strategic planning, transaction support and the implementation and monitoring of approved rescue plans. He has worked with businesses in sectors including manufacturing, mining, agriculture, construction, property, retail, FMCG, logistics, transport, technology, hospitality and professional services.
He brings a combination of legal expertise, commercial understanding and practical turnaround experience, allowing him to contribute to both strategy and implementation. His role has included acting directly as a Business Rescue Practitioner, as well as advising and supporting other practitioners, executives and consultants on complex turnaround matters.
His academic and professional development includes an MPhil in Business Management, Insolvency and Business Rescue, a Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Management, the Certified Rescue Analyst programme, SARIPA’s Insolvency Law and Practice programme, and the Certified Turnaround Practitioner designation.
Ruan van NIekerk
FOUNDER | DIRECTOR
Experiened Business Rescue Practitioner · BBA (Hons) · CRA · SARIPA & TMA
Ruan van Niekerk is a Business Rescue Practitioner and restructuring professional whose experience spans formal business rescue, informal restructuring, turnaround management and financial advisory. He has advised businesses ranging from owner-managed companies to large corporate groups, on both South African and international engagements.
He has contributed to some of South Africa’s most notable informal restructurings, working within multidisciplinary teams on complex financial and operational challenges. Internationally, his cross-border work has involved businesses and stakeholders in Ghana, Germany and other parts of Europe. That work has spanned complex financial modelling, liquidity and cash flow forecasting, business planning, stakeholder reporting and negotiations, and the development and implementation of restructuring strategies.
His background pairs financial restructuring with hands-on operational turnaround experience, including the management of multiple business and asset sale processes.
Ruan holds a BCom in Entrepreneurship and an Honours degree in Business Administration, and is a Certified Business Rescue Analyst with distinction. He has also been recognised by INSOL International through its Young Practitioner Spotlight for his contributions to the insolvency industry.