Andrew Livingstone and Harris Waseem named managing directors at KR8 Advisory

Quick-growing enterprise advisory agency KR8 has expanded its London-based group with the appointment of two managing directors. Andrew Livingstone and Harris Waseem improve the agency’s restructuring and advisory capabilities.

Launched with the backing of K3 Advisory Group in 2025, KR8 Advisory was based by eight managing directors, unfold throughout places of work in Manchester, Leeds and London. Sitting in K3 Advisory Group’s Restructuring Advisory division – one in all 5 divisions, which additionally comprise Enterprise Gross sales & Deal Advisory, Enterprise Providers (together with specialist tax), Know-how Options and Wealth Administration – the agency started life hoping to make the most of a monetary panorama wherein KR8 Advisory noticed “a chance to supply progressive options the place shoppers want them most.”

Within the 12 months since, the agency has grown shortly. Based on a launch from the consultancy, these two appointments replicate “KR8’s continued funding in senior expertise because it expands its restructuring and turnaround providing, making certain shoppers profit from deep experience and coordinated assist throughout its restructuring, actual property and advisory groups” because it responds to heightened demand.

Andrew Livingstone is a licensed insolvency practitioner, bringing 20 years of expertise in monetary restructuring, contingency planning and operational wind-downs, together with cross-border and multi-stakeholder conditions. He has suggested throughout a spread of sectors, with specific experience in retail, leisure and hospitality, in addition to monetary companies.

“I’m delighted to be becoming a member of KR8 at an thrilling stage in its progress,” Livingstone mentioned of his appointment. “The agency’s collaborative method and sturdy repute present an amazing platform to assist shoppers by way of more and more advanced and difficult conditions.”

Harris Waseem brings one other twenty years of knowhow on board in the meantime. A chartered accountant and restructuring specialist, he boasts experience throughout each solvent and distressed conditions, alongside important worldwide and banking experience. He spent 15 years at a Massive 4 agency earlier than shifting into senior management roles inside UK mid-tier practices.

“I’m excited to be becoming a member of KR8 throughout a interval of fast progress and at a time when companies are dealing with ever-increasing monetary and operational challenges,” added Waseem. “As a agency, KR8 has already developed a powerful repute out there for delivering pragmatic, results-driven recommendation, and I sit up for working with each new and current shoppers to assist them navigate the assorted challenges they could be dealing with, serving to them to realize sustainable outcomes.”