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Neil Christie

PartnerLondon

Leads our RTS Practice and operational-transformation and financial-restructuring programmes in energy and materials across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Neil, a partner in McKinsey’s London office, leads our RTS Practice in the energy and materials sector. Since joining the firm in 2013, he has led large-scale transformation programmes in engineering-based businesses, including upstream operators in the North Sea, mines in continental Europe and Nordic countries, and construction and building-materials businesses in the Middle East and Africa.

Neil gained his deep expertise over the past 18 years in a variety of interim management and restructuring advisory roles, principally in manufacturing, oil and gas, mining and smelting, construction, and financial services. He has held a number of interim board and officer roles in a variety of jurisdictions in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Neil’s experience in transformation and restructuring includes the following positions:

  • co-chief transformation officer for a major oil company’s UK transformation
  • chief restructuring officer of a Nordic specialty-chemicals business during its operational-turnaround programme and the restructuring of its debt
  • CTO for an Arctic Circle mining business, accelerating the ramp-up of operations following its acquisition out of insolvency
  • board member and COO for a regulated UK financial-services business established to wind down the assets of a global banking institution following its Chapter 11 insolvency

Earlier in Neil’s career, he was a partner in the Restructuring Practice of Alvarez & Marsal Europe, where he held a variety of board and interim management roles. He also spent five years working with the leveraged-finance and special-situations teams of Bank of America and Barclays Capital.

Published work

Transforming government in a new era,” McKinsey & Company, September 2022

A Practitioner’s Guide to Corporate Restructuring, City & Financial Publishing, June 2008, coauthor Chapter 4 “Restructuring strategies: long term”

Past experience

Alvarez & Marsal Europe LLP
Partner in the restructuring practice

Education

University of St. Andrews
BSc

Association of Corporate Treasurers
AMCT