CORPORATE recovery and business advisory firm Quantuma has signed up one of the UK’s leading insolvency specialists.

Mark Sands has joined the firm as a partner and will lead Quantuma’s personal insolvency offering.

He will be based in Brighton and will also cover the London and Southampton offices.

His appointment follows the arrival of partner Mike Wright who heads up Quantuma’s operations in the north west, and consultant Martin Coyne in the Midlands.

Quantuma managing partner Carl Jackson said: “Mark Sands is well regarded as one of the UK’s leading personal insolvency specialists and is already known to most of our partners.

“He is a recognised expert in the personal insolvency arena, and just the calibre of recruit we were seeking to lead this area of the business.

“He will cover the UK for us, but it is our intention that he develops the Brighton office into a ‘centre of excellence’ for personal insolvency work.”

Mark Sands joins from Baker Tilly Creditor Services LLP - part of RSM - where he was a partner.

He is a former president of the Insolvency Practitioners’ Association and regularly chairs conferences and contributes to professional publications.

He sits on the personal insolvency committees of the Insolvency Practitioners’ Association and R3, and on the consulting editorial board for restructuring and insolvency at Lexis Nexis.

He said: “I have watched the growth of Quantuma over the past four and a half years into one of the UK’s leading insolvency firms and I felt that the ambition of the partners clearly matched my own.

“I look forward to leading the personal insolvency team from our Brighton office where we will be continuing to build on the firm’s already established reputation in this sector.”

Quantuma LLP is a leading restructuring and insolvency practice.