2025 Categories
With over 30 categories, the TRI Awards celebrate exceptional achievements across the turnaround, restructuring, and insolvency landscape. This platform highlights the brightest talents and top-performing teams, setting new benchmarks for success in the industry.
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An admin fee is applied for each entry submission. An early entry fee of £188 + VAT will be applied until 18 July 2025. A standard entry fee of £298 + VAT will be applied until the final deadline of 12 September 2025.
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Advocate of the Year
Who should enter?
This is an award that seeks to highlight a woman or ally who has sought to champion, in any capacity, the needs of women in their workplace or more widely within the industry.
Asset and Invoice Finance Provider of the Year
Who should enter?
This award is for organisations defined as asset and invoice finance firms or factoring firms by trade associations, such as the Finance & Leasing Association and Asset Based Finance Association, or fit the commonly held definitions of those corporate entities.
Asset Valuer/Auctioneer of the Year
Who should enter?
Applications for this award are welcomed from organisations within the valuation/auctioneer marketplace which belong to relevant recognisable industry bodies such as the National Association of Valuers and Auctioneers. Individuals from within these firms should also apply.
Best Technology Provider
Who should enter?
This award is open to all technology companies providing products and services to turnaround, restructuring and insolvency firms, law firms, turnaround funders, working capital providers and all other lenders/asset-based and invoice finance providers.
Best Use of Technology
Who should enter?
Any type of organisation in the turnaround, restructuring and corporate or personal insolvency profession, or supporting the profession, which has either developed technology and systems in-house, and/or used technology or data products and services provided by a supplier, to enhance business operations and service.
Boutique Insolvency and Restructuring Firm of the Year
Who should enter?
Companies and practices entering must be carrying out corporate insolvency, restructuring and turnaround work, with no more than three licensed, appointment-taking insolvency practitioners in the business/practice.
Corporate Rescue of the Year (Small)
Who should enter?
Any firm specialising in business rescue, insolvency, or restructuring may apply. Bank restructuring teams may also enter individually or jointly with a rescue firm.
Corporate Rescue of the Year (Medium)
Who should enter?
Any firm specialising in any aspect of business rescue is encouraged to apply for this award.
Corporate Rescue of the Year (Large)
Who should enter?
Any firm specialising in any aspect of business rescue is encouraged to apply for this award.
Corporate Rescue of the Year - Legal Team
Who should enter?
Law firms, in-house legal teams and legal practices that work with turnaround, corporate restructuring, and insolvency practitioners, to support the turnaround, restructuring and insolvency process, as well as the business rescue profession more generally.
Corporate Restructuring Firm of the Year - 1 to 3 licensed appointment-taking Insolvency Practitioners
Who should enter?
This award is open to UK corporate insolvency firms with 1 to 3 licensed appointment-taking insolvency practitioners.
Corporate Restructuring Firm of the Year - 4 to 15 licensed appointment-taking Insolvency Practitioners
Who should enter?
This award is open to UK corporate insolvency firms with 4 to 15 licensed appointment-taking insolvency practitioners.
Corporate Restructuring Firm of the Year – 16 or more licensed appointment-taking Insolvency Practitioners
Who should enter?
This award is open to UK corporate insolvency firms with 16 or more licensed appointment-taking insolvency practitioners.
Corporate Restructuring IP of the Year
Who should enter?
This award is for appointment-taking insolvency practitioners focusing on corporate restructuring, insolvency or turnaround in national or regional private practices.
Corporate Restructuring Lawyer of the Year
Who should enter?
Lawyers specialising in insolvency who provide legal and/or advisory services in the corporate restructuring process.
Creditor Engagement Award
Who should enter?
Any company with corporate turnaround, restructuring and insolvency as the main or significant part of its business services.
DE&I Champion of the Year
Who should enter?
This award honours those who have made extraordinary contributions to promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) within the turnaround, restructuring, and insolvency industry, regardless of their role.
Insolvency and Restructuring Chambers of the Year
Who should enter?
Any chambers comprising commercial law barristers operating in the turnaround, restructuring and insolvency field.
Insolvency Law Firm of the Year (1-3 Insolvency Partners)
Who should enter?
This award is open to law firms that can demonstrate that either a significant part of their work is in the corporate recovery and insolvency fields or that have a dedicated department or team working in these areas.
Insolvency Law Firm of the Year (4-10 Insolvency Partners)
Who should enter?
This award is open to law firms that can demonstrate that either a significant part of their work is in the corporate recovery and insolvency fields or that have a dedicated department or team working in these areas.
Insolvency Law Firm of the Year (11+ Insolvency Partners)
Who should enter?
This award is open to law firms that can demonstrate that either a significant part of their work is in the corporate recovery and insolvency fields or that have a dedicated department or team working in these areas.
Insolvency Litigation Funder of the Year
Who should enter?
Any company directly providing funding, or acting as an enabler for the provision of funding, for the purposes of insolvency litigation.
Insolvency Team of the Year
Who should enter?
Applications can come from teams across the whole spectrum of the insolvency industry, but NOT those who supply services to the sector.
Mentor of the Year
Who should enter?
This award highlights the critical significance of mentorship in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion within the turnaround, restructuring, and insolvency field.
Next Gen Leader Award
Who should enter?
Recognising outstanding professionals under 35 driving innovation and leadership in the TRI industry.
Outstanding Returner of the Year
Who should enter?
This is an award for women who have returned to work in the turnaround, restructuring and insolvency sector, whether it be from a sabbatical, for health reasons, maternity leave or indeed anything else, and have acted as a role model to other colleagues in the business.
Personal Debt Solution Provider of the Year
Who should enter?
This award is open to any organisation that provides personal debt solutions such as IVAs, debt management plans, bankruptcies, protected trust deeds and debt relief orders.
Property Valuation Provider of the Year
Who should enter?
Any business that provides property valuation and disposal services for creditors, turnaround practitioners and insolvency practitioners.
The TRI Company Award for Diversity and Inclusion
Who should enter?
Any company operating in the turnaround, restructuring and insolvency space including accountancy/professional services/business advisory firms; turnaround firms; insolvency practices; funders or lenders working with TRI professionals; insolvency law firms and chambers; trade bodies; litigation funders and all other service providers to turnaround, corporate restructuring and insolvency firms.
TRI Company Award for Sustainability
Who should enter?
Any UK business operating in the field of turnaround, restructuring and insolvency, personal insolvency, or the provision of personal debt solutions, plus service providers supporting these areas.
TRI Employer of the Year
Who should enter?
Any UK business operating in the field of turnaround, restructuring and insolvency, personal insolvency, or the provision of personal debt solutions, plus service providers supporting these areas.
Turnaround Firm of the Year
Who should enter?
Firms whose main business activity is turnaround, or corporate advisory firms for whom turnaround is a significant part of their business practice.
Turnaround of the Year
Who should enter?
This category is designed to reward outstanding work on a single business turnaround case study.
Turnaround Practitioner of the Year
Who should enter?
This award is for individual turnaround professionals who may or may not have insolvency qualifications in private practice, but whose main focus of their practice is on business turnaround.
Woman of the Year
Who should enter?
This awards acknowledges remarkable accomplishments achieved by a woman in the turnaround, restructuring, and insolvency sector.
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