Stephen Briscoe has worked full-time on insolvency and corporate recovery assignments since 1973. He worked for 11 years for the Official Receiver in the United Kingdom before moving into private practice and has considerable experience in investigations, liquidations, and trading receiverships particularly in the manufacturing, service and leisure industries.

He has practiced in Hong Kong since 1997 where he has acted as liquidator or receiver of several hundred insolvent companies in a variety of industry sectors including construction, property, manufacturing, import and export and various service industries. Many corporate recovery assignments in Hong Kong have a China element and he has had acted for foreign investors on numerous occasions in creating value from distressed investments in Sino-Foreign Joint Ventures or Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprises in China.

He has also overseen a number of sizable forensic accounting reviews into companies where fraud or misfeasance is suspected, often in anticipation of litigation.

Stephen is the co-editor of the Hong Kong Corporate Insolvency Manual, a practical guide to corporate insolvency procedures in Hong Kong. He is also the co-author of the Hong Kong Personal Insolvency Manual and has written a number of articles on corporate recovery and insolvency. As one of the course directors of the Hong Kong Insolvency Diploma course, run jointly by the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Hong Kong University, he is also actively involved in steps to promote and improve the quality of education of Insolvency Practitioners in Hong Kong.

He is the managing director of Briscoe & Wong Ltd, which specialises in Corporate Recovery, Reconstruction, Insolvency, Forensic Accounting and Litigation Support in Hong Kong and PRC.