AT A GLANCE

Wessel de Jager is Director in the Restructuring practice, based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Wessel leverages more than 20 years of experience in managing distressed and turnaround matters in both the formal and informal environment, having worked for the predominant lenders in South Africa on several multi-lender restructuring matters since 2002 on South African and global matters.

Prior to joining Kroll, Wessel served as Senior Associate Director at Deloitte where he focused on client and lender side advisory work on prominent informal restructuring matters as well as business rescue matters. Prior to that, Wessel managed and led several multi-lender distressed investment banking matters for a prominent South African corporate and investment bank. Before that, he has also managed a distressed private equity portfolio across several African countries and has managed the distressed investment banking portfolio of a prominent African bank across the Central and Western African regions.

Wessel is a South African Restructuring and Insolvency Association accredited business restructuring professional and a licensed business rescue practitioner (experienced) with CIPC. He has completed a bachelor’s degree (Hons) in accounting from the University of South Africa and has a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) degree with a specialization in accounting and finance from Stellenbosch University.

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