KPMG Promotes Lisa Aune to Director in Crown Dependencies Restructuring Practice

KPMG's Crown Dependencies restructuring team now has a director with 20 years of Jersey finance experience and a mandate to lead complex cross-border insolvencies, a promotion that restructures career pathways for every manager in the group.

Lisa Aune was named Director within KPMG's Crown Dependencies Restructuring practice on April 2, stepping into a role that carries both operational authority over the team and direct oversight of restructuring and insolvency engagements across Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man. Aune, who holds an Insolvency Practitioners Association certificate, has built her practice around fund wind-downs, trading entity insolvencies and multi-jurisdictional structures.

For the managers and senior managers sitting beneath director level, the shift is immediate. Aune now controls resourcing decisions within the practice, which determines who gets staffed on the higher-complexity cross-border assignments that carry the most weight in promotion packets. She also assumes the primary coaching and mentoring function that, in leaner structures, tends to fall unevenly across stretched partners.

The types of cases driving the expanded mandate reflect genuine market pressure. Jersey is contending with rising insolvency volumes tied to refinancing constraints, declining real estate valuations and fund structures unwinding after years of elevated interest rates. Guernsey and the Isle of Man face comparable dynamics in the financial services sector, where complex, high-value insolvencies have been building through 2025 and into 2026. KPMG's Crown Dependencies practice spans all three jurisdictions, and Aune's director-level oversight effectively knits those mandates together under a single operational layer below partner, positioning the practice to absorb increasing deal flow without constant partner escalation.

Aune first joined KPMG in 2013 and spent three years with the firm before departing in 2016. She returned in 2023 and was elevated to Director two years into her second stint, a timeline that mirrors the standard reintegration-then-advancement cadence at major professional services firms.

Audit and advisory professionals who work adjacent to insolvency engagements should watch how the practice staffs up from here. Director promotions in specialized restructuring groups routinely open secondment pipelines for audit staff, and Aune's remit explicitly includes bench-building beneath her. The development plans flowing out of this appointment are likely to reward professionals who can demonstrate technical competence on creditor negotiations, solvent wind-downs or fund restructuring assignments. Managers angling for their next promotion cycle should be documenting any of that work now, before the next review window closes.