AlixPartners appoints Asia co-heads

AlixPartners is shaking up its Asia-Pacific leadership just as a major U.S. client wraps up a headline $1.4 billion restructuring. The firm’s now betting big on APAC, naming Reshmi Khurana and Takuro Ueji as Co-Heads of Asia, while longtime regional leader Shiv Shivaraman moves to a newly created Vice Chair role. The goal: accelerate expansion, land cross-border mandates, and avoid revenue holes as senior consultants roll off big U.S. projects. It’s a high-stakes test—if they can redeploy freed-up talent into Asia and Australia, they could claim more ground as insolvencies and demand for transformation surge across the region.

But here’s the catch: dual leadership structures can slow decisions, especially in fragmented, cross-border work. The new setup is designed to separate daily execution from major investments, with Shivaraman unlocking M&A and new markets. Yet without more partner-level depth beyond Japan and Singapore, competitors like Alvarez & Marsal and the Big Four are poised to grab mandates where local presence matters most. All eyes are on whether AlixPartners can promote and hire senior talent fast enough—especially in hot sectors like Industrials and TMT—to keep pace with the region’s growth and complexity.

Featuring insights from People Matters and Bloomberg, plus on-the-ground moves like the hiring of ex-IBM exec David Ellis in Sydney, this episode cuts through the headlines and explains what’s next for AlixPartners in APAC.

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