China Evergrande: the people behind the indebted developer’s overhaul

Restructuring experts from Alvarez & Marsal will rely on China connections and a track record of complicated corporate overhauls as they try to engineer an outcome for property giant Evergrande that will involve creditors, authorities and home buyers. Tiffany Wong and Eddie Middleton, both managing directors at A&M, were appointed by a Hong Kong court last month after a liquidation petition was approved following about 18 months of talks with China Evergrande Group's offshore creditors. Evergrande, founded in 1996 by Hui Ka Yan, grew to become the poster child of China's property boom in the first two decades of the 2000s.