SME adviser links up with ex-rogue trader Leeson 'to save firms from Covid disaster'

Business advisory firm GDP Partnership has linked up with Nick Leeson to form the 'pandemic recovery team'

Former trader Nick Leeson served four years in prison in Singapore for his loss-making €1bn trades that in 1995 destroyed the 233-year-old Barings Bank. Picture: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Business advisory firm GDP Partnership has linked up with Nick Leeson, the former rogue trader, with the aim of saving scores of firms, as it warns about a flood of insolvencies from the unfolding Covid-19 economic crisis. 

Mr Leeson, who has lived in Galway for almost two decades, will link up with the all-Ireland GDP Partnership to advise small firms through this crisis.