The SA Restructuring and Insolvency Practitioners Association NPC (SARIPA) is a non-profit organisation, constituted in 1986, with a countrywide membership of over 670 qualified Insolvency Practitioners, Business Restructuring Professionals, Chartered Accountants, Lawyers, Bankers, Academics, Tax Consultants and others involved in liquidation, insolvency and business rescue services. The South African courts, regulators and financial institutions have come to recognise SARIPA as a dynamic organisation effectively representing the business rescue and insolvency professions.

The SA Restructuring and Insolvency Practitioners Association is a non-statutory, SAQA-recognised professional body. They have two professional designations:

1. Business Restructuring Professional;
2. Business Restructuring Professional (IP)