Turnaround & Restructuring

Providing clear and insightful analysis to support management, the board and/or shareholders and key creditors in times of uncertainty and underperformance, helping them to stabilise the business, identify and implement value creation opportunities.
 

• Business and operational strategy review and assessment
• Financial debt review, assessment and options analysis
• Short term cash flow sensitivity analysis
• Crisis management and communication
• Turnaround planning and implementation

Improving business performance with a customised and pragmatic turnaround strategy.
 

• Practical and customised turnaround management solutions
• Comprehensive and sustainable corporate turnaround strategy considering time and liquidity constraints
• Re-establishing a strong foundation and implementing operational business performance improvement initiatives to enhance future growth

Our option analysis services help our clients to align stakeholders around strategic, operational and financial options. We will work with you to identify the potential options available to transform and move forward.
 

• Strategic options analysis – Fix, sell or close
• Operational options – Cost out, operational measures, cash and working capital optimisation
• Financial options – Capital raising, financial restructuring, contingency planning

By generating momentum through rapid value changes, an organisation can build and strengthen its capabilities and implement structural changes to increase value capture. We focus on leveraging a number of tactical, operational, and strategic levers to generate rapid value, strengthen and build capabilities and effect structural change.
 

• Rapid value: Implement quick wins that generate significant benefits and are controlled by the company. Typical benefit improvement is +5 to 15% of net working capital and time to benefit of less than 4 months.
• Build capabilities: Build core capabilities to deliver incremental benefits and sustainable results. Typical benefit improvement is +10 to 20% of net working capital and time to benefit of 6 to 10 months.
• Structural change: Fundamentally change the business model to deliver step-change improvements. Typical benefit improvement is +20% of net working capital and time to benefit of up to 12 months.

Whether you require our professionals to act as the lead advisor, to rapidly deliver robust financial analysis to support the restructuring plan, to conduct an independent business review or to develop contingency plans, we are ideally placed to ensure a successful and timely outcome.
 

• Debt and financial restructuring analysis, including negotiation with trade creditors and financial institutions
• Chief restructuring officer (CRO) services
• Distressed M&A planning
• Bankruptcy advisory

We work with clients to devise and implement the optimal strategy for non-core or underperforming business units or markets
 

• Help you evaluate, construct, and deliver a comprehensive and custom-made exit program, effectively extending across borders to provide global solutions.

Managed Exit
 

Options analysis and planning & implementing the chosen exit strategy 

Delivered through M&A and RS activities in combination or sequence
 

Special Situations M&A 
 

• Can part of the business be sold?
• Test the market via a Special situations M&A process
• Business sold or switch to wind-down

Wind Down & Closure (RS)
 

• Analysis, recommendations and planning
• Operational wind down
• End game / solvent Liquidation

We utilise the firm's global network and SMEs to deliver the optimal exit outcome