Advisory
CORPORATE ADVISORY
Do you know what lies further down the line?
Corporate advisory.
I support clients across the spectrum from start up to well-established businesses.
With more than twenty years experience across almost every industry and continent, I have developed exceptional knowledge of businesses, processes, management and the skills necessary to meet the needs of my clients ranging from project finance and forecasting, options analysis, working capital management through to exit management in a distressed situation.
Generating and preserving value is a core fundamental in my work.
For investors and financiers, this may mean carrying out a comprehensive review of an under-performing investment and preparing an exit strategy to ensure value is preserved as best possible. It can also be a pre-lending/investment review to better understand the project, its environment and the risks inherent.
For any party instructing me, they are certain of an independent mind with no conflicts of interest.
Management advisory.
I advise and support management teams that require strategic, financial and operational support.
For some management teams or entrepreneurs, I help them to turn ideas into reality and address skills shortfall or provide commercial expertise in modelling and forecasting:
- Building innovative business plan and models for startups, established businesses and projects
- Building project financial models
- Addressing (under)performance and profit improvement
- Assessing financial and operational plans including forecasts, analysis and stress testing
- Assessing opportunities for expansion, exit or development
And, where the management team is concerned about an impending or current distressed position, I help the team in:
- Preparing turnaround plans and cash flow projections
- Identifying possible sources of new capital, particularly through refinancing
- Addressing liquidity concerns
- Assessing the company's long-term viability and business strategy
- Liaising with creditors and their professionals
- Managing cash flow and working capital
- Identifying non-essential assets to be sold
- Designing and implementing a business turnaround plan to maximise profitability and cash flows
- Implementing a debt restructuring plan
Investor advisory.
I advise and provide support to investors in dealing with their under or non-performing investments.
I help evaluate the risks and opportunities associated with a distressed company, and in their dealings with various stakeholders.
A typical assignment includes:
- Assessing a company's long-term viability and business strategy
- Reviewing and assessing restructuring alternatives
- Crafting a best negotiation strategy with creditors and assisting in those negotiations
- Liaising with creditors and their professionals
- Re-establishing credibility with creditors and lenders
- Reviewing cash flow plans and analysis of cash conservation efforts and procedures
- Developing reorganisation plans
Creditor advisory.
I advise banks, asset-based lenders, debt funds, guarantors and other creditors providing independent business, solvency and cash flow reviews and options analysis.
In multi-creditor situations I can provide financial modelling solutions, entity priority analysis, common platform information reports, restructuring valuation and fairness opinions.
I have considerable experience in advising lenders in assessing and recovering non-performing loans.
I am able to help develop contingency plans, insolvency strategies and enforcement where a distressed creditor situation requires attention.
Typically, an assignment will include:
- Reviewing and assessing restructuring alternatives
- Analysing instrument structure, and recovery value options
- Analysing cash conservation efforts and procedures
- Valuing of security on a liquidation basis whether on an individual asset or partial going concern basis
- Assisting in negotiation of standstill agreements and restructuring terms
- Monitoring performance following business plan implementation