When looking at new opportunities, we use a methodical approach to understand each situation, based on a collaborative assessment of the business and then matching that to our client’s needs. Being able to identify the problem quickly and accurately, and then have sufficient breadth of knowledge to deal with it, is an effective way of helping distressed operations. There are many signs and symptoms of failure, so we diagnose troubled business against a spectrum of performance characteristics, ranging from the immediate to the long-term health of an enterprise.
When cash is tight and customers are no longer getting what they want, we provide crisis stabilisation.
If costs have run out of control, or inventory needs to be reduced to free cash, or where debtors and creditors need close, full-time management, cash generation and expense reduction becomes the priority.
Management teams occasionally become an obstacle to progress or move beyond the control of investors - where new leadership is needed, we are able to provide solutions.
When the priorities of investors, creditors, lenders, customers and staff compete with one another, clear and timely stakeholder management is key.
Is there adequate strategic focus? What level of analysis has taken place? Which products, segments and subsidiaries generate cash and profits? And what are the consequences for making and executing divestment decisions?
Key business processes have to work well in new or changing circumstances, for example following an acquisition, in response to capital investment or adapting to a new operations strategy and facility rationalisation.
Where organisational change needs to be made, we are able to work with staff and Trades Unions/Works Councils, rebuild management teams and instigate culture change in failing organisations.
If financial restructuring is required, we have experience of raising capital, refinancing, acquiring and selling businesses.
We work with organisations that require an executive involvement in understanding and managing these situations.
