Business advisory

A sustainable business model requires a clear understanding of all the potential options available. Making the right commercial decisions will help you maximise efficiency, reduce operating costs and improve performance - all of which are critical to long-term business success.

High-quality strategic advice can help your business to optimise performance at any point in its lifecycle. Making sure you have financial and strategic control will help prevent problems from arising; while if you run into difficulties, the right advice can help you get back on track.

• Corporate simplification: Working with corporate groups to reorganise or rationalise their structure and reduce their administrative and compliance costs including intra-group trade transfers, risk management and dormant company disposal
• Closure management: Supporting an orderly close down of a trading business to minimise liabilities when a business comes to the end of its useful life
• Retirements and special purpose vehicles: Legally closing down solvent companies and returning share capital to shareholders
• Group reconstruction and rollovers of investment: Reorganisation of groups in a tax-efficient way to help one or more shareholders dispose of part or all of their interest(s)
• Business and liquidity reviews: Advice and recommendations to lenders and other financial stakeholders on the options available when a business is nearing or has reached insolvency
• Contingency planning: Working with directors and managers to find the best possible routes out of a crisis
• Operational advice: Reviewing and enhancing processes, controls and management structures, as well as advising on key commercial risks, analysing business performance and identifying opportunities for improvement
• Strategic business advice: Advising on strategic options to ensure the survival or improvement of your business including business plans, financial models, stakeholder assessment and refinancing assistance
• Interim management: Providing chief restructuring officers, new board appointments and/or interim management, implementing a business restructure, enhancing performance, assisting with asset sales, reviewing systems, reducing overheads or helping to plan a managed exit
• Cashflow management: Helping you to manage and collect debts, phase supplier payments, negotiate with creditors, dispose of non-core assets, prepare short-term cashflow forecasts and communicate with other stakeholders
• Debt advisory (senior lenders): Business and options review, lender strategy, contingency and exit planning, viability and solvency reviews, turnaround and restructuring services
• Debt advisory (asset-based lenders): Pre-lending and independent business reviews and recovery work
• Debt advisory (borrowers): Contingency planning, debt raising and refinancing, short and medium-term cashflow planning and management