Special Situations Advisory

Businesses facing stress or periods of significant change require fast solutions and assistance in navigating complex challenges to preserve value. 

Our special situations advisory team of turnaround and corporate finance experts provide tailored solutions to assist management teams, equity sponsors, and lenders in navigating financial stress.

Our special situations services

Financial and operational review services

Our team seeks to identify and understand the key risks and root causes of financial and operational issues, to then provide actionable solutions. We are constantly refining all aspects of our review services to ensure our clients' needs remain at the forefront of this process. Our review services include:

• Pre-lend reviews
• Operational due diligence
• Independent business reviews
• Cash flow and working capital reviews
• Limited scope reviews.

Management advisory services

Our suite of management advisory services works to understand the problems a business is facing to create and restore value to our clients, including:

• Working capital and cash flow modelling
• Interim management assistance
• Management and key performance indicator (KPI) reporting
• Financial and operational modelling
• Cash management improvements.

Distressed interim management

Effectively navigating financial distress demands specialist expertise to swiftly diagnose the situation, evaluate available options, craft a tailored turnaround strategy, and manage stakeholder relationships with precision. Our services include:

• Cash flow management and monitoring
• Scenario planning
• Interim Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Chief Restructuring Officer (CRO)
• Safe harbour
• Formal insolvency advice.

Capital advisory solutions

Our capital advisory approach is shaped by collaboration between our national and international corporate finance teams, ensuring it is fit-for-purpose in situations of distress and underperformance. This includes:

• Accelerated mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
• Debt restructuring
• Exit planning.