We provide fast, pragmatic advice to debt and equity providers in distressed scenarios.

Protecting your capital

We support funders at all stages of the funding cycle where financial distress is present.

Our approach has four central principles:

  • We are agile and can respond quickly to any scenario
  • We provide robust advice and pragmatic solutions rather than extraneous analysis
  • We seek to agree a remit at the outset which is focussed and proportionate in terms of time and cost
  • We strive for management buy-in and a consensual approach.

This approach enables us to give you realistic, actionable recommendations which either resolve the problem so that the capital risk is reduced or extinguished, or deliver an optimal exit, such as a refinance or restructuring.

Typical assignments

Whether advising in relation to debt or equity exposure, our mandates typically include:

Pre-lend/investment

  • Pre-lend/viability reviews
  • Complementary funding options
  • Alternative options review for businesses not meeting investor/funder criteria

Post-lend/investment

  • Advice to management on fiduciary duties and obligations to stakeholder
  • Resolution of shareholder/board disputes
  • Cash flow management

Restructuring and exit

  • Restructuring and contingency planning options
  • Refinance
  • Accelerated M&A
  • Formal insolvency appointments
  • Corporate simplification

Our credentials

Our team combines advisory, transactional, insolvency and regulatory expertise. Our creditor-side credentials include:

  • Extensive experience acting for clearing banks, including secondments to special situations/business support teams
  • Panel provider of advisory and restructuring services to multiple government agencies
  • Acted for a wide range of Asset Based Lenders and Alternative Finance providers on both advisory and recovery mandates.