Restructuring and Investigations

Restructuring and Investigations

We advise leadership teams on complex financial questions with a joined-up view of strategy, capital, and execution. Our work helps clients navigate market volatility, refine capital structures, evaluate opportunities, and protect long-term value with clear, defensible analysis.

Restructuring Services

Turnaround Strategy and Execution

Financial Restructuring

Operational Restructuring

Liquidity and Working Capital Management

Performance and Profit Improvement

Portfolio Rebalancing

Investigation Services

Fraud and Financial Investigations

2. Dispute Investigations and Litigation Support

3. eDiscovery

Restructuring Services

Turnaround Strategy and Execution

We help underperforming organizations move from immediate stabilization to a credible recovery plan. Our teams bring structure and pace to difficult decisions, aligning leadership and stakeholders around the actions needed to restore performance, rebuild confidence, and sustain the turnaround.

Independent Business Review:

Assess the business plan, financial outlook, and operational assumptions to provide an objective view of viability and recovery prospects.

Recovery Strategy:

Define strategic choices across markets, products, assets, and business units, focusing resources where the organization can generate sustainable value.

Turnaround Delivery Office:

Coordinate recovery initiatives, manage dependencies, and establish decision and escalation routines that keep execution focused and accountable.

Recovery Performance Management:

Track cash, profitability, delivery milestones, and emerging risks to support timely intervention and demonstrate progress to stakeholders.

Financial Restructuring

We help organizations reshape their financial obligations and capital structures to restore stability and support recovery. Our work connects business viability, funding requirements, and stakeholder priorities to develop credible restructuring options that preserve value and establish a sustainable financial footing.

Financial Position Assessment:

Assess debt obligations, covenant exposure, repayment capacity, and funding gaps to establish a clear view of financial pressure and available options.

Debt and Capital Restructuring:

Evaluate refinancing, debt rescheduling, capital injections, and asset disposals to align financial commitments with realistic business performance.

Stakeholder Engagement:

Support discussions with lenders, shareholders, and other creditors through clear analysis, credible proposals, and structured communication.

Restructuring Scenario Analysis:

Model alternative solutions, test downside risks, and assess their implications for cash flow, recoveries, and long-term viability.

Operational Restructuring

We work with leadership teams to address the operational causes of underperformance. By redesigning cost structures, processes, and resource deployment, we help organizations improve profitability and service reliability while protecting the capabilities needed for recovery and future growth.

Performance Diagnostics:

Identify sources of margin erosion, inefficiency, and delivery failure across business units, functions, products, and customer segments.

Cost Base Redesign:

Develop targeted actions across procurement, overheads, workforce deployment, and operating expenditure to achieve sustainable savings without weakening critical capabilities.

Operating Model Realignment:

Reshape structures, responsibilities, workflows, and service delivery arrangements to reflect business priorities and remove duplication.

Implementation and Benefits Tracking:

Translate recommendations into accountable workplans, with clear owners, milestones, and measures that verify savings and operational improvements.

Liquidity and Working Capital Management

We help organizations regain control of cash and release funds tied up in day-to-day operations. Our approach combines short-term cash visibility with practical working capital improvements, enabling leaders to meet critical obligations, manage funding pressure, and create room for recovery.

Short-Term Cash Forecasting:

Build rolling cash forecasts, including 13-week views where appropriate, to identify funding shortfalls, test assumptions, and guide immediate decisions.

Working Capital Release:

Improve receivables collection, inventory management, and supplier payment arrangements to unlock cash while maintaining essential commercial relationships.

Cash Governance and Controls:

Establish payment priorities, approval disciplines, and reporting routines that strengthen accountability and reduce avoidable cash leakage.

Liquidity Stabilization:

Assess contingency funding options and cash conservation measures to protect essential operations under stressed and downside scenarios.

Performance and Profit Improvement

We help businesses increase profitability by strengthening revenue performance and improving the economics of how they operate. Our work identifies where profit is generated or lost, prioritizes practical commercial and operational improvements, and supports delivery of measurable gains in earnings and returns.

Profitability Diagnostics:

Analyze profitability by product, customer, channel, and business unit to identify underperformance, margin leakage, and opportunities to improve returns.

Revenue and Pricing Improvement:

Refine pricing, discounting, customer mix, and sales effectiveness to capture profitable demand and increase the value earned from existing capabilities.

Margin and Productivity Improvement:

Improve procurement, resource utilization, and service delivery economics to reduce avoidable costs and raise output from the existing asset base.

Profit Improvement Delivery:

Build prioritized initiatives with accountable owners and financial targets, tracking realized earnings improvements against agreed baselines.

Portfolio Rebalancing

We help organizations reshape their business portfolios to improve profitability and focus capital on stronger opportunities. Our work assesses which businesses to retain, improve, or exit, and where to enter or expand, balancing expected returns with strategic fit, execution risk, and funding capacity.

Portfolio Performance Assessment:

Evaluate business units and investments against profitability, cash generation, capital requirements, and strategic fit to identify priorities for retention, improvement, or exit.

Divestment and Exit Planning:

Develop disposal, separation, or managed exit plans for underperforming and non-core businesses, assessing value, dependencies, and implications for continuing operations.

Market Entry and Expansion:

Assess higher-return markets, businesses, and acquisition opportunities through commercial analysis, feasibility studies, and financial scenarios to guide growth decisions.

Capital Reallocation and Execution:

Prioritize investment across the revised portfolio and coordinate transition plans, monitoring returns and progress against the investment case.

Investigation Services

Fraud and Financial Investigations

We help organizations establish the facts when fraud, financial irregularities, or misuse of assets is suspected. Our work combines financial analysis, document review, and structured interviews to understand what occurred, assess the impact, and support proportionate action based on reliable evidence.

Allegation Assessment and Scoping:

Assess reported concerns, identify relevant records and stakeholders, and define a focused investigation plan with appropriate confidentiality safeguards.

Forensic Financial Analysis:

Examine transactions, accounting records, and supporting documentation to identify unexplained movements, concealed relationships, and potential misappropriation.

Evidence Review and Interviews:

Review relevant business records and digital information, alongside structured interviews, to develop and corroborate a clear account of events.

Loss Assessment and Remediation:

Quantify identified financial exposure, explain control failures, and recommend actions to support recovery efforts and reduce the risk of recurrence.

Dispute Investigations and Litigation Support

We help clients and their legal advisers understand the financial and commercial facts behind complex disputes. Our work reconstructs transactions, evaluates competing claims, and develops transparent analysis to support informed negotiation, arbitration, or litigation strategies.

Dispute Fact-Finding:

Review contracts, correspondence, financial records, and transaction histories to establish the sequence of events and assess contested issues.

Financial Loss and Claims Analysis:

Assess claimed losses, disputed balances, and financial impacts using transparent methodologies, documented assumptions, and appropriate scenario testing.

Funds and Asset Tracing:

Analyze available records to map the movement of funds, identify relevant counterparties, and support asset recovery assessments.

Evidence-Based Reporting:

Prepare clear reports, supporting schedules, and analytical responses that help legal advisers evaluate positions and challenge unsupported claims.

eDiscovery

We help organizations and their legal advisers identify, preserve, and review electronic information relevant to investigations and disputes. Our work brings structure to emails, transaction records, and other digital material, enabling efficient fact-finding and a clear, traceable record of the evidence reviewed.

Data Identification and Preservation:

Identify relevant custodians, systems, and date ranges, and support preservation and collection of electronic records with documented handling and confidentiality controls.

Data Processing and Organization:

Organize collected information, remove duplicates, and prepare searchable datasets while retaining relevant metadata and links to source records.

Targeted Review and Analysis:

Review emails, messages, transaction records, and documents using focused searches and analytics to identify relevant communications, relationships, and timelines.

Evidence Management and Reporting:

Maintain review logs and document references, and prepare organized evidence sets and summaries to support investigation findings and legal disclosure requirements.

how it works

Our Consulting Process

Advisory and execution support to sharpen strategy, operations, and governance.

Initial Discussion

We begin by clarifying your objectives, context, and constraints to define a focused scope and success measures.

Development of Ideas

We work with your team to design targeted, practical solutions aligned with your priorities.

Testing and Trying

We validate and refine our recommendations using data and stakeholder input to ensure impact.

Execution and Support

We support implementation, monitor results and transfer capabilities to sustain performance.