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Services

We advise our clients on strategic reviews, new finance raisings, refinancings, special situations and balance sheet restructurings.

Strategic Review

• Compare financing structure to best-in-class
• Identify universe of options
• Implement change to meet stakeholder objectives

• Improve lending terms / generate cash out
• Introduce new lenders / investors
• Term out / extend maturities

• Keep control / preserve equity value
• Remove problem lenders
• Introduce new capital to facilitate turnaround

• New facilities to finance bid
• Funding / bid certainty
• Integration of new facilities with terms of existing facilities / security

• Beat staple to create competitive advantage
• Confirm deliverability
• Enable our clients to focus on key transaction value drivers

• Remove funding uncertainty
• Set hurdle for bidders
• Maximise competitive tension in sale process

• Disposal to delever / raise money
• Component in financial restructuring / balance sheet re-optimisation
• Transform borrower leverage profile

• Effective presentation of credit profile to agencies
• Optimise rating outcomes
• Achieve tightest spread to benchmark

• Hedging strategy supporting financing goals across:
• Rates
• Currencies
• Commodities