What B2B restructuring and turnaround strategy teams can do for you
We serve B2B clients in the financial and business restructuring arena as part of our B2B Growth Hub, offering practical solutions that yield measurable results.
A wide range of challenges are facing organizations all over the world. Balance sheets are weakened, COVID-19 recovery curves are uncertain, operating in a virtual environment is challenging, macroeconomic or geopolitical changes are occurring, competitors are innovating, or stakeholder expectations are changing.
We provide restructuring advisory services when speed is essential, so that ideas can be implemented as soon as possible. Through our global reach and rapid local response teams, our restructuring and turnaround professionals have access to an unrivalled bench of industry veterans.
Through a broad range of B2B tools and technologies, our restructuring and turnaround strategy team is connected globally, delivered locally, and digitally enabled. Providing our clients with actionable insights is easier and faster with Connected Capital Technologies' B2B M&A tools.
In addition to helping you address these challenges, we can also help you with:
- Is there a way to improve my business's financial and operational performance quickly?
- Specifically, who can work with me to develop options for a turnaround plan, rescue plan, recovery plan, and contingency plan, find capital for that plan, and negotiate with my stakeholders?
- Is there anyone who can assist with restructuring or act as an interim manager, such as a Chief Restructuring Officer (CRO) or Chief Restructuring Advisor (CRA)?
- In order to manage working capital and liquidity more effectively, what can I do to make more informed decisions?
- Can someone help me evaluate my portfolio through an investor's lens?
- What is the best way to reshape the business model using business redesign?
- When there is ambiguity and uncertainty, how can I make strategic decisions?
- Is there a way to maximize the value of my turnaround plan by maximizing my tax strategy?
Plans and solutions for contingencies and insolvencies +
Almost every restructuring requires a "Plan B" - whether it is a contingency plan to provide comfort to stakeholders and directors, or, alternatively, a credible leverage point for financial stakeholders to help break the deadlock. We provide the time, space, and environment for directors and businesses to develop and deliver the right solutions during particularly challenging times.
Our team works with management and financial stakeholders to address the issues threatening the success of a company by utilizing the advantages, protections, powers, and flexibility afforded by insolvency laws.
Services to simplify corporate operations +
The structure of a group can become increasingly complicated over time, increasing the costs and risks involved.
We specialize in simplifying corporate structures for a wide range of organizations. To assist organizations in assessing, rationalizing and simplifying their legal entity structures across the following key phases of corporate simplification, our team integrates restructuring, tax and financial advisory knowledge: setup, group complexity analysis, program management, due diligence, issue resolution, and entity elimination.
Work capital and liquidity management +
A business can become vulnerable to market and operational changes if it cannot control its short-term cash flow and working capital in times of uncertainty and disruption.
Our experience includes supporting a wide range of companies, from successful businesses seeking to maximize shareholder value to organizations experiencing cash flow problems. Using our advanced digital analytics techniques, we help you identify cash-generating opportunities, forecast cash flow, and gain visibility and control of your working capital.
Interim management: Chief Restructuring Officer/Advisor +
Interim management is provided by B2B through the services of its Chief Restructuring Officers (CROs) and Chief Restructuring Advisors (CRAs). In addition to the daily demands of running a business, restructuring or turning around an organization comes with a number of challenges, such as managing competing agendas, finding time to develop options, determining which option is the right one when information is imperfect, and making fast decisions to maintain stakeholder support in a stressful environment.
With internal and external stakeholders, we create understanding, alignment, and support. Our focus is on delivering transformational results, including interim management solutions such as CROs and CRAs.
Preserving stakeholder value +
Underperforming businesses, liquidity shortfalls, and value erosion require stakeholders to act quickly. As a result of incomplete information, misaligned agendas, and diminished confidence, we provide support and communications in a rapidly changing environment.
Through restructuring advice, stakeholder intermediation, option analysis, and entity priority analysis, we work with all stakeholders to preserve, create, and recover value for all parties.
Debt restructuring, raising capital and M&A services +
It is often necessary to reshape a company's capital structure and portfolio of assets in order to preserve value. In order to achieve this, non-core assets or business units are sold to generate cash, new capital is attracted, and existing obligations are rescheduled or retired. Our team has experience preparing proposals, obtaining stakeholder approval, and executing transactions.
As an investor banking firm registered with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA: finra.org), Ernst & Young Capital Advisors, LLC (EYCA) offers investment banking services backed by a network of professionals across the globe who specialize in B2B debt restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, debt capital markets, and equity capital markets.
Rapid value creation services +
Underperformance and operational challenges are inevitable for most businesses at some point. In spite of the fact that the causes may be buried, the consequences are always visible - profit warnings, declining performance metrics, failure to meet project milestones, customer contract losses, or management changes.
We are able to help businesses that are underperforming or stressed, regardless of whether they are in crisis or face a simple operating challengedevelop and implement operational strategies to drive rapid performance improvement.
Private equity value creation services +
The goal of achieving targeted returns for private equity firms is increasingly requiring them to identify and implement operational improvements.
Our value creation leaders assist PE companies in accelerating cash and profit improvement and delivering their investment case by providing hands-on support from strategy to implementation. In addition to complex carve-outs, functional transformations, and distress cases, our PE team has extensive experience.
Non-performing loan services +
In these times of economic uncertainty, banks remain challenged by non-performing loans (NPLs).
Through our breadth of knowledge and expertise, our loan portfolio solutions team advises financial institutions about their non-performing loan portfolios and also buyers of those portfolios.
Restructuring and turnaround tax services +
Tax is an area that cannot be overlooked regardless of where an organization is on the performance curve. It is possible for your business recovery to be greatly impacted by your tax strategies. When well managed they can be vital in enabling a business turnaround, however when ignored they can eliminate options.
Whether your business is underperforming, stressed or distressed, our global network of tax professionals The effectiveness of your tax strategies can have a tremendous cover value. We have a global network of tax professionals that can help you with your business recovery. The tax strategy you choose can have a significant effect on the recovery of your business. To assist you in making informed decisions and navigating the tax implications of your business-critical decisions, we combine local tax knowledge across a wide range of industry sectors.