Restructuring and turnaround strategy

Especially in times of uncertainty and disruption, many management teams struggle to sustain good control over short-term cash flows and the working capital that drives them, leaving the business vulnerable to market and operational changes.

We have experience supporting the complete spectrum of companies, whether a successful business seeking to enhance shareholder value or an organisation experiencing a cash crisis. We help you develop the three main ingredients of strong working capital management: identification of cash-generating opportunities, cash flow forecasting, and visibility and control through our advanced digital analytical techniques.

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EY can help with interim management acting as a Chief Restructuring Officer (CRO) and offering Chief Restructuring Advisor (CRA) services. Restructuring or turning around an organisation brings many challenges on top of the daily demands of running a business, for example: managing competing agendas, creating time to develop options, knowing which option is the right one when information may be imperfect and executing decisions at pace to maintain stakeholder support in a stressed environment.

We create understanding, alignment and support with internal and external stakeholders. We focus on actions that deliver transformational outcomes and provide interim management solutions, including offering a CRO or CRA, to help you deliver results.

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Stakeholders are asked to respond quickly when businesses underperform or suffer liquidity shortfalls or value erosion. We help provide support and communications in a rapidly changing environment when information is incomplete, agendas no longer align, and confidence is reduced.

We work with all stakeholders to preserve, create and recover value through restructuring advice, critical appraisal of a company’s ongoing viability, stakeholder intermediation, options analysis and entity priority analysis.

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Preserving value for a company and its stakeholders often requires a reshaping of the capital structure and assets in the portfolio. This is achieved by a combination of selling non-core assets or business units to generate cash, attracting new capital and rescheduling or retiring existing obligations. Our team is experienced in helping you prepare proposals, obtain stakeholder support and execute the transaction.

In the USA, Ernst & Young Capital Advisors, LLC (EYCA) is a registered broker-dealer and member of Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA: finra.org) and offers investment banking services with access to a network of EY debt restructuring, M&A, debt capital markets and equity capital markets professionals across the globe.

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Most businesses are likely to experience operational challenges and underperformance at some point. While the root causes can be buried, the negative impact can be highly visible — profit warnings, declining performance metrics, failure to achieve project milestones, loss of customer contracts or management departures.

Whether a business is in crisis or is simply facing an operational challenge, our team is experienced in helping underperforming or stressed businesses to develop and implement operational strategies to drive rapid performance improvement.

Private equity (PE) firms are increasingly required to identify and deliver operational improvements to achieve targeted returns.

Our value creation leaders provide hands-on support, from strategy to implementation, to help PE companies accelerate cash and profit improvements and deliver their investment case. Our PE team has extensive experience in complex carve-outs, functional transformations, and instances of stress or distress.

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Non-performing loans (NPLs) remain a challenge for banks, particularly in these times of economic uncertainty.

Our loan portfolio solutions team brings together experienced operators and deal advisors to advise financial institutions about their non-performing loan portfolios and also the buyers of those portfolios, delivering value through our breadth of knowledge and expertise.

At whatever stage an organisation is on the performance curve, tax is an area that cannot be overlooked. Tax strategies can have an enormous impact on your business recovery. 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 can help you create, preserve or recover value. The global EY network combines local tax knowledge across a broad spectrum of industry sectors, to help you make informed decisions and navigate the tax implications of all your business-critical decisions.

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