Services.

Engage us when

• –The 13-week cash forecast is being built for the first time, or nobody trusts the one that exists
• –A covenant will be breached within two quarters and the lenders have not been told
• –The CEO or CFO seat is empty, or about to be, in the middle of the problem
• –Vendors are on stop and the largest customer has started asking questions
• –A wind-down of a division, a subsidiary or the company has become the realistic case

What you get

• –A 13-week cash forecast the board and the lenders both accept, maintained weekly
• –A ranked list of operational levers with the cash effect and the date of each
• –Interim leadership in the CEO, CFO or COO seat where the situation requires it
• –Stakeholder management: lenders, creditors, key customers, the board, the auditor
• –Where necessary, an orderly wind-down plan with the sequence and the obligations set out

Engagement shape. An interim seat, or a project with a weekly cadence. Typically 8 to 26 weeks.

Engage us when

• –The nominating committee needs an independent director with restructuring, capital markets or compliance experience
• –The board is overseeing a crisis and does not know which management reports to trust
• –The audit committee has been told something by the auditor that it does not fully understand
• –A CEO transition is coming and there is no succession plan the board would put in writing
• –Board and committee processes need rebuilding before a raise, a listing or a diligence exercise

What you get

• –Independent director service, including audit, compensation and special committee work
• –A board effectiveness review with specific changes, not a survey
• –Management oversight in crisis: what to ask for, how often, and what a bad answer looks like
• –Succession planning that names the trigger, the interim arrangement and the search
• –Committee charters, calendars and materials that would satisfy an exchange or an investor

Engagement shape. A board seat, a committee appointment, or an advisory retainer to the board.

Engage us when

• –A raise or a refinancing has to happen within two quarters and the terms on offer are poor
• –The company is considering a listing, an uplisting or a reverse merger and does not know what readiness requires
• –Investor relations has become a risk: the story, the disclosure and the numbers no longer agree
• –A transaction is in process and management has no one on its side who has done one
• –Lenders have asked for a plan and management does not know what a credible one contains

What you get

• –Banker and lender selection run as a process: the shortlist, the pitch, the terms compared
• –A financing plan with the sequence, the timing and the fallback
• –Going-public readiness: reporting, controls, governance and disclosure assessed against the exchange's requirements
• –Investor materials and disclosure that say the same thing as the numbers
• –Transaction support from term sheet to close, on management's side of the table

Engagement shape. A project through close, or an advisory retainer through a financing cycle.

Engage us when

• –A regulator, an exchange or the auditor has asked a question and the first answer was not clean
• –A material weakness has been identified, or is about to be, and the remediation plan is a paragraph
• –Public-company reporting is late, restated, or dependent on one person
• –Policies exist on paper and nowhere else
• –Diligence for a transaction or a raise will look at controls, and the company knows what it will find

What you get

• –An inquiry response prepared with counsel, complete and no longer than it needs to be
• –A remediation program with owners, dates and evidence, tracked to closure
• –Internal controls designed for the size of the company and documented so they survive turnover
• –Reporting readiness: the close, the disclosure controls and the certification process
• –Policy and disclosure infrastructure a new CFO could inherit without a briefing

Engagement shape. A project with a defined close, or an advisory retainer through a remediation period.