Recovery & Reorganisation

We supply a range of services to underperforming business and their stakeholders. We focus on identifying and resolving issues affecting profitability, protecting enterprise value and facilitating a full recovery where possible.

Our assignments vary from financially robust companies seeking to acquire underperforming competitors, to distressed businesses requiring an urgent solution.  We have 57 partners and directors, and nearly 400 staff in 16 locations, making us one of the largest dedicated teams in the UK.  We have dedicated sector specialists covering automotive, retail, hospitality and leisure, food and agribusiness, healthcare, and more.

We offer solutions and advice in the following areas:

• creditor advisory services for lenders and other stakeholders, including clearing banks, bondholders, asset-based lenders, hedge funds, distressed debt investors and landlords, to identify and address underperforming issues at an early stage which can lead to full rehabilitation and recovery;
• debtor advisory services to management teams, boards and investors to plan and implement a financial and operational turnaround and recovery plan to restore the company to full health;
• accelerated M&A and distressed investing on both the buy and sell side of transactions involving the acquisition or disposal of assets or businesses when timescales are short; 
• performance improvement;
• strategic performance reviews;
• crisis stabilisation by creating financial stability, assessing cash flow and locating other means of improving short-term liquidity;
• corporate simplification specialists to assist in rationalising or reconstructing corporate structures; corporate insolvency;
• personal insolvency;
• pension scheme advisory services aimed at trustees of defined benefit pensions scheme in deficit and their sponsoring employers.

Within the Grant Thornton International organisation, there are 50 member firms in key business centres authorised to undertake specialist recovery and reorganisation assignments.  Firms share best practice and methodologies to meet the legal, commercial and cultural challenges that cross-border projects present.  Whether you are in Boston, Bucharest or Beijing (and all points in-between), a team can be built to meet your sector and geographic requirements perfectly.

For further details of our services or to discuss your needs, please contact us.