Turnaround and value creation

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Seeing signs that your business is facing some challenges? Find the clarity, stability, and control you need to chart a new direction. With our experience and expertise, dramatic change is more of an opportunity and less of a drama.

Our Turnaround team offers fast, expert support to enhance liquidity, refine operations, and bolster financial performance. We assist in prioritising actions and establishing a stable foundation for transformation. Our service-led solutions address complex challenges, with turnaround specialists providing hands-on support to corporates and PE sponsors. We tailor solutions to individual circumstances, reviewing and realigning business strategy, improving financial and operational performance, managing liquidity, assessing capital structures, and engaging with key stakeholders.

Andy Burgess

Partner

KPMG in the UK

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Challenges we can help with include:

Financial, operational or asset underperformance
Imminent liquidity event
Over indebtedness and misaligned capital structures
Difficult sector or market

New or increased competitive threat
Rapid operational environment change
Existential threat
Transaction preparedness

No matter what stage of company life cycle your business is in, seeking an external perspective can lead to a quicker resolution. Act promptly to maximize available options and preserve the most value before the business reaches insolvency or financial distress.

Your pillars to success

Clarity

To move into turnaround mode at speed, first you need to turnaround your clarity. Getting a crystal-clear picture is the starting point for fully understanding your financial position. Clarity also gives you a fighting chance of gaining a deeper understanding of the challenges, threats, and opportunities your business faces. And it’s the foundation to tailor a turnaround strategy that tackles your unique situation.

Stability

Once you have clarity on your situation, you can start to turnaround your stability. Where uncertainty has thrown your business off course, this is about moving to solid ground and away from plans that have proven unworkable.

KPMG helps you leave no stone unturned when it comes to uncovering hidden risks and untapped value on the path to stability.

Control

Now you have the stability, it’s time to take control. That might mean some tough decisions in steering your business away from trouble. To help you turn the corner and not into a crisis, we can help you make the right calls from streamlining processes to running your operations smarter. Giving you the tools to regain the control you thought you’d lost and reach goals you knew you could achieve.

Direction

Once you’ve moved from clarity to stability and control, you need to chart a course and know where your business is going next. This is vital to turning the page on the past and starting the next chapter of your turnaround story.

KPMG is here to support you at every turn – from turnaround strategy to successful execution.

Are you asking yourself these questions?

Are we or our customers experiencing increasing pressures in our trading environment? Does our performance translate to profitability or do we need to consider taking urgent action?
Do we have good enough visibility on our trading and cash forecasts? Are we confident that the quality of our forecasting is providing us with information to assess our funding needs?
Does our available liquidity support our current financial position and meet our growth requirements? Is our liquidity allocated correctly to serve our priority business needs? Do we understand and manage our working capital cycle effectively?
Does our balance sheet and capital structure support our current or future operating model? Are we leveraged appropriately and can meet the terms and covenants of our facilities? Are we prepared for any impending debt maturity events and should we be considering refinancing and or new money options?
Is our operating model suitable for our current trading environment or do we need to adjust? Are we experiencing disruption in our supply chain and are we confident in our suppliers?
Are trading pressures and business performance creating concerns for our stakeholders?