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Managing capital and transactions in a changing world
Need to make better and more-informed decisions about how to strategically manage capital and transactions in a changing world? Let us help.
The Capital Agenda puts your capital needs at the heart of our strategy and focuses on the issues that matter most to you:
To find out more about the services we offer in this area please contact us.
Preserving capital
Every business needs to continuously assess the potential impact of evolving market conditions on the performance of its operations and its capital base. Even in a recovering market, companies who believe they are in a stable position can find their situation can change quite quickly.
The preservation of capital requires companies to continuously reassess their strategies, markets and balance sheets to identify strengths and weaknesses.
The focus should be:
- Stress and distress — e.g., liquidity issues and turnaround plan
- Customer and supplier analysis
- Preserving tax assets and minimizing costs
- Refinancing and restructuring debt, equity and other obligations
- Dealing with stakeholder relationships and pressure
- Dispute resolution
Optimising capital
Today’s economic climate is forcing businesses to candidly assess their financial fitness.
More than a mere review of operations, companies today must conduct objective assessments of the alignment of their business strategies.
The focus should be:
- Optimising asset portfolio
- Delivery of synergies and effective integration
- Improving working capital and releasing cash
- Optimising capital structure
- Optimising tax and corporate structure
Investing capital
Investors in your organisation want to know why: why this transaction, why at this price and why now?
Complicating matters, having numerous different stakeholders bring differing expectations of investments and returns.
The focus should be:
- Acquisition and alliances
- Planning and structuring transactions to optimise stakeholder return
- Focused due diligence to mitigate risk and drive value
- Asset valuations
- Cost- and tax-efficient structures
Raising capital
A company’s ability to raise capital quickly and effectively is integral to its growth potential and financial well-being. This is true in good times and in bad.
Whatever the motivation for raising capital, companies can access new funds more effectively if they have planned ahead. They should know how and where they could access capital, if they need it.
The focus should be:
- Fundraising (equity and debt): IPO readiness, right issues, PE, private placement and capital markets
- Optimising funding structures
- Asset divestment
- Infrastructure projects
- Cost- and tax-efficient structures
Contacts
 | New Zealand Transactions Leader Andrew Taylor Contact | +64 9 308 1069 |
 | Corporate Restructuring Leader Gareth Galloway Contact | +64 9 300 7066 |
 | Infrastructure Advisory Leader Grant Hodges Contact | +64 9 377 4790 |
 | M&A and Transaction Integration Leader Tim Clarkson Contact | +64 9 300 8009 |
 | Valuations and Business Modelling Leader Peter Goss Contact | +64 4 470 0502 |
 | Christchurch Transactions Leader Bruce Gemmell Contact | +64 9 300 7066 |
 | Transaction Tax Leader Richard Williams Contact | +64 9 308 1075 |
 | Transaction Support Leader Anthony Self Contact | +64 9 300 7097 |
 | Transaction Tax Brad Wheeler Contact | +64 9 300 8165 |
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