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We help companies drive growth and fast-track value creation by focusing on their capital and transaction strategy right through to execution. Click the icons to find out more.
Enabling fast-track growth and portfolio strategies that help you realise your full potential for a better future
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:
The Capital Agenda
A company’s ability to raise capital quickly and effectively is integral to its growth potential and financial well-being, and this is true in good times and bad. Whatever the motivation for raising capital, companies can access new funds more effectively if they plan ahead. They should know how and where they could access capital, if they need it.
They should focus on:
Fundraising equity and debt: IPO readiness, right issues, private equity, private placement and capital markets
Investors in your organisation want to know why: why this transaction? why at this price? why now? Complicating matters, differing stakeholders increasingly bring differing expectations of investments and returns.
The focus should be on:
Acquisition and alliances
Delivery of synergies and effective integration
Planning and structuring transactions to optimise stakeholder return
Focused due diligence to mitigate risk and drive value
Today’s economic climate is forcing businesses to candidly assess their financial fitness. Companies today must conduct more than just a review of operations – they also need to carry out an objective assessment of their business strategies.
The focus should be on:
Optimising asset portfolio
Delivery of synergies and effective integration
Improving working capital and releasing cash
Optimising capital structure
Optimising tax and corporate structure
Implementing the global Strategy and Transactions brand messaging.
Every business needs to continuously assess the potential impact of evolving market conditions on the performance of its operations and capital base. Even in a recovering market, companies believing themselves in a stable position find their situation can change. To preserve capital companies must continuously scour their strategies, markets and balance sheets to reassess strengths and weaknesses.
They should focus on:
Stress and distress e.g., liquidity issues and turnaround plan
Customer and supplier analysis
Preserving tax assets and minimising costs
Refinancing and restructuring debt, equity and other obligations
Dealing with stakeholder relationships and pressure
