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Services range from hands-on management assignments, CEO, CFO, or Consensual Receiver positions, for example, to more consultative engagements. Services include: performance improvement, turnarounds and reorganizations, and financial advisory. General management and operations, financial management and accounting, due diligence reviews, marketing and sales, organization and leadership, business planning and strategy, and executive guidance and coaching services are available. Services cover individual properties, portfolios, and companies and may inlcude working with distressed mortgages and mortgage portfolios and portfolios of distressed real estate assets.

The scope of work is tailored to fit the needs of the client and may include, among other services:


Turnarounds, Reorganizations, &
Workouts:

  • Assess corporate viability
  • Identify alternative recovery / workout strategies
  • Estimate liquidation cash flow & recovery
  • Prepare 13 week cash flows
  • Address debt to asset value imbalances
  • Manage / control cash
  • Consensual receiver services
  • Lender / borrower / investor negotiations
  • Manage liquidations / business wind downs
  • Evaluate alternative capital structures & restructure
  • Asset and loan sales, refinancings
  • Source transactions
Financial Advisory:
  • Prepare valuations
  • Evaluate alternative financial strategies
  • Restructure balance sheets
  • Source debt & equity & acquirers
  • Manage sale of business or assets
  • Manage refinancings / modifications
  • Manage acquisitions and dispositions
  • Financial planning & analysis
  • Negotiating support
  • Closing support
  • Conduct due diligence reviews

Financial Management & Accounting:

  • CFO services, accounting and control
  • Develope financial strategies
  • Cash management, liquidity generation
  • Manage debtor / creditor relationship
  • Evaluate investment performance
  • Evaluate servicer / manager / advisor performance
  • Contingency planning
  • Mortgage portfolio assessments / valuation
  • Prepare financial analyses and projections
  • Manage acquisitions and dispositions
  • Merger integration planning & execution
  • Closing support
Business Planning & Strategy:
  • Assess the company's position in its industry
  • Identify competitive advantages and disadvantages
  • Review intangible assets: relationships, brands, intellectual property, talent...
  • Identify growth opportunities
  • Identify and evaluate ideas for maximizing value or minimizing exposure
  • SWOT assessments
  • Identify / prioritze options
  • Develop a vision
  • See marketing & sales services
  • Prepare business plans & execute

General Management & Operations:
  • Interim CEO and COO executive management
  • Development management
  • Mortgage portfolio management
  • Asset & property & land management
  • Residentail subdivision assessments & completion
  • Construction management / complete projects
  • Developer negotiations
  • Obtain entitlements
  • Optimize business practices and processes
  • Focus management information systems
  • Balance product / service costs and assets
  • Identify alternative operating methods
  • Optimize operational efficiency
Organization & Leadership:
  • Manage reorganizations
  • Simplify / streamline organizations
  • Manage layoffs / personnel changes
  • Evaluate reporting relationships, staffing, and organizational structure
  • Evaluate Directors and managers
  • Evaluate / change compensation and incentive plans
  • Evaluate / replace vendors
  • Evaluate / implement outsourcing opportunities
  • Develop a vision, clarify the value proposition, generate options
  • Merger planning & integration
Marketing & Sales:
  • Maximize revenue and revenue capture
  • Manage leasing and sales
  • Hire marketing teams, negotiate service contracts
  • Develop business unit and product line strategies
  • Identify growth opportunities - product line extensions, new markets, unserved customer needs...
  • Prioritize alternative opportunities
  • Examine customer value proposition
  • Improve customer service function - develop systems
  • Assess markets and identify alternative approaches
  • Evaluate product pricing and identify product profitability
  • Identify target markets / prepare go to market plans
Executive Guidance & Coaching:
  • Reporting to a Board of Directors
  • Governance
  • Presentations
  • Transactions
  • Expectations & organizatipnal behavior
Other:
  • Evaluate form of organization / tax issues
  • Commercialize internal resources / IT


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