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Business Advisory

Business planning and investment appraisal

  • Development and analysis of business plans
  • Identifying key stress scenarios
  • Ratio analysis 
  • Communicating of creditworthiness of strategic plans to banks, rating agencies and investors
  • Option appraisal for specific investment proposals
Financing options and negotiating funding terms

  • Modelling financing options (including debt and equity mix)
  • Identification of market pricing

  • Assessment of off-balance sheet financing arrangements and contingent risk 
  • Development of funding prospectuses and negotiation of funding terms.





Merger and acquisition analysis

  • Impact analysis on business plan
  • Assessment of change to credit standing and cost of borrowing
  • Identification of credit strengths and weaknesses of a target organisation
  • Assessing strategic benefits of integration.

 

 

Risk Analysis

Credit reports

  • Writing of independent credit reports
  • Indication of likely credit rating outcomes
  • Bespoke service tailored to specific requirements


Management of credit rating process

  • Preparation of materials for presentation to ratings agencies
  • Review of ratings outcomes
  • Interpretation of changes to rating criteria
  • Advice on maintaining relationships with agencies and ways of improving ratings
  • Communication of ratings outcomes and credit information to the investor market



Support to bond issuers and investors

  • Assistance with documentation
  • Improving risk transparency between investors and issuers
  • Identifying individual investor requirements and preparation of materials for investor presentations
  • Providing investment perfomance/monitoring reports to investors
 

Economic Research

Macro-economic analysis

  • Analysis of different macroeconomic scenarios, including changes to interest rate and inflation projections
  • Assessing the probability of particular economic risks crystalising and the likely impact on business operations
  • Strategies for mitigating adverse economic conditions



Micro-economic analysis


  • Assessing the impact of changes to local economic data on investment decisions
  • Interpretation of socio-economic data supporting demand forecasts and pricing assumptions
  • Mapping local economic data



Cash flow and valuation models


  • Review of existing cash flow models and valuation models, and building new models
  • Assessment of benchmark values, cash flow stress scenarios, interest rate and inflation assumptions, market considerations, and value over time
  • Consideration of quantitative measures such as default and recovery alongside qualitative factors relevant to particular sectors