Corporate Finance Services
Do you need a CFO?
Do you need an Interim CFO, or would your CFO like another pair of hands? Whether you are looking to enhance your financial and information systems, looking to raise capital, planning for an IPO or another transformational transaction, or you need to restructure: we've got you covered.
Preparing for and executing transformational transactions
We have a wealth of experience working with ambitious growth companies to prepare for and execute transformational transactions, including IPOs, equity capital markets transactions, M&A, restructuring or business integration and change management.
Our clients
We have specialised in the energy, oil & gas and infrastructure sectors for most of the last 25 years, but our expertise is transferable.
Preparing for and executing transformational transactions
IPO
Restructuring
Restructuring
Do you want to get "IPO ready"? We have extensive experience over 30 years of preparing companies for IPO on the LSE and AIM and project managing the IPO process, co-ordinating the myriad of your advisors: sponsors, lawyers, brokers, reporting accountants, financial and PR advisors.
Restructuring
Restructuring
Restructuring
Unfortunately, whether it be due to macro shocks or micro events, "it" sometimes happens and the balance sheet needs to be sorted. We have experience on both the lender and borrower sides of undertaking complex debt restructurings in the "zone of insolvency" or through formal insolvency proceedings in both the UK and the US.
Acquisitions
Restructuring
Business integration
We have worked with our clients and their other advisors to diligence and complete nearly US$1 billion of cross border corporate acquisitions, including hostile takeovers, reverse takeovers and management buy-outs.
Business integration
Equity capital markets
Business integration
Completing an acquisition is just the start of the journey: effective business integration will determine whether the anticipated added value is realised. We have a track record of successfully integrating acquired businesses' cultures and systems to realise that value.
Change management
Equity capital markets
Equity capital markets
Growing pains need to be managed and often this requires significant organisational change: but people don't like change. We have experience working with our clients as they evolve and grow, implementing both formal and "soft" change management programmes.
Equity capital markets
Equity capital markets
Equity capital markets
We have worked with our clients to raise over US$1 billion of equity capital from both private equity and in the public markets: preparing investor presentations, business plans, financial models, datarooms, prospectuses, listing particulars, Admission documents and information memoranda.
Company Secretarial Services
Do you need a Company Secretary?
Every company needs a Company Secretary, but it isn't necessarily a full time role and it often lands on the CFO's desk - as if you didn't have enough to do! So, why not outsource it?
We can provide a bespoke and independent service to enhance your boardroom and its proceedings.
We have over 20 years of experience providing full company secretarial services to listed and private equity backed companies
Working closely with the Chair of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer and the other directors, we provide a full company secretarial service and help companies establish and maintain best practice corporate governance policies and systems.
Some of the things we do:
- Establish and maintain board procedures
- Prepare and update Terms of Reference and Schedule of Matters Reserved for the Board
- Prepare Board and Board Committee papers and minutes
- Ensure compliance with legal requirements including the Companies Act, Listing Rules, AIM Rules or Shareholder Agreements
- Annual Report preparation and support
- Risk Management evaluation and reporting
Accounting Services
Do you need an Accountant?
We provide accounting and business advisory services predominately to owner managed businesses. If you require someone part-time to provide "plain vanilla" accounting services as well as being able to step up to a finance director role when required, we've got you covered.
We have over 20 years of experience providing accounting services to SMEs
We have provided services to companies in the hospitality, interior design, property development, construction, energy and bio-tech sectors. Our servives span the spectrum of roles: from bookkeeper to Financial Controller and Finance Director; from start-up to functional transformation, depending on what you need.
Some of the things we do:
- Establish accounting systems
- Maintain accounting records
- Prepare budgest, management accounts and financial statements
- Cashflow and treasury management
- Payroll services
- Tax and VAT returns