Restructuring

BDO Consulting's Restructuring practice provides financial advisory, business restructuring and transaction support services to corporations, lending institutions, hedge funds and law firms. Our professionals assist a wide range of clients, including bondholders, unsecured creditors, debtors, stockholders and investors with matters involving bankruptcy/out-of-court workouts, litigation, lender and M&A due diligence transactional support, profit improvement and turnaround services.

Our team of highly skilled professionals draw upon their backgrounds as former operating executives, in addition to their credentials as certified public accountants, certified turnaround professionals, certified insolvency and restructuring advisers, certified fraud examiners, financial analysts, statisticians and criminal investigators. In addition, we provide corporate finance and business valuation services in conjunction with Trenwith Group, LLP, an independent affiliate of BDO Seidman.

Our business restructuring services include:

  • Business Restructuring and Workouts

    Our professionals are experienced in financial advisory, business restructuring, bankruptcy services, litigation services, valuation, corporate finance sourcing, profit improvement and tax structuring. Our business restructuring services include:

    • Evaluating viability of operations
    • Identifying and analyzing assumptions, business plan forecasts and projections
    • Assessing feasibility of business plans
    • Preparing liquidation analysis
    • Analyzing reorganization plans and alternatives
    • Completing investigative searches and reports
    • Assisting in development of exit strategies
    • Managing cash and working capital
    • Modeling cash flow
    • Assisting with debt restructuring
    • Negotiating with creditors

  • Due Diligence/Transaction Support

    We provide financial and operational due diligence services to assist buyers, investors or lenders in assessing a target organization's business transactions. Our professionals also perform due diligence for lenders on asset-based loans, quality of earnings analyses and cash flow analyses. We investigate events and conditions that may affect an organization, and help identify “soft spots” and potential issues that may impact deal negotiations (e.g., deal structure, terms of purchase agreement). We also focus on the early identification of hidden problems that could be "deal breakers" as well as pinpointing underperforming assets or areas where strategic/operational improvement could increase profitability.

  • Profit Improvement/Post Acquisition Integration

    Our professionals assist organizations in creating a comprehensive financial model and business plan, by working closely with management to develop a detailed understanding of the organization’s operations and overall financial situation. Our services include:

    • Providing preliminary high level/cost efficient assessments
    • Providing organizational redesign leading to headcount reductions
    • Analyzing cash flow/profit projections incorporating savings
    • Conduct process redesign and work flow improvements
    • Analyzing overhead and infrastructure cost savings
    • Reviewing improved gross margins
    • Reviewing implementation management

  • Litigation

    Our Litigation support practice provides services to counsel for plaintiffs and defendants in a variety of areas, including consulting with clients and counsel on all phases of litigation from discovery through trial, providing oral and written testimony as opinion and fact witnesses, conducting interviews and fraud investigations as well as serving as independent arbitrators. Our professionals have experience providing valuable insights and credible testimony in litigation, alternative dispute resolution and investigations. Our services include:

    • Determining insolvency-related issues
    • Analyzing avoidance issues
    • Reviewing insider transactions
    • Evaluating substantive consolidation
    • Performing collateral valuations for equity purposes
    • Evaluating mismanagement and fraud
    • Investigating D&O liability

For more information about BDO Consulting's Restructuring practice, please contact us.