Business Advisory
Strategy & Planning
We assist organizations understand their true value by helping them identify their real strengths and weaknesses in turn choose the right businesses to be in. Developing the right strategy and sources.
We take the time to understand your critical issues in order to serve as an objective advisor to help the promoters and/ or the management analyze, evaluate, and make informed decisions regarding their strategic alternatives.
As a part of strategic consulting and corporate planning services, our team supports, stimulate and challenge our clients’ point of view and enhance their strategic decision making process. We help develop and adopt best management practices, structures and systems to maximize productivity.
Often companies venture into new and sometimes unrelated areas during periods of economic boom and expand but later they struggled to sustain and grow those new businesses. We help our clients to be focused, bring discipline and build/ redefine your corporate vision and strategy.
Our teams analyze the available information and data to derive right interpretation & arrive at the appropriate decisions. We help the business owners identify and build the suitable growth plan through detailed business plan & even assist in implementation of such plans.
Key to gaining a competitive advantage lies in having an in-depth understanding of the target audience, competitors, and the market.
Informed decision making is essential for gaining competitive advantage, understanding of the target audience, competitors, and the market. Business owners and management often need processed market information to enable them to build or amend the future course of their businesses.
Be it about product or service potential, competitor analysis, emerging trends, opportunities or threats in the market, forecasting market dynamics etc. We engage with our customers to understand their market research requirement and thereafter undertake the primary and secondary research based on their requirement. Our market research team is adept in gathering hard-to-find information from primary as well as secondary sources, such as social media sites, business directories, forums, online portals, websites, etc.
We provide you with processed industry insights and forecasts, enabling the decision-making process and contributing to successful marketing campaigns.
IT Advisory
Indian companies, in particular – the MSMEs in manufacturing and/or non-technology companies operating in the old economy business models, often struggle about their requirement(s) and operations viz. a viz. Information Technology (IT).
In such companies adoption of Information technology often lags behind due to lack of in-house C-level expertise. We come handy to the owners and top management of such companies and provide the much-needed IT Advisory in building and/ or upgrading the IT strategy & roadmap of the company.
Our virtual CTO service enables the business owners and top management to supervise the IT setup, plan the necessary upgradation and ignore implementation to ensure optimized results and ROI.
For non-technology companies our teams undertake
✔ Requirement Analysis & Recommending the IT Roadmap.
✔ Identification and selection of suitable system and software.
✔ Digital Transformation & Solutioning.
✔ Cyber security planning, solutioning & implementation.
✔ ERP Audits and upgrades.
✔ Vendor identification and supervise implementation
We advise and assist technology & IT companies to plan & pitch for large IT projects with customers in India and across the globe. We provide on demand teams and expert advice for project planning, implementation, management, and supervision of multi specialty, multi technology, and multi lingual projects – from putting together a winning team till the successful execution of the project.
Transactional Advisory
Our approach to transactional advisory is driven by understanding of ground realities. It is not mere target identification or due diligence that determine the success of a transaction, but it is how such activities are together understood and managed as a project.
Based on the requirement of the customer we get involved at every stage of the process followed by post transaction hand holding till the clients are at home with the transaction are over with the handover process. We go beyond advising and also act as your implementation partners.
M&A Advisory
Due Diligence services are attuned to help investors or sellers of a business identify all kinds of risks including financial, business and sector-specific risks associated with a transaction.
We undertake following types of due diligence projects:
Legal Due Diligence
Commercial Due Diligence
financial due diligence
IT & IP due diligence
Valuation
We provide valuation services for tangible and intangible assets. Along with our own in-house team of experts, we are assisted by industry specific experts and partners with proven track record in doing valuations.
Legal & Regulatory Support
As a part of our transactional advisory services we provide necessary support our customers to cope with short term need for legal, accounting and other technical hands for sell side as well as buy side mandates. Our team members together with our partner network provide much needed expertise and experience in supporting and even front ending legal and regulatory support requirements for such transactions.
Turnaround Management
"Extraordinary times require extraordinary measures."
By and large almost all long-lasting business organizations witness ups and downs. Performance during duress and in difficult times is a bigger challenge and at times it requires altogether a new approach.
Many a times, even healthiest of business organizations fail to mold themselves with the changing business environment or while facing special situations like sudden change in business environment, abrupt exit of key person(s), technology obsolesce, force majeure conditions etc. leading to disruption of cash flow or sudden slump in sales or profits.
In such scenario, management and owners of the companies especially need to take dispassionate and drastic measures. On the contrary they often get engrossed on the daily fire fighting while the real issue gets bigger and even unmanageable for them. Our team assists and works with the C- level leadership and owners of the company to build a comprehensive turnaround plan and also helps execute it.
Our teams provides the much needed third person perspective and helps in exhaustive planning, drastic and prompt decision making by bringing on board the necessary expertise and experience. We segregate the short term and midterm priorities and requirements of the organization, while we provide a solution to the immediate firefighting; we also advise and support the management to find a lasting solution required to bring about a business turnaround.
On a broad level following activity are undertaken for bringing about a business turnaround:
• Situation review and planning
• Expense review & management
• HR review
• Root cause analysis
• Cash flow planning
• Decision making support in identifying business areas, segments or territories for exit or entry
• Mentoring the owners and decision-makers to take dispassionate drastic steps
• Assist in organizing short, mid and long-term funding as required for revival
• Finding partners and vendors
• Team building and reorientation
• Vendor negotiation / renegotiation
Business Closure Support
There are times when we come into picture – the damage is already done and turnaround of business is not an option. We specialize in providing end to end services to the business owners to close down the business units or companies by minimizing their financial and legal risks including advisory for approaching the NCLT for winding up the company under Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code or negotiating for an out of court settlement.
Financial Advisory
Financial planning and fund raising are inherent part of any business. Our team of experts provides the necessary financial decision making support and advice to our clients. Every customer has unique need and requirements for financial advisory and our offerings are custom created for each client. Some of the broad level offerings under financial advisory services include :
• Debt syndication
• Debt restructuring & refinancing
• One time settlement (OTS)
• Investment Management & Advisory
• Working Capital Financing
• Wealth Management
