Advisory & corporate finance
The cash shortfall, the senior hire, the deal that went elsewhere, the spreadsheet nobody else understood, the margin that drifted. Five different functions, one underlying condition.
We caught up with Marina and Adrian to discuss how founders can deal with difficult relationships in the board room with investors. Marina Traversari is a Board Advisor, Link Stone Advisory who has founded, scaled and exited business as senior executive, Chair and Board Advisor and draws from experience at Spherics, Gapsquare, Sage, Oracle and … Continue reading Managing difficult investors in the Board Room
Leading a business in a stable market is management. Leading a business when the market is collapsing and reinventing itself? That is transformation. Many established businesses today are facing their “Netflix Moment”—the need to pivot to digital without killing their core cash flow. In this interview, Richard Spilsbury talks to Robert Price, a veteran CEO … Continue reading The Secrets to Successful Business Pivot Strategies
Build and buy strategies are where a business acquires other businesses, very often to help increase value ahead of an exit. They are not uncommon for private equity or companies trading on a public exchange and can also work for smaller businesses but are less common. Build and buy strategies can be an attractive way … Continue reading Thinking about Build and Buy?
Value creation is an integrated approach to optimising shareholder value. Value creation is based on developing and applying value drivers (sometimes called ‘value builders’) that help articulate commercial development and also support higher transaction values. By not drawing on the experience of best practices successfully applied by other businesses, founders can risk leaving money on … Continue reading Time to focus on value creation
Thinking of securing investment, an exit or MBO involving private equity? Tom Whittard, partner at Westbridge, gives three tips in an article in Corporate Financier magazine shown below. Contact us if you want to learn more about our advisory and corporate finance experience and support. 1 Deal Readiness Entrepreneurial business owners have a tendency to … Continue reading Seeking investors?
Responding to COVID-19 has meant that most businesses have had to dig deep. While there will be few outright winners from the crisis, most business leaders will know that they will have to adapt. In this article we explain five basic practices that successful businesses will embrace and six growth drivers that businesses can refine … Continue reading Hope is not a plan: build resilience quickly and reignite growth