High-Level Advisory
Strategic, board-level advice for directors navigating financial distress. We help you understand your options, fulfil your duties, and make the right decisions under pressure.
When You Need Clarity
Financial distress creates pressure and uncertainty. Directors face difficult decisions with incomplete information, conflicting advice, and the weight of legal duties that carry personal liability. Our advisory service cuts through the noise.
We provide clear-headed, strategic advice that helps directors understand exactly where they stand, what options are available, and what each path means for the business, its creditors, and its people.
Advisory Services
Financial Distress Diagnostic
A comprehensive assessment of your financial position including cash flow, balance sheet, creditor exposure, and operational viability. We tell you where you stand and what it means.
Options Analysis
A structured evaluation of every available option, from restructuring and refinancing to sale and managed exit. Each option is assessed on viability, cost, timeline, and risk.
Cash Flow Forecasting
Detailed 13-week and 12-month cash flow forecasts that model different scenarios and identify the critical inflection points for your business.
Stakeholder Strategy
Managing communication with creditors, banks, HMRC, suppliers, and employees. We help you control the narrative and maintain confidence during a difficult period.
Director Duty Guidance
Clear advice on your legal obligations under s.214 (wrongful trading) and s.246ZB (trading during restructuring). We ensure you're protected throughout the process.
Contingency Planning
If the primary strategy fails, what's the fallback? We ensure you're prepared for every scenario and can act decisively if circumstances change.
Director's Warning Signs
If any of these apply to your business, you should seek advice immediately:
- HMRC arrears or time-to-pay negotiations
- Creditors threatening legal action
- Inability to pay debts as they fall due
- Relying on new work to pay for old
- Directors' loans being called in
- Key suppliers refusing credit
- Retention bonds being called
- Winding-up petition threatened or issued