Industry Experience

Bottling equipmentAgriculture
            Beef Production

Construction

Energy
            Exploration & Production
                        Oil & Gas Drilling
                        Oil Well Services
                        Petrochemical Refining

General Manufacturing, including:
            Pharmaceuticals
            Fine Chemicals
            Architectural Metals
            Metal Roofing
            Heavy Equipment
            Oil & Gas Production Rigs and Allied Equipment
 
Healthcare
            Home Healthcare Staffing
            Medical Services, including de novo center planning & construction
            Healthcare Franchising
 
Hospitality
            Resort & Spa Management

General Manufacturing, including
            Pharmaceuticals
            Fine Chemicals
            Architectural Metals
            Metal Roofing
            Heavy Equipment
            Oil & Gas Production Rigs and Allied Equipment

Real Estate
            Commercial
            Residential
    
Professional Services
            Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures
            Investigation & Asset Recovery
            Crisis Management
            Litigation Support
            Domestic and international Litigation/Asset recovery 

Wholesale/Retail
            Mass Market Cosmetics
            Home Furnishings
            Oil Products

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It’s the operations stupid

Our approach is holistic: To rapidly understand, manage, and fix the operations – work ourselves out of a job as expediently as possible – leave with the business in better condition than when we arrived – and don’t cripple the enterprise with fees.

Financial analysis tells me where the business has been and where it’s going if its operations are not fixed – irrespective of the business product or service. We believe that financial analysis should never be the raison d etre for any engagement. Hours spent preparing reams of financial data and forecasts, no matter how astute, are likely not going to solve what got the core business into trouble in the first place.

In our view, with the exception of radical balance sheet debt restructuring, fixing the financials never fixes the business.

The point is: bad operations, including lackluster teamwork, an unsustainable culture, and poor quality, whether in product or service, have financial ramifications not vice versa. And in our experience, a shocking and profound result occurs when you fix the core business operations - the financial picture improves!

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