Transformation & Restructuring
Our Transformation and Restructuring service specializes in turning around troubled companies by identifying core issues, implementing tailored solutions, and empowering leaders to maintain long-term stability. With a hands-on approach and a team of highly skilled consultants, we ensure optimal operational performance and sustainable success across all industries.
Cash Flow Forecasting
Providing critical cash flow analysis and modeling to ensure operational and financial stability, enabling informed decision-making and securing necessary funding.
Cash Flow Analysis: Assess immediate and future cash flow needs and identify critical financial requirements for operations.
Financial Fact-Finding: Quickly gather and present key financial data and highlight operational and financial requirements.
Cash Flow Modeling: Define weekly forecasted cash sources and uses and roll forward critical balance sheet items for comprehensive insights.
Stakeholder Communication: Provide clear explanations of cash flow implications and assist in securing necessary funding from stakeholders.
Chief Restructuring Officer
A Chief Restructuring Officer (CRO) provides crucial oversight and management, enhancing company operations, maximizing profitability, and regaining stakeholder trust, even in non-insolvency scenarios, with Silverman Consulting professionals adeptly fulfilling this role for numerous clients
Operational Oversight: Provide detailed management and oversight of daily operations while ensuring efficient and effective business practices.
Profitability Maximization: Identify opportunities to enhance profitability and implement strategies to optimize financial performance.
Stakeholder Trust Restoration: Regain credibility with lenders, equity holders, and other stakeholders while maintaining transparent communication to build confidence.
Crisis Management and Solutions: Collaborate with senior management to understand and address crises and advise the Board of Directors on the best course of action.
Creditor Management
Creditors and lenders are key stakeholders of any business. Developing and maintaining strong relationships with these important constituents is vital for the long-term viability of a business, especially in restructuring situations. A well-devised restructuring plan exhibits the tools and skills management possesses to fulfill its obligations towards lenders and creditors. A cash flow forecast is often the focal point of a restructuring plan which, in addition to fostering communication with lenders and creditors, serves as an operating tool for management. Successful implementation of any restructuring plan requires effective and timely communication with lenders and creditors to obtain their “buy-in”.
At Silverman Consulting, our professionals have extensive experience in building and communicating robust, fact-based, restructuring plans. We evaluate and prioritize all options available to our clients, including cost reduction initiatives, reorganizations, and recapitalizations. Our greatest strength in creditor management is our expertise in conveying to lenders and creditors how their support during the restructuring process is in their best interest and that of our clients.
Liquidity ManagemenT
In today’s business world of increasing complexity and market uncertainty, companies face a growing number of new and unprecedented challenges. Whether facing these challenges today or in the future, a sound analysis and understanding of your organization’s liquidity needs is vital to its continued success. Often times analyzing past trends and liquidity demands can help better position an organization for the hurdles they face ahead. In addition to an accurate understanding of future performance, an organization should understand and consider the various pathways available to meet its liquidity demands. The proper solution may exist via modification of existing operations, refinancing of current debt/liquidity sources, or in the form of a debt or equity infusion. Given the complexity of options to consider, a firm can benefit greatly from an outside advisor to help them create the proper strategic plan.
Since it’s founding almost 40 years ago, Silverman Consulting has worked with hundreds of clients to assist them in understanding and improving liquidity. Whether helping to provide clarity of an organization’s current needs or preparing reliable projections to uncover potential needs in the future, Silverman Consulting has extensive experience assisting clients in many disciplines. Whether or not your organization currently has an established set of liquidity management tools, Silverman Consulting can provide valuable assistance in developing and refreshing these liquidity strategies in order to improve profitability and withstand cash-related shortages.
Operational Improvement
Whether your Company is comfortably profitable or in dire need of change, Silverman Consulting can be relied upon to quickly assess your business and recommend appropriate changes. We review all layers of the organization, from back-office support functions to the plant floor, in order to identify areas in need of improvement. Given the vast amount of financial resources and human capital dedicated to the production of goods and services, there are many ways we can assist your company. Our experienced team has a deep understanding of operational metrics and procedures as well as the financial acumen to accompany any strategic plan to ensure success. Depending on the industry, product or service, the metrics we address will fluctuate. However, one goal remains clear - immediately improve profitability.
Our team works directly with management to identify synergies, cost reduction initiatives, revenue enhancement opportunities and proper allocation of human capital. Our process begins with fact gathering as we seek to intimately understand your business and processes. Our goal is preserve the culture and identity of your product or service while finding a more cost effective production or implementation solution. Shortly after we know the financial and operational landscape of your company, we work with management to identify solutions that will create operational efficiencies. We aim to create sustainable, systemic changes in your business that will allow you to become more profitable than before.
Profitability Improvement
Silverman Consulting has a deep respect for individuals with an entrepreneurial spirit who have been able to turn their vision into reality and grow a sustainable business. These are the type of people who make our country great. Regardless of whether a company is profitable or under performing, every business owner could stand to make more money.
We understand a company is the sum of all the decisions stakeholders make as they attempt to create a successful enterprise. These decisions include which customers or products to pursue, which machines to buy, how many people to hire, and how much debt to take on. The culmination of all these decisions either puts the company in a great position for sustainable success or leaves areas that need to be improved to ensure viability down the road.
Silverman Consulting develops a strong rapport with the management team to identify those aspects of the business that are operating effectively and which ones need to be refined. If your company is asking questions like the ones below, our services can be helpful to help improve profitability.
Was a customer or a product priced low to land the deal and now it is time to ask for a price increase?
Do you feel like your competitors have better margins and you need to analyze how to reduce material, labor or overhead costs?
Was a decision made to expand into a region or a line of business only to find that the opportunity did not materialize as expected?
To the extent a realignment of the business can enhance profitability, Silverman Consulting is fully committed to making sure all stakeholders win. The Silverman team uses its independence to critically think through the facts with management. Our process allows us to work with those facts to develop a strategy to improve the overall business model and allow the company to enhance profits. In many cases, this allows us to also simplify the business.
Insolvency
Maximizing Value For All Stakeholders
At Silverman Consulting, we know that every insolvency case is challenging for all parties involved. Our team of skilled professionals has over 80 years of experience dealing with the most challenging insolvency issues. Our ultimate goal is to maximize value for each stakeholder. In the past, we have successfully helped companies restructure their business within the confines of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. In Wisconsin, we have assisted the receiver in a financial advisory role under the Chapter 128 statute. Additionally, our experienced team has helped senior lenders, creditors and business owners maximize the value of an estate through an orderly liquidation process. Regardless of the difficult insolvency circumstances your company faces, Silverman Consulting has the best resources available to help everyone involved.
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