Case Studies
Risk & Restructuring
Thirteen weeks of liquidity, and a business worth saving.
A contractor entered a covenant breach with thirteen weeks of visible liquidity and four loss-making contracts absorbing the cash generated by the rest of the book.
- Service
- Risk & Restructuring
- Sector
- Construction
- Engagement
- 11 months
The Problem
What stood in the way.
- No reliable short-term cash forecast existed at contract level.
- Four contracts were consuming the margin produced by thirty.
- Lender confidence had eroded through successive missed forecasts.
Our Approach
How we worked.
- 01
Stood up a contract-level thirteen-week cash forecast within ten days.
- 02
Triaged the contract book and negotiated exits or variations on the loss-makers.
- 03
Ran a single transparent lender process with one set of numbers.
Outcomes
What the work produced.
- 13 → 40 wks
- liquidity runway
- 4
- loss contracts resolved
- 100%
- of lenders acceded
The business stabilised without insolvency proceedings, refinanced on amended terms and returned to positive operating cash within three quarters.
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