CRISIS MANAGEMENT
In the face of extremely complex, unpredictable and constantly changing business risks,
R&A works to preserve its client’s corporate image, commercial viability, and other key
business aspects.
R&A devise and implement policies, procedures and strategies that are designed to
minimize the impact of a crisis. R&A helps build strong and smart organizations that are
capable and resilient enough to recover gracefully from a crisis. R&A guides its clients in developing emergency/crisis plans, establishing systems for ensuring business continuity and carrying out quantifiable risk and vulnerability assessments.
The services offered are as follows:-
Business Recovery Services
R&A is instrumental in assisting its clients in their business recovery efforts. R&A
provides services to overcome distress of financial difficulty, excessive debt or poor
liquidity. In times of crisis, R&A’s experts can be deployed to provide strategic counsel
and tactical response.
Independent Business Reviews
When a company is underperforming, is in distress or crisis, R&A undertakes a tailored,
objective assessment of the situation and resources. R&A’s rapid and rigorous review
process scrutinizes financial performance, operating dynamics, asset deployment and
management issues. On the basis of its assessment, R&A develops several alternative
strategies and then after weighing the options decide on the most appropriate
approach.
RESTRUCTURING
R&A’s restructuring practice can help solve complex problems that may pose a risk to
the company’s value. Working alongside lenders, stakeholders and all levels of
management, its professionals plan and deliver restructuring actions that provide real
improvements to the cash flow.
R&A’s Restructuring professionals provide an opportunity for underperforming
businesses to stabilize and implement a process of strategic, operational and financial
change. The aim is to turnaround the performance of a business and to help generate
outstanding and lasting value for the stakeholders.
R&A has in-depth experience across a range of sectors and geographies and an
understanding of the challenges involved in delivering complex, cross border
restructurings and insolvencies. Some of the related services that R&A provides are as
follows:-
- Operational Restructuring
- Financial Restructuring
- Debtor or creditor driven formal restructurings
- Cash and Working Capital Management
- Lender Advisory
- Insurance Solutions
- Exit planning and implementation
- Solvent reconstructions and liquidations
Business Assessments
R&A has broad capabilities for business assessment, fact-based understanding of
industry value chains and the forces that drive them, strategic settings, competitive
advantage and positioning, and business models.
Most of its strategic assessments begin with a business assessment to identify the
critical issues faced by its clients and to understand their current competitive
environments. This offers a starting place from which to assess future sectors,
industries, players and competitors.
Financial Distress
Many businesses face tremendous financial difficulties. R&A recognizes the signs of such
distress and provide solutions to all the obstacles.
R&A has highly experienced professionals who will provide remedies to all types of
financial distress, which includes bankruptcy, lender management, managerial
preference, financial slack and many other related problems.
DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND ARBITRATION
In today’s world successful businesses don't have the time or resources to get into
litigation. Businesses need effective dispute resolution which is fast, just, simple, quick
and effective. R&A has built a dispute resolution system which is based upon these very
principles. Whenever its clients need an effective dispute resolution, whether via
arbitration or mediation, its consultants provide the best business advice.
R&A's dispute resolution practice group represents clients on an ongoing basis in
intensive litigation from trial to all levels of appeals in all adjudicative and judicial
forums in India. R&A has handled significant Arbitration Proceedings in India. R&A’s
dispute resolution team consists of experts who are adept at being the Arbitrators in
cases of industrial/business disputes.
NPA RESOLUTION UNDER IBC
Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016(the Code), appears to be an effective, timebound
mechanism for dealing with the problem of ever-escalating non-performing
assets (NPAs). The Code seeks to maximise the value of assets and give a boost to
entrepreneurship by creating a conductive financial and regulatory ecosystem to ensure
repayment of long–outstanding debts. The code will go a long way to balance the
interest of all stakeholders and build up a robust economy. However, it brings along a
host of tax, regulatory and commercial concerns:
R&A professionals having the requisite expertise, offer the following services:
- Conducting Financial, Commercial, Tax and Legal due diligence of potential
targets.
- Structuring the mode of acquisition of the target.
- Review the resolution plan from a Tax and Regulatory perspective.
- Post –acquisition integration support.