Management consultancy
We are trusted advisers who provide supportive and constructive challenge. Our management consulting activities vary between clients and often depend upon the maturity of a client's underlying business.
Founders may instruct us to advise upon the relative merits and drawbacks of different types of business structure and available types of funding options. We bring focus and pragmatism to discussions between founders and potential investors.
We are regularly consulted upon how best to bring new ideas, products or services to market or to new territories. This might involve financial considerations, legal and compliance aspects, risk management and frequently involves negotiations with counterparties including joint venture partners, agents and distributors.
For many clients, staff will be their most valuable asset. We support our clients in devising management incentive arrangements arrangements that are intended to retain and recruit key staff.
We are expert in supporting businesses at key moments in their lifecycle, regularly advising clients on how to make a business investment ready or to prepare it for a sale and provide a cost effective solution to sellers considering off market transactions, where a full sales process may not be required.
Clients often have a long association with their business and some degree of emotional attachment is commonplace. We understand some of these softer elements of business ownership and management, but can bring some clarity to planning and decision making through independent scrutiny at critical times. We are especially adept in the preparation and execution of succession planning strategies.
We are also on hand when matters do not go according to plan. We guide management teams through the complexities of distressed situations and support owners and managers in conflict resolution, wherever possible avoiding recourse to litigation.
We have experience of communication strategies and media management in the corporate context, particularly in challenging circumstances. We deal with local and national print and broadcast media, having undertaken interviews in most radio and television formats, but have less experience of social media.
We regularly work with other professional intermediaries including accountants, lenders, wealth managers, tax advisers, lawyers and insolvency practitioners and are well networked in that regard. We recognise situations were a client's interests will be best served by such additional support, but in delivering a cost effective solution and being fiercely proud of our independence, we only make such introductions where appropriate.
We are often asked to support clients in the drafting and negotiation of legal documents to implement strategy. Please see the Legal Services section of our website for further details.