Small Business
Restructuring & Turnaround
Restructuring And Turnaround Consulting Australia
You’ve worked hard on and in your business. However, circumstances have led to a drop in profit, and you’re not confident you can get things back on track. You’re not alone. In an increasingly disrupted market, many business owners find themselves in this situation. At Corporate Lifeline, we offer tailored company restructuring strategies to streamline operations, boost efficiency, and regain focus, helping you navigate through these challenges with confidence.
We work shoulder-to-shoulder with your company’s management, stakeholders and lenders at every level. Our business restructuring advice delivers results to protect, create and maximise value throughout all stages—contact us to find out how.
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COMMERCIAL RESTRUCTURE STRATEGY SERVICES
We understand that it’s difficult to move forward when you feel neck-deep in business challenges. But it’s crucial to get clarity and make the decisions your business needs to turn its fortune around. Corporate Lifeline’s business restructuring services deliver the life-saving CPR your company needs. Our experienced company restructuring professionals are here to problem-solve and develop results-focused solutions.
Voluntary Administration
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Safe Harbour
If you think you risk insolvency, this could be your work-around strategy.
Small Business Restructure
We help you develop and present a debt restructuring plan to creditors.
Benefits of a Business Restructure
The right business restructuring consultants can identify opportunities and implement strategies leading to:
Why Choose Our
Corporate Restructuring & Turnaround Services
- We have the full support of our partner, Hall Chadwick, listed in the Top 50 Australian Accounting Firms.
- Our turnaround restructuring head office is in Sydney, but we have physical teams in all capital cities.
- We bring empathy to every client undertaking. There is no place for judgement in our work.
- We’re committed to protecting your company’s best interests.
- Our exceptional team includes leading insolvency specialists, accountants and advisers. We offer the best turnaround and restructuring advisory services for your business.
- We have already delivered outstanding turnaround and restructuring services to hundreds nationwide around Australia.
Corporate Lifeline are experts in restructuring your business and finding its value
Corporate RestructuringProcess
Discover the business recovery & turnaround process with Corporate Lifeline.
Restructuring
When loans reach maturity or a business outgrows its existing finance arrangements, it can face cashflow or solvency issues. Inappropriate types of funding can be used, such as credit cards or letting ATO debts grow. Speaking to the existing bank is the first step. If they can’t meet the financing needs, there are many types of business funding and finance alternatives. Determining the proper capital structure, seeking out a bank or financier and finalising the deal generally encompass a restructuring engagement. Getting the capital structure right, means a Director can get on with the best use of their time, running their business
Turnaround
What are the stages of a turnaround?
When dealing with a company facing financial difficulties, we analyse the business to assess whether we can restructure it or turn it around. We look for solutions that preserve value wherever possible. By undertaking a financial and strategic analysis of the company, we can create an action plan that maximises the return on investment and improves business performance.
Initial Assessment
Strategic Plan
If the initial assessment indicates that a turnaround strategy has the potential for success, the next stage is formulating a strategic plan outlining the required specific goals, actions and functions.
The strategic plan must be communicated to and supported by the key stakeholders. Our corporate turnaround specialist team liaises with internal and external partners—management, employees, shareholders, bankers, customers and suppliers—to ensure their backing for the plan.
Recovery Phase
Turnaround Phase
Existing revenue streams must be secured and enhanced, and cost control measures introduced and adhered to.
It may be necessary to substantially restructure the business – to develop further markets, discontinue certain products or make market adjustments to remain competitive.
Importantly during the ‘turnaround’ phase, constant communication with all stakeholders is essential. The business is unlikely to have maintained the same structure as before. All stakeholders need to adapt to the new organisation, and management needs to ensure everyone is aware of and supports the shift. This is perhaps one of the most challenging aspects of the business’s turnaround strategy.
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Ongoing Monitoring
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What is Business Turnaround and Restructuring
When a company experiences financial difficulties, it may consider entering into a corporate restructure or turnaround. Revenue decline, debt, inefficient operations and market or industrial challenges can all contribute to poor financial health. Corporate Lifeline business restructuring strategies explore operational improvements, financial restructuring, organisational changes and strategic realignment to improve health and help the business make a positive turn.
How does a business know if a turnaround is right?
Before any restructuring or turnaround is attempted, critical questions must be explored to determine if this is the right path forward. The first questions to ask are:
- Could this business be viable in future?
- Is it worth the time and cost involved to save it?
- Can it be saved?
- What do the Directors want?
Most simply, a business may engage a professional advisor such as us to assist with an ATO payment arrangement, review finance arrangements, update financial accounts, and implement some cost-control measures.
At the more complex end, a company may employ a dedicated restructuring and turnaround officer to carry out a full range of changes to a business, sell or close various parts of the business and continually improve it over several years until it returns to sustainable profit.
Although it can be difficult to face up to your employees and creditors, you may be surprised at the support you’ll receive from them. No one involved with your business wants to see it fail.
What do restructuring consultants do?
Restructuring consultants such as Corporate Lifeline advise companies in financial distress or experiencing operational challenges. We assess the company’s current situation, identify areas for improvement, and develop strategic plans to restructure the business and deliver improved performance and financial outcomes. Our remit may include financial analysis, operational review, strategic development and planning, stakeholder management and strategic implementation.
A turnaround strategy is not an option for all businesses suffering financial difficulty. In some cases, a formal insolvency appointment may provide the most appropriate solution.
At Corporate Lifeline our specialist Business Recovery and Insolvency team of official Liquidators and registered trustees in Bankruptcy can provide advice and accept appointments in all corporate insolvency matters including:
- Voluntary Administration
- Deed of Company Arrangement
- Liquidation (including provisional liquidation
- Controllership
- Safe Harbour
- Small Business Restructuring
- We can also assist in personal insolvency administrations and advise on appointments under the Bankruptcy Act.
What do restructuring consultants do?
A turnaround strategy is not an option for all businesses suffering financial difficulty. In some cases, a formal insolvency appointment may provide the most appropriate solution.
At Corporate Lifeline our specialist Business Recovery and Insolvency team of official Liquidators and registered trustees in Bankruptcy can provide advice and accept appointments in all corporate insolvency matters including:
- Voluntary Administration
- Deed of Company Arrangement
- Liquidation (including provisional liquidation
- Controllership
- Safe Harbour
- Small Business Restructuring
- We can also assist in personal insolvency administrations and advise on appointments under the Bankruptcy Act.
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