Business crisis and Restructuring
04 — Areas of expertise
When you act matters more than which instrument you choose.
Business difficulty appears long before it becomes visible to banks and suppliers. The signals are there — recurring cash tension, lengthening collection times, margins thinning without an evident reason — but they are read as isolated episodes.
Those who address the problem while they still have alternatives end up in a different position from those who address it once the alternatives are gone. That is the most significant difference I have observed, more than any subsequent technical choice.
Where I work
- Early identification of distress signals and assessment of their seriousness
- Analysis of debt sustainability and going concern
- Building restructuring plans and testing whether they hold
- Turnaround procedures
- Access to crisis and insolvency regulation instruments under Italian law
- Relationships with creditors and with banks
How I work
In these situations the first thing needed is a truthful picture, even when it is unpleasant. Building it together with the entrepreneur is half the work; the other half is establishing what can still be done, and within what time.