Duff & Phelps offers specialized advisory services in asset-based lending (ABL), assisting lenders and borrowers with financial reviews, performance monitoring, and strategic exit planning. Their experienced team provides practical support in debt advisory, capital structure optimization, and valuations across various scenarios. The firm operates globally with a diverse range of clients and expertise in valuation, corporate finance, and restructuring.

1. Asset Based Lending Advisory
Duff & Phelps is a specialist provider of advisory services to the Asset
Based Lending (ABL) industry, supporting lenders and their borrowers with
commercial and timely advice based on our in depth experience of the issues
faced by both parties when structuring, monitoring and exiting ABL facilities.
•• Financial and forecast reviews
•• Modelling and sensitivity analysis
•• Covenant setting and testing
•• Performance and KPI monitoring
•• Working capital improvement
plans
•• Cash flow management
•• Hands-on practical support
and resource
•• Plant and machinery and real
estate valuation service
•• Valuations for fund raising,
insurance placement and
tax/legal restructuring
situations
•• Contract reviews and impact on
accounts receivable and inventory
recovery
•• Understanding and experience of
work out issues (all asset classes)
•• Accelerated M&A, contingency and
exit planning
•• Awareness of ABL-relevant
risks and safeguards in differing
scenarios
•• Execution of strategic exit services
•• Source additional
funding to complement
ABL
•• Identify and support
borrower’s optimum
capital structure
•• Knowledge of senior
debt, mezzanine and trade
finance and equity markets
•• M&A transaction support
and access to international
strategic and trade buyers
Financial
Assessment
Working Capital
Optimisation
Exit
Recoverability
Debt Advisory
Valuation

2. Michael Bills
Director
Restructuring Advisory
+44 (0)7989 343364
michael.bills@duffandphelps.com
Stephen Clancy
Managing Director
Restructuring Advisory
+44 (0)7920 269681
stephen.clancy@duffandphelps.com
David Fleming
Managing Director
Restructuring Advisory
+44 (0)7833 451848
david.fleming@duffandphelps.com
Ken Goldsbrough
Managing Director
Head of Debt Advisory, Europe
+44 (0)7747 762997
ken.goldsbrough@duffandphelps.com
David Grier
Managing Director
Restructuring Advisory
+44 (0)7900 137552
david.grier@duffandphelps.com
Meet Our ABL Advisory Team
Matthew Ingram
Managing Director
Restructuring Advisory
+44 (0)7789 943879
matthew.ingram@duffandphelps.com
John Potts
Director
Restructuring Advisory
+44 (0)7769 941862
john.potts@duffandphelps.com
Paul Smith
Managing Director
Debt Advisory, Restructuring
+44 (0)7789 650507
paul.smith@duffandphelps.com
Michael Weaver
Managing Director
Head of Valuation Advisory, UK
+44 (0)7971 570547
michael.weaver@duffandphelps.com
Benjamin Wiles
Managing Director
Restructuring Advisory
+44 (0)7825 176524
benjamin.wiles@duffandphelps.com
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About Duff & Phelps
Duff & Phelps is the premier global valuation and corporate finance advisor with expertise in complex valuation,
dispute and legal management consulting, M&A, real estate, restructuring, and compliance and regulatory
consulting. The firm’s more than 2,000 employees serve a diverse range of clients from offices around the world.
M&A advisory and capital raising services in the United States are provided by Duff & Phelps Securities, LLC.
Member FINRA/SIPC. Pagemill Partners is a Division of Duff & Phelps Securities, LLC. M&A advisory and
capital raising services in the United Kingdom and Germany are provided by Duff & Phelps Securities Ltd.,
which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.