KPMG's Restructuring Services helps companies facing financial stress through advisory services. They work with management, lenders, and other stakeholders to develop restructuring options addressing cash flow, profits, and balance sheet issues. Their services include strategic reviews, business restructuring planning, performance improvement, lender assistance, and financing options to stabilize the business and enhance profitability. KPMG aims to provide a flexible, global, and experienced approach drawing on audit, tax, and advisory skills.

1. Restructuring Services
advisory
When it is no longer How we can help
KPMG’s Restructuring Services
‘business as usual’, practice helps management solve
stressed companies must problems that can threaten a
company’s value. We work alongside
act quickly and decisively management, lenders and other
After a decade-and-a-half of economic stakeholders to develop restructuring
growth and favourable financial options to deal with critical issues
conditions, many businesses are ill- concerning cash flow, profit and loss
prepared for the arrival of more testing and the balance sheet.
times. Rising inflation, higher interest Engaged at the early identification of
rates, credit restrictions and softening performance issues, our services can
sales are stressing businesses in also assist with the achievement of
unaccustomed ways, confronting performance targets, to prevent the
decision makers with difficult and on-set of stress.
unfamiliar choices.
Our work involves assisting
CEOs, finance professionals and management to stabilise the
lenders need to read the signs of business, maintain control, reorganise
financial stress and operational borrowings, rebuild performance
underperformance and take prompt and enhance profitability, improve
and effective action. competitiveness and build a stable
Early intervention is essential if platform for sustainable growth. Our
underperforming businesses are restructuring professionals draw on a
to avoid severe damage to their portfolio of financial, operational and
operations and reputations. Prevention management services experience.
involves establishing the right priorities strategic business reviews:
for preserving and enhancing value and establishing a business’s current
acting quickly. position, benchmarking its
Existing management can be too performance and developing strategies
close to the business and be resource for improvement.
constrained. External advisers can Business restructuring/planning:
introduce credibility, objectivity and developing and executing robust
a fresh perspective to the decision- business plans, building a platform for
making processes. It is here where sustainable growth.
KPMG can help.
Performance improvement:
benchmarking performance to improve
profitability, rebuild value and enhance
competitiveness.
Lender assistance: helping to
maximise value to protect lenders’
exposures without destroying
the business.
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stakeholder management and
negotiation: strengthening stakeholder
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KPMG’s Restructuring Services practice
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confidence in the business and its delivers core capabilities and qualities
For further information about
management. to support our clients in obtaining
the services offered by KPMG’s
successful outcomes. Our focus is
Financing: assessing capital structures Restructuring practice, please
on assisting management to improve
and reviewing debt and equity options, contact one of our offices:
performance and manage through
domestically and internationally.
situations of stress without moving
Adelaide
refinancing: managing and nurturing into formal insolvency environments.
+61 8 8236 3111
lender relationships to facilitate
Flexibility: a multidisciplinary approach
refinancing. Brisbane
that tailors our services and resources
Cash and working capital to match individual client needs. +61 7 3233 3111
management: providing practical,
Global reach: an industry focused, Canberra
hands-on advice on all aspects of
multi-disciplinary approach utilising +61 2 6248 1111
working capital management.
KPMG’s extensive national and global
Cost reduction: targeted initiatives audit, tax and advisory skills. Melbourne
to identify areas of opportunity for +61 3 9288 5555
Experience: seasoned professionals
cost reduction coupled with proven
with experience across a range of
methodologies to achieve short, Perth
industries who hit the ground running.
medium and longer term outcomes. +61 8 9263 7171
Knowledgeable: global knowledge
divestments: developing divestment Sydney
and intelligence-sharing capabilities
strategies and executing them. +61 2 9335 7000
allied to our people’s local insights and
understanding.
Transparency: understandable fees
and costs and advice that is clear,
concise and actionable.
objectivity: objective advice untainted
by conflicts of interest or principal
positions.
© 2008 KPMG, an Australian partnership
and a member firm of the KPMG network
of independent member firms affiliated with
KPMG International, a Swiss cooperative.
All rights reserved.
KPMG and the KPMG logo are registered
trademarks of KPMG International.
Liability limited by a scheme approved under
Professional Standards Legislation.
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