Financing

SKIDLAB’s Finance and Restructuring practice, a trusted partner to companies, boards of directors, investors, lenders and creditors around the world, is focused on delivering restructuring and business transformation solutions. Committed to our clients’ success, our professionals address the full spectrum of financial, operational and transactional risks and opportunities. Among our core strengths is providing expertise in guiding companies through the value creation lifecycle. Our targeted offerings include restructuring, insolvency, litigation support, interim management, capital market advisory, post- acquisition integration, valuation, tax advisory as well as financial management and performance improvement solutions.

Our clients demand our industry expertise, which includes energy, healthcare, real estate, retail and consumer products, and telecom, media and technology. SKIDLAB’s Structured Finance group consists of seasoned deal execution professionals with commercial and residential investment banking, monoline insurance and accounting backgrounds. They focus on all aspects of structured finance and securitization-related matters, covering ABS, CLO, RMBS, TruPS, CMBS, CDO, and esoteric ABS. These individuals have extensive knowledge and experience in credit assessment, modeling, structuring, diligence, negotiation, and ultimate execution of a wide range of structured finance products.

TRANSACTION SERVICES

The transaction advisory experts at SKIDLAB — senior partners and dedicated teams with specific industry expertise — offer a forward-looking perspective and track record of success across the entire transaction life cycle. Whether representing buyers, sellers or lenders, we offer comprehensive due diligence advice and hands-on support in evaluating opportunities across the risk/return spectrum. As part of a global consulting firm known for success in high-profile, high-stakes transactions, we help our clients maximize value and minimize risk.

Lender Advisory Services professionals are an experienced, specialized team within our Corporate Finance & Restructuring practice that focuses on all aspects of the lending decision-making process. Our clients include financial institutions, investment banks, hedge funds, commercial finance companies and other lenders who provide credit and credit support to a wide array of domestic and foreign-based companies operating across industries.

Recent economic and financial volatility have challenged corporate finance organizations to provide their companies with more and better services while at the same time reducing the costs of the finance function. In such circumstances, expert advice from an experienced finance consulting firm can be of great value to finance executives. Skidlab Group provides major companies around the financial with a range of finance consulting services that help drive greater efficiency and effectiveness throughout the finance function.

Skidlab Group is a leading global strategy and operations consulting firm with particular expertise in benchmarking, best practices implementation, and business transformation, across all back-office functions including finance, human resources, procurement, and IT. We offer an on-demand executive advisory program specifically tailored toward finance leaders, as well as hands-on finance consulting services in support of critical challenges such as:

  • Finance strategy. The Skidlab Group’s finance consulting can help drive efficiency in routine transactional processes, allowing a shift in focus to building the strategic value of the finance function. The Skidlab Group works with finance executives to steer strategy toward creating a value-driven finance organization.
  • Organizational effectiveness. By applying proven best practices derived from our close work with world-class organizations operating at exceptional levels of efficiency and effectiveness, our finance consulting services maximize the performance of finance processes while reducing their costs.
  • Working capital management. With decades of hands-on experience in cash flow management, our working capital group has helped clients free up billions of dollars of cash, improving their ability to fund new products and markets, pay down debt, or undertake strategic initiatives.
  • Globalized process sourcing. Advising clients on appropriate sourcing solutions is central to our financial consulting services. We can help you identify and prioritize processes to outsource or offshore, select an outsourcing provider or a site for a captive operation, and establish effective governance mechanisms. As a global company with deep experience in outsourcing consulting, Skidlab Group is an ideal partner to help you optimize your process sourcing strategy.
  • Planning and performance management. The need for business performance management has never been greater. As part of our finance consulting services, The Skidlab Group works with finance and controlling executives to ensure that the right metrics are employed and that early indicators are used to identify shifts in key forecasted components.
  • Compliance. Applying best practices, The Skidlab Group can help you simplify your compliance processes and reduce the risk and cost of compliance errors locally and globally.