at every stage of your business
– from growth to change
Solutions in crises
We turn black swans into white ones.
Acting early to manage risks, be prepared for unforeseen events, and avoid financial emergencies.
Restructuring and consulting partner for companies, banks/lenders, investors and fund managers.
We are independent. We manage no capital, we have no conflicts of interest, and we have no audit conflicts.
Our strength: three key areas, combined expertise:
Financial structuring/restructuring, real assets, and alternative investment funds
For Corporations
- Financial optimization – reduce costs, clean balance sheet, exit non-core underperforming assets, ensure liquidity, optimize working capital, improve profitability
- Recapitalisation – find investors, raise capital, obtain refinancing, accelerated M&A, debt for equity swap
- Amending existing finance terms – renegotiate, covenant-reset, waivers
- Stakeholder management – lead negotiations, communicate and coordinate with parties involved
- Originate, structure and close complex deals
For Banks
We understand the expectations of lenders and can act quickly, efficiently, and reliably
- Independent business review and restructuring plan
- Validating business plans from lender’s perspective
- Working out the best strategy to maximize recoveries
- Preparing documents and information underlying credit decisions (as is analysis, scenario analysis, calculating free cash flows, optimizing debt service
- Support in implementation – amendments, covenant resets, refinancing
- Monitoring (liquidity, implementation, projects)
For Institutional investors:
Based on profound experience in alternative funds, we represent investors’ interests:
- analysis of the fund/portfolio,
- recommending solutions,
- partaking at investors’ calls,
- communication and coordination with fund managers and other stakeholders,
targeted at limiting losses/maximizing repayments from investments in alternative funds.
The solutions include fund restructuring, but also secondary sales via Lagrange proprietary secondary platform.
For Fund managers, AIFMs, KVGs
- analysis of the fund,
- recommending restructuring solutions for the fund and underlying assets/projects,
- stakeholder management (investors, senior creditors, legal advisors, financial supervision),
Solutions include GP-led secondary transactions via Lagrange proprietary secondary platform.
Objective: to preserve value and optimize performance and returns, to avoid fire sales, to avoid redemption run and liquidation.
Our Approach
Having seen firsthand many challenges faced by businesses, we use this knowledge to help organizations and stakeholders anticipate, manage, and mitigate risks, as well as act early, when adverse situations occur.
We combine deep finance and restructuring expertise with a strong understanding of legal issues and proven negotiation skills to guide companies through complex restructuring.
We prepare for you viable and practical solutions with the highest chances to be accepted by all the parties involved/stakeholders.
“Other sell individual tools that require clients to solve the problems on their own. We provide a complete solution that delivers results – and quickly.”
Why an independent financial / restructuring expert
A new mindset within the company:
- Experienced restructuring experts with a fresh, external perspective who understand the expectations of senior creditors and can act quickly, efficiently, and reliably
- Tangible solutions without unnecessary loss of time; quick action secures liquidity and assets
- Management can focus on core business