Financial and Operational Restructuring
Restructurings are often crisis-oriented projects involving radical changes and redesign to corporate balance sheets, corporate structure, business portfolios, capital structure and financing. This is why project tools such as valuations represent a necessary part of a typical restructuring.
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Restructurings vs. Turnarounds
Many restructuring projects (with balance sheet redesign) have simultaneous turnaround characteristics (including P&L/operational redesign), but not all. For example, some companies may have restructuring requirements concentrated to loan portfolios or corporate structure without significant impact on day-to-day operations.Restructurings as a Strategic Change Tool
Restructurings are also on the agenda when a company changes its core strategy and consequently wants to spin-off or divest a company or business unit. This may require a complex re-allocation of assets – or changes in production strategy, suppliers, financing or capital structure – which include many elements of a full restructuring. A de-merger has the same characteristics.The below illustration shows how the effects of recessions drive the second order consequences which typically initiate the need for restructurings: low capacity utilizations, low corporate valuations and unavailable financing.
Project management of restructurings typically requires the balancing of interests between various stakeholder groups such as owners, creditors and banks/corporate lenders.
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