Atlhas Finance: Corporate Finance & Corporate Strategy
Atlhas Finance supports entrepreneurs in the financial and strategic management of their company, with particular reference to operations of an extraordinary nature
Each project is followed exclusively by professionals with many years of experience, both from a managerial and strictly operational point of view.
In Atlhas Finance, we still believe that consulting is first to be at the service of our customers, in a relationship of mutual, fair, honest and transparent collaboration.
Below is a brief summary of the main extraordinary transactions.
Atlhas Finance supports entrepreneurs in the financial and strategic management of their company, with particular reference to operations of an extraordinary nature
Each project is followed exclusively by professionals with many years of experience, both from a managerial and strictly operational point of view.
In Atlhas Finance, we still believe that consulting is first to be at the service of our customers, in a relationship of mutual, fair, honest and transparent collaboration.
Below is a brief summary of the main extraordinary transactions.
Corporate restructuring plans to deal with corporate crisis situations
When there is a progressive reduction in the company is operating margin, we are often faced with a situation of corporate crisis, even if not overt, on which it would be appropriate to intervene in order to:
- reverse the phenomenon;
- prevent future situations of financial stress.
Simplifying, the lines of intervention are mainly two, on the one hand we intervene in order to restore margins - recovering turnover and / or cutting costs - and improve the management of working capital, on the other hand new payment plans are negotiated with creditors if the existing ones are no longer compatible with the cash that the company is able to generate.
These interventions are summarized in an industrial corporate restructuring plan, which is a case of an industrial plan, which as usual contains, among other things, forecasts for the income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement.
Depending on the degree of progress of the problem, the legal instruments adopted are various: out-of-court agreement, certified recovery plan and in-court debt restructuring agreements.
It should also be noted that from September 2021 the new Corporate Crisis Code, abbreviated to CCI, which partially changes the legal tools available for crisis management, should come into force - the conditional is necessary, given the numerous postponements.
Company acquisitions
In some cases, it may be convenient to expand your business “endowment” - in terms of products, brands, patents, customers or know-how - by resorting to business acquisition.
A choice of this type requires the performance of numerous activities and diligences - a broader, albeit synthetic, list can be found on the Acquisitions page of our site - and the support of a specialized financial advisor is almost always essential, if you want to avoid surprises. Unpleasant.
Furthermore, if the business acquisition represents a faster, and in some ways safer, way to increase one's business "endowment", it presupposes not only the upstream activities mentioned above, but also the downstream activities, of integration, once the acquisition is complete.
This is what is referred to with the commonly used expression "mergers and acquisitions". This aspect is particularly important for the operation to bear the hoped-for results, and involves often-important organizational interventions.
These interventions cannot be left to themselves, but should be supervised by a person in charge, whether the latter is a manager of the company, or a temporary manager who takes care of the transition period in which the organizational processes and information systems of the new company are integrated. Atlhas Finance can, in some cases, help you find the right person.
Sale of company
The sale of a company could be the solution that generates greater value for the shareholders, for example in some situations:
- in the presence of a "difficult" generational change due to the lack of interest of the heirs in the management of the company;
- in maturing markets where consolidation phenomena are underway and some competitors, who are already ahead in this process, having reached greater dimensions, may be interested in continuing on this path by recognizing a premium price for the company, thanks to the acquisition’s synergies they could leverage on;
It should be borne in mind that the sale of a business requires preparatory activities without which part of the value for the shareholders would be lost or even the possibility of a successful sale would be completely compromised. We refer you to our Sales page for more information on the subject.
Corporate restructuring plans to deal with corporate crisis situations
When there is a progressive reduction in the company is operating margin, we are often faced with a situation of corporate crisis, even if not overt, on which it would be appropriate to intervene in order to:
- reverse the phenomenon;
- prevent future situations of financial stress.
Simplifying, the lines of intervention are mainly two, on the one hand we intervene in order to restore margins - recovering turnover and / or cutting costs - and improve the management of working capital, on the other hand new payment plans are negotiated with creditors if the existing ones are no longer compatible with the cash that the company is able to generate.
These interventions are summarized in an industrial corporate restructuring plan, which is a case of an industrial plan, which as usual contains, among other things, forecasts for the income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement.
Depending on the degree of progress of the problem, the legal instruments adopted are various: out-of-court agreement, certified recovery plan and in-court debt restructuring agreements.
It should also be noted that from September 2021 the new Corporate Crisis Code, abbreviated to CCI, which partially changes the legal tools available for crisis management, should come into force - the conditional is necessary, given the numerous postponements.
Company acquisitions
In some cases, it may be convenient to expand your business “endowment” - in terms of products, brands, patents, customers or know-how - by resorting to business acquisition.
A choice of this type requires the performance of numerous activities and diligences - a broader, albeit synthetic, list can be found on the Acquisitions page of our site - and the support of a specialized financial advisor is almost always essential, if you want to avoid surprises. Unpleasant.
Furthermore, if the business acquisition represents a faster, and in some ways safer, way to increase one's business "endowment", it presupposes not only the upstream activities mentioned above, but also the downstream activities, of integration, once the acquisition is complete.
This is what is referred to with the commonly used expression "mergers and acquisitions". This aspect is particularly important for the operation to bear the hoped-for results, and involves often-important organizational interventions.
These interventions cannot be left to themselves, but should be supervised by a person in charge, whether the latter is a manager of the company, or a temporary manager who takes care of the transition period in which the organizational processes and information systems of the new company are integrated. Atlhas Finance can, in some cases, help you find the right person.
Sale of company
The sale of a company could be the solution that generates greater value for the shareholders, for example in some situations:
- in the presence of a "difficult" generational change due to the lack of interest of the heirs in the management of the company;
- in maturing markets where consolidation phenomena are underway and some competitors, who are already ahead in this process, having reached greater dimensions, may be interested in continuing on this path by recognizing a premium price for the company, thanks to the acquisition’s synergies they could leverage on;
It should be borne in mind that the sale of a business requires preparatory activities without which part of the value for the shareholders would be lost or even the possibility of a successful sale would be completely compromised. We refer you to our Sales page for more information on the subject.