Armada Performance Advisors

We provide a diverse set of services that are proven to help executives at middle market companies to overcome their most complex business challenges and achieve strategic and financial goals. Our team’s breadth of experience and depth of understanding of our clients’ businesses and industries allows us to quickly assess situations and provide fast-acting solutions. Our clients realize this guidance through the following services:

Creditor Advisory

APA provides advisory services to lenders and unsecured creditors in complex distressed situations both in and out of court. We specialize in giving clients with an informed assessment of the core issues surrounding business viability and the recovery of value. Our management and operations experience in distressed situations gives us a unique understanding of how to evaluate restructuring risks and opportunities from a pragmatic as well as strategic perspective.

We work closely with all parties of interest to provide a broad range of services including:

Business plan development, review, diligence, and scenario analysis
Contingency planning
Financial restructuring
Liquidity and business stabilization
Management of complex wind-downs
Negotiation of amendment and forbearance agreements
Operational restructuring and due diligence
Performance monitoring and reporting
Restructuring planning and implementation
Transaction diligence
Management evaluation

Transaction Advisory

Our professionals provide assistance in a variety of restructuring-related transactions, from debt origination or asset disposal for a troubled company, to performing due diligence for an investor evaluating a business acquisition, or pre-transaction diligence and preparation for businesses planning a sale process. Whether the need is to better understand enterprise value, assess risks, liquidate assets, or maximize enterprise value for a sale, our experience across numerous industries provides insight into the operational issues beyond the balance sheet.

Investment Due Diligence

Operational and organizational due diligence
Operational advisory
Management team assessment
Profit improvement planning

Business Integration

Pre-close planning of business integration
Execution of business integration plans

Exit Strategies

Seller planning and preparation for sale process
Exit planning advisory
Non-core asset divestiture

Turnaround & Restructuring

Our teams of advisors help middle market company executives and their stakeholders navigate through the challenges of market changes, regardless of the company’s life stage. We do it by leading partnerships between companies, sponsors and outside advisors. We help each to focus on shared goals that move the restructuring process forward and freeing management to drive the business and identify ways to enhance enterprise value. Our services include:

Business plan development and implementation
Business reviews
Contingency planning
Debt reorganization
Financial restructuring
Liquidity management and stabilization
Business stabilization
Operational restructuring leadership and execution
Restructuring planning and implementation

Late-stage distress and insolvency services:

Trustee and receivership appointments
Complex creditor negotiation
Asset Sales (363 Sales)
Insolvency / bankruptcy proceedings
First Day Motions
Statements and schedules
Claims resolution
Employee/Vendor communications
Plan of Reorganization development
Preference analysis and recoveries
Company wind-downs

Interim Management

Our professionals are seasoned operating executives accustomed to stepping into a variety of roles when assisting companies through difficult transitions. APA professionals have a depth of experience in advising private equity sponsors looking to accelerate or improve results in portfolio companies.

By assuming on-site, day-to-day senior management positions (e.g., chief restructuring officer, interim CEO, COO, CFO), our professionals take on operating roles that are pivotal to driving a successful restructuring effort, preserving enterprise value and managing high-growth environments. We do this through:

Business plan development and implementation
Business reviews
Contingency planning
Crisis management triage in situations of
- Unexpected management transition
- Legal, regulatory, reputational issues
- Covenant defaults, loss of executive confidence
Financial restructuring
Interim C-suite and functional roles to address
- Poor performing investment
- Weak processes, reporting or controls
- Need for culture change agents
- Need for particular expertise
- Corporate carve-out transitions
Liquidity and business stabilization
Management of complex wind-downs
Operational restructuring
Restructuring planning and implementation

Performance Improvement

Growing companies and driving higher enterprise valuations is what our team of advisors do, day in and day out. We recognize that each business and its circumstances are unique, so we customize solutions that are realistic, achievable and sustainable. Our approach is proven for companies at any life stage, from operations rapidly outgrowing their current model to those struggling to ignite profitable growth. Clients look to APA to address:

Disappointing operating results
Continuing declines in operating margins and other key success measurements
Slowdown in historic revenue growth
Erosion of liquidity
Board/management’s strategic review of operating units/divisions

New debt or refinancing
Negotiation of restructuring of balance sheet obligations
Divestiture of division(s) or sale of entire enterprise
Changes in market or operating environments

Performance Improvement services include:

Product/Service/Channel/Geography/Customer Profitability Analysis
Product/Service Cost Assessment
Asset Infrastructure Rationalization
Organizational Effectiveness Assessment
Liquidity Improvement Initiatives
Management Controls and Process Improvement Assessments

Compensation and Incentive Plan Design
Business Plan Development
Interim Management and Transition Leadership
Implementation Support
Divestiture of Non-Core Operations
Key Project Management
Identification and implementation of Key Performance Indicators

SERVICES

We bring experience, creativity and focus.