Advisory comprises these core areas:
Actuarial Services
ACC partnership programme consulting; asset consulting; data mining; general and health insurance consulting; life insurance consulting; modelling and optimisation; superannuation consulting.
Business Recovery Services
Tackling financial under-performance to improve returns to businesses and stakeholders; hands-on help with turnarounds and cashflow management; advice to lenders; advice on exit strategies; insolvency; liquidiations; receiverships; statutory management; business appraisals; business sales; corporate reorganisation; litigation support and expert witnesses; pre-lending reviews; forensic accounting and fraud investigations.
Corporate Finance Services
Mergers and Acquisitions – Strategy, scoping and searching; sell side lead advisory services; buy side lead advisory services; public and private capital raisings; management buy-outs; formation of strategic relationships and Private Equity transactions.
Valuations and Strategy – Business, asset and share valuations for transactions, accounting and tax purposes; purchase price allocation and impairment testing; independent expert reports pursuant to the NZX Listing Rules and Takeovers Code; intangible asset valuations; economic value analysis; business and strategic planning.
Dispute Analysis / Litigation Support – Financial, economic and business advice to lawyers, corporate counsel and parties involved in litigation and other dispute resolution forums; expert witness testimony; expert determinations.
Forensic Services
Investigating allegations of fraud, theft and corruption; designing and implementing fraud prevention strategies; suspicious transaction analysis – detecting fraud where no prior suspicion exists and where there may be large volumes of transactions; local and overseas pre-employment screening and background verification checks; forensic examination of computers; training in fraud prevention, detection and investigation; investigating software piracy, computer hacking, cybercrime and 'high tech' fraud; asset tracing; liaison with law enforcement and assistance with civil litigation; forensic accounting; anti-money laundering.
Performance Improvement Services
We help organisations, of all shapes and sizes, to continuously evolve and adapt in the face of a constantly changing and increasingly complex environment. We help them react with agility to opportunities and threats by delivering ongoing performance improvements to allow them to gain and protect competitive advantage.
We pride ourselves on our ability to connect an in depth understanding of the economic environment, industry knowledge and business drivers with our technical expertise to create the right outputs for our clients.
In particular we concentrate on five inter-related and inter-dependent aspects of any organisation. Each must be properly aligned if organisations are to achieve their potential. These are: People; Processes; Strategy; Structure; Technology.
Public Sector Strategy
Governance issues are attracting considerable interest and debate in the public sector. Improvements in public sector management frameworks have sought to raise the standard of governance and further work is continuing, particularly in respect of Crown entities and local government.
Private Client Services
Accounting: compliance; management; value financials.
Company Growth: human resource advice; systems advice and selection; proven procedures and best practice; capital raising; challenge planning; growth and innovation; financial modelling and scenario planning.
Structure and Ownership: trusts; company structure; share schemes; valuations; MBOs; divestment; mergers & acquisitions.
Taxation: individuals and companies.
Industry expertise
We work with clients across all industries, with particular strengths in:
