Grayoak Capital Partners offers independent financial restructuring and turnaround advisory services, catering specifically to the needs of management teams, boards of directors, and friendly shareholder groups of underperforming mid-market businesses facing distress or exhibiting early signs of financial strain. We recognize that in the current business environment, organizations are constantly vulnerable to the rapid changes in global macroeconomic and geopolitical trends, the increasingly shorter economic cycles and reversals, and profound industry-wide technology driven disruptions. This, combined with any internal operational inefficiencies, highly leveraged capital structures or growth challenges arising from market saturation or competitive pressures, has the potential to place even the most robust operators in a situation of temporary or prolonged financial distress. As a result, each restructuring engagement is unique and we often deploy a multitude of concurrent strategies, tailored specifically to navigate a company out of its current financial impediment and position them for sustained stability and growth in an ever-evolving business landscape. We offer a suite of out-of-court debtor advisory solutions to the middle market.
Debt Restructuring: we specialize and strive to create the most optimal re-packaging of existing debt instruments combining amend and extend arrangements, covenant adjustments and a host of other solutions, and equally lead effective negotiations with creditors across the debt stack.
Specialized Financing: distressed situations significantly limit access to traditional financing. We leverage our Financing and Capital Markets prowess to work with global strategic capital providers along with a range of institutional lenders and financial investors active in distressed investing. This enables us to structure and close bridge, rescue and exit financings along with other forms of emergency capital in an expeditious manner.
Distressed M&A and Asset Divestiture: sale transactions in this arena are inherently complex due to apparent buyer leverage, limited buyer pools, and highly accelerated time schedules requiring multiple transaction processes to be run simultaneously. We navigate these challenges and others to elevate transaction values, by leveraging our Mergers and Acquisitions capabilities, proprietary processes of expedited transaction management and ability to work with a host of distressed company acquirers – including loan-to-own private equity firms, special situation funds, and strategic buyer groups adept at compressed transaction timelines.
Operational Turnarounds: our expertise in operational workouts extends vastly beyond just expense cuts and workforce reduction as disparate time urgent initiatives. We architect and execute holistic turnaround plans that have a significant continuous impact. Core focus areas include short and long term revenue enhancement measures, sustainable margin accretion, supply chain optimization, strategic outsourcing of non-core functions and accelerated automation through technology. We combine multifaceted in-house corporate finance and strategy prowess with a network of sector specific turnaround specialists to deliver high impact operational transformations.
Financial Structure Optimization: we actively work with businesses that are demonstrating early indicators of future distress and have internal stakeholders that want to take a proactive approach to step change the overall financial health and efficiency of the going concern. We develop and execute comprehensive financial restructuring strategies covering overall capital structure optimization and realignment, capital allocation to maximize strategic and operational returns, efficient utilization of long terms assets, astute management of working capital and cash conversion cycles, and a comprehensive array of other tailored financial interventions.
Every restructuring and turnaround mandate is shaped by our stakeholder management capabilities. Leveraging our deep expertise of financial and strategic incentives of all material stakeholders in a restructuring scenario, we architect each transaction from inception to maximize stakeholder alignment and minimize execution risk. We combine an extensive knowledge of restructuring strategies with M&A expertise, competent credit analysis, capital markets intelligence, operational depth, and negotiation command to meaningfully change the course of companies in distressed situations.