Analysis of Causes of Financial Distress - Birmingham - 27/04/2012 - FULLY BOOKED

This new workshop in the Institute for Turnaround's Professional Development programme has been produced with the support of FTI Consulting and in particularly, Shaun O’Callaghan, Senior Managing Director of FTI Consulting’s Corporate Finance/Restructuring practice.

The workshop will address how to understand the key drivers of underperformance in distressed businesses.  It will be discussion based and illustrated with practical examples and a case study.

Covering the analysis of market, financial and operational drivers it will discuss:

• Sources and usage of market data and intelligence;
• Effective benchmarking analysis;
• Identifying the true drivers of cash flow; and
• Interacting with and assessing management.
• Internal and external causes of a crisis

The workshop deals with developing a true understanding of a company’s underperformance in order to enable effective long lasting remedies to be implemented.

Shaun has more than 20 years’ experience as an advisor, executive and board director in the management of change in difficult and uncertain circumstances. He has worked with creditors to resolve troubled lending situations and at board level with companies to deliver complex, cross-border restructuring assignments.  He also advises international companies on how they can lead their people through changing economic conditions.  Clients include the Carlsberg Group and two of the top ten FTSE 100 companies.  Previously Shaun was the lead partner for KPMG’s strategic and operational restructuring practice, based in London, helping international companies build robust restructuring plans and advising lenders of the validity of the business and finance assumptions in plans submitted to support a refinancing.  He is the author of Turnaround Leadership, published by Kogan Page in 2010.