Strategies to increase company resilience and strengthen your balance sheet
Whether for strategic reasons, opportunistically, or to help repair the damage done by the pandemic, we are seeing companies adopt over 10 different approaches to improve balance sheet strength. Each has legal issues to bear in mind and requires careful planning. You'll find short, indicative summaries for five of those approaches below. For advice on any of the approaches, or the key risks to bear in mind, please get in touch.
Just some of the balance sheet strategies we are advising clients on:
- Addressing / restructuring underperforming subsidiaries or portfolio companies
- Amending share rights
- Bringing intangible assets onto the balance sheet
- Buybacks, redemption and reduction of capital
- Corporate simplification
- Debt for equity swaps
- Diversification
- Divestment
- Equity fundraises
- Improving liquidity through additional borrowings
- Increasing capital from sale & leaseback of owned assets or real estate
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ESSENTIAL POINTS TO CONSIDER
1) Diversification >
2) Divestment >
3) Equity Fundraises >
4) Capturing the value of intangible assets >
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- Acted for 43 FTSE 100 companies in the last 2 years.
- Our tier-1 ranked corporate lawyers helped deliver £8bn+ of strategic deals last year.
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- Acted on 8 equity fundraises in the first 8 weeks following the initial coronavirus lockdown.
- Helped major clients tackle 895 restructuring challenges in the last 15 months.