ExpertiseRestructuring and Turnaround
Driving recovery and securing sustainable business futures
Today’s business landscape is largely defined by high levels of disruption and uncertainty, placing companies under transformative pressure from shrinking margins, debt challenges, and liquidity crises. Rapid market shifts and economic strain often escalate into strategic, performance, or even liquidity crises, which in turn demand swift, decisive action.
Our Restructuring & Turnaround Management services deliver rapid, results-oriented recovery through tailored strategies. We support clients across all industries and at every crisis stage – from liquidity protection to financial and operational restructuring. Our holistic approach integrates liquidity forecasting, bankable business plans, hands-on implementation of turnaround measures, and negotiation with stakeholders.
The value we create is clearly measurable:
- reduced insolvency risk thanks to strict cash management
- accelerated recovery on the basis of clear turnaround roadmaps,
- enhanced enterprise value through operational optimization.
Backed by extensive experience with mid-sized enterprises and private equity owners, we are proud to drive results, from the stabilization stage right through to the point of exit.
Our service offering in turnaround management
- Creating full transparency and short-term liquidity stabilization
- Anticipating liquidity shortages by means of a weekly rolling direct liquidity forecast and comparison
- Subsequent reduction of insolvency and liability risk
- Setting up a robust and bankable business plan for financial and operative restructuring
- Deriving liquidity gap and turnaround target
- Developing turnaround roadmap incl. sustainable and measure-driven restructuring opinion report along with its financial and operative measures
- Structuring and securing viable financing solutions via alternative debt providers, ensuring successful turnaround
- Establishing bespoke financing process incl. debt story with funding support from Fortlane Partners debt advisory
- Tight lender communication
- Operational turnaround support along the entire restructuring path
- Comprehensive restructuring with hands-on support (CRO services)
- Reviewing and optimizing manufacturing, personnel, and procurement
- Securing ongoing turnaround through third-party capital provider negotiations
- Ensuring successful turnaround for PE exit
- Prepare and initiate sell-side M&A process
- Advise on valuation and timing, collaborate with Fortlane Partners M&A team, and provide fully-fledged M&A support
Client StorYGlobal corporate communications group
Our client was a leading global group for corporate communications with € 3 billion in sales and 9,000 employees (3,000 in Germany). We provided restructuring support in cooperation with the CEO, CFO, CRO and CHRO.
For this client outstanding results were achieved:
- Cost savings of € 280 million
- EBIT increased by more than 275%
"We bring clarity to complexity, ensuring financial stability and operational performance in challenging situations under pressure." Dr. Christian Dietrich, Partner at Fortlane Partners
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Fortlane Partners Book Logic®Transformation:
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We use the Fortlane Partners Book Logic® to unlock the full potential of transformation programs for our clients. This performance management approach enables a direct link between the income statement and the measures taken, thus continuously increasing value creation from planning to execution. What’s more, the use of Book Logic® prevents the multiple counting of effects.
The steps to improve performance are being advanced throughout the company along so-called Color Books®. What are the key factors for a successful transformation and what potential savings do the individual Color Books® offer?
