Advisory

Advisory comprises these core areas:

Consulting:

• Financial Risk
  Identifying and managing solutions for a variety of key financial risks. We help clients maintain financial performance, maximise their competitive edge, and optimise stakeholder value. Our focus is on delivering sustainable financial performance in the face of uncertain risks.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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.
• Transaction Services
  Transaction Services works with businesses to maximise return on investment through providing advice in respect of mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, spin-offs and strategic alliances: Financial Due Diligence , Transition and integration services ; Management team due diligence ; General HR Due Diligence ; Operational due diligence ; Synergy Analysis and Validation ; Commercial Due Diligence .

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• ACC partnership programme consulting; asset consulting; data mining; general and health insurance consulting; life insurance consulting; modelling and optimisation; superannuation consulting.

• Communications
• Energy and Mining
• Entertainment and Media
• Financial Services
• Industrial Manufacturing
• Local Government and Infrastructure Services
• Retail and Consumer
• Technology