Have you recently asked the bank to waive covenants or amend terms? Are you feeling pressures from your key suppliers, or other stakeholders due to cash-flow or other financial challenges? Have you been asked to sign a forbearance agreement or has your account been sent to special loans group at the bank? If so, the time to act is now.
Decisive and swift action is required to survive and maintain control of your business, and a specialized and collaborative approach is the only way to respond to these challenges.
Act quickly when you see the early triggers of financial distress—including cash flow problems, shrinking profit margins, eroding customer base or market share, and expressions of concern or pressure from bankers and suppliers.
Whether you need debt financing expertise, restructuring support, or both—immediate action buys you the time to formulate a plan and minimize the perception of desperation.
Stressed and distressed situations require a specialized blend of corporate finance advisory along with restructuring expertise. While both disciplines are essential to achieve optimal results, it’s often hard to find them under one roof—until now.
Evaluate options, assist in decision-making, and build strategies that enhance business value.
Source operating loans, asset-based and bridge loans, sub-debt, mezzanine financing, and more.
Assist in selling part or all of the business may be the best strategy to maximize value for stakeholders.
Address operating and financial issues to restore profitability and manage cash flows challenges.
When dealing with a variety of concerned stakeholders, it can often feel like you are being pulled in a million different directions. However, you still have a business to operate.
Our team of professionals, skilled in both negotiation and conflict resolution, work seamlessly to balance the diverse, and often conflicting, interests of your lenders, key suppliers, employees, unions, shareholders, directors, landlords, and other stakeholders.
It may be tempting to try and fix your business without help, but the truth is relationships matter. We have the connections and credibility to assist you with the time to implement a credible plan.
With over 40 years of experience, we have established relationships with Canada’s leading financial institutions—including special loans departments—and have access to a large network of trusted lenders, private equity investors, hedge funds, and other strategic buyers.
Find out how B. Riley Farber helped a distressed company avoid insolvency and regain the trust of their lenders. Learn more.
We work directly with stressed and distressed companies, and their advisors, to ensure a comprehensive financial solution is developed while maintaining the company’s value.
From refinancing, developing a sale strategy, M&A support, or restructuring we help turn your financial challenges into opportunities.
B. Riley Farber helps companies when they need it the most. With a proven track-record for completing deals, delivering results and finding favorable resolutions, we aim to keep your business not only operating in the normal course, but to position it for future success.
We have acted as a trusted advisor for companies, investors and other stakeholders—at all stages of stressed and distressed situations.
Our team of professionals provide expert technical knowledge in the areas of strategy, debt & equity financing, mergers & acquisitions, divestitures, and corporate restructuring.
