Corporate Recovery & Special Situations
Is your fundamentally viable business, property or project becoming financially or operationally distressed?
Facing lender pressure, refinancing difficulties, creditor action, cash-flow problems, operational breakdown or a stalled project?
The earlier we become involved, the more options are usually available.
“Distress does not necessarily mean the underlying business or asset has failed.
Often the problem is the capital structure, cash flow, operational model or stakeholder environment.
Our role is to identify where the value remains, stabilise the situation and build a commercially viable route forward.”
We stabilise difficult situations and build a route to recovery
We take a hands-on commercial approach, working alongside owners, lenders, shareholders, professional advisers and other stakeholders to understand the problem quickly and determine the most viable route forward.
We typically become involved where there is:
- Lender, bridging or refinancing pressure
- HMRC, creditor or supplier arrears
- Cash-flow or working-capital stress
- Personal guarantee exposure
- Distressed or underperforming property assets
- Stalled developments or projects
- Operational underperformance or management breakdown
- Shareholder or stakeholder conflict
- Imminent enforcement, receivership or insolvency risk
- A viable underlying business or asset, but no clear route forward
Financial restructuring is often only one part of the solution.
Depending on the circumstances, Winch & Co can support a turnaround through operational restructuring, lender and creditor negotiations, refinancing strategy, management intervention, asset realisation, business disposal, investment, acquisition, joint venture or other structured transactions.
Where specialist legal, tax or insolvency advice is required, we work alongside the appropriate professional advisers.
Nathan Winch
BSc (Hons), AMRSB, MIoD
His approach combines investment discipline with hands-on operational intervention, focused on preserving underlying value and establishing viable recovery or exit strategies.
Debra Hart
MIoD
Speed matters in distressed situations. Value can deteriorate quickly once liquidity tightens, lenders lose confidence or operational problems begin affecting customers, employees and suppliers.
Our first priority is therefore to establish the true position: cash, liabilities, assets, operational performance, stakeholder exposure and the immediate threats to value. From there we develop a structured recovery plan and determine which interventions are commercially realistic.
How we work
Winch & Co may act under a turnaround or restructuring mandate, invest directly, acquire equity or assets, participate in a joint venture, structure outcome-linked consideration, or use a combination of these approaches.
We first assess the underlying business or asset, the financial position, the stakeholders involved and the available recovery options before proposing an appropriate structure.
Our experience includes:
£14m+ finance discharged and restructured
Multiple businesses recovered from insolvency risk
Experience across receiverships, administrations, CVAs and liquidations
Hands-on operational turnaround across property-backed and trading businesses
“Since our company was acquired and restructured by Winch & Co, we have seen many positive improvements and investments in the site and the team.“
Roland Redfern-Lown
Talk to us before the situation becomes a crisis
Tell us what has happened, where the immediate pressure is coming from and what you are trying to protect or achieve. We will assess whether the situation falls within our special-situations mandate.
Testimonials
“Winch & Co and Nathan Winch have been a valuable, activist investor in Blue Bricks. Together, business growth and acquisitions have catapulted.”
Sam Cooke
“Winch & Co helped our business obtain NHS supply contracts and expand our public sector network. We recommend them as a working partner.”
Christine Brander
“We would recommend Nathan Winch at Winch & Co as a competent, business-minded individual, great at helping people grow their business.”
Mark Broughton
“Nathan Winch and the team at Winch & Co helped our business achieve ISO9001 certification, allowing us to bid on bigger contracts and frameworks.”
Andy Johnson
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