How we will advise you to handle “a Business Crisis”

A highly competitive, global marketplace provides the best of both worlds, opportunities for unlimited growth while providing opulent sources of peril. Erratic and unsolicited events, either internal or external, may apathetically impact even the most stable businesses.

A crisis may activate serious tribulations, including declining earnings, liquidity and cash-flow shortfalls. Lack of confidence and pressure from stakeholders, suppliers and customers, as well as regulatory scrutiny, demoralization of staff and potentially reputational damage should be of major concern. A delayed or limited response to these issues may be extremely damaging to your business.

If You are in or face Crisis

• You are concerned about short-term cash flow and financial obligations.
• You are continually receiving pressure from vendors
• You are losing revenues from valuable technology and intellectual properties
• You are investigating fraud allegation
• You are falling short of market expectations.
• Your credit rating is in jeopardy of being downgraded.
• You are facing litigation or a class action law suit

This is how PCL Strategies, LLC Can Help You

Whatever the difficulty your company faces, PCL Strategies, LLC’s national network of ‘in crisis management technologist” will work with you to effectively resolve the issues.

Exclusive support, coddled with prompt, decisive actions, is the key to neutralizing the effects of a crisis. Properly identified and, addressing the root cause(s) of an adverse state of affairs are equally important in neutralizing those same risks.

Services provided by PCL Strategies, LLC include the following:

Dispute Analysis & Investigations

• Conducting fraudulent investigations
• Serving as expert witnesses
• Providing support to lawyers and other parties involved in litigation
• Providing arbitration, mediation and other dispute resolution forums
• Utilizing financial accounting skills with industry expertise
• Advising on claims processing
• Minimizing business disruptions, financial loss and reputational damage
• Implementing effective remedial action

 Advising & Reformation

• Identify problem areas quickly
• Establish Root Causation
• Determine action plans
• Gain consensus of stakeholders
• Stabilize crisis situations
• Preserve economic value
• Implement timely customized solutions that  eliminate Root Causation
• Develop, Design, Instruct, Implement, the “Elimination Process” throughout organization
• Assist companies and creditors to develop turnaround plans
• Assist companies in restructuring plans
• Assist companies and stakeholders in various exit strategies
• Analysis of non-core asset evaluation and Divestiture of same
• Renegotiate and restructure legal responsibilities

Crisis v. Preservation

Consider a situation such as the following:

Business is stable, projections are being met. Sales are on target and staff numbers have been increased to cope with targeted demand. Share price performance is exceeding expectations. Life is good.

Then, fissures begin to appear—commodity prices spike, market dynamics fluctuate, competitive pressures intensify, a major customer demands price concessions, cash levels deteriorate, health and pensions caretakers threaten cost increases. Other challenges begin to develop: employee underutilization, new facility problems, difficulties integrating systems, late regulatory filings and more. Anxiety replaces confidence. Now, things aren’t so good.

Business/ Economic tribulation’s may arise quickly and for a variety of reasons. Whatever the mechanism, any stimulus of the 21^st century may positively or negatively impact your marketplace or internally, the price of not identifying and quickly moving to resolve business fluctuations will put a company into crisis.

Are you facing any of these situation’s

• You must maintain credibility
•  Performance demonstrates shortfall of market expectations
• Share price is falling
• Margins are shrinking
• You must preserve value
• You need to optimize recovery value from an underperforming business unit
• You are facing potential or actual breaches of financial covenants
• You must stabilize cash flows
• You are not receiving the correct financial information
• Financial information is not timely to make informed decisions
• You must control the company’s exposure to losses
• You must demonstrate capabilities in reassuring  stakeholder confidence
• You must demonstrate the company’s prospective viability
• You must demonstrate what restructuring options are available
• You must deliver!!!