BUSINESS ADVISORY

AETHEON CAPITAL utilizes its deep professional experience and local knowledge and offers tailor-made business advisory services designed for private equity investors and corporate clients active in CEE region.

Our key initiatives comprise:
 Our focus, roles and services:

TURN AROUND AND COMPANY REORGANIZATIONS

  

We are specialists for unlocking value in companies in underperforming, distressed or turnaround situations. We help companies define and implement successful strategies that enable them to survive in difficult times, encourage growth and significantly outperform initial market expectations. Members of our restructuring team can temporarily serve on management boards being directly responsible for crisis management and restructuring programs.

  • Strategy definition & company positioning  

  • Business plan development

  • Fund raising & Capital structure optimization

  • Crisis management

  • Development and implementation of complex turn-around programmes

  • Increase of operational effectiveness: profitability, cost cutting, streamlining operations, business process reengineering, supply chain management

  • Revenue growth: business development, sales & marketing strategy

  • Risk management

CONSOLIDATION AND EXPANSION STRATEGY

We help our clients to plan and successfully manage expansion over multiple CEE markets. We are able to set the strategy for organic growth as well as to identify right acquisition opportunities or strategic partners enabling growth of local companies to regional CEE level. Ultimate goal is transformation of our clients’ businesses from independent local players into leading integrated regionally operating groups.

  • Definition of market expansion strategy,

  • Market research

  • Identification of acquisition targets or strategic partners

  • Expansion financing,

  • Fund raising

  • Assistance with execution of expansion strategy

  • Identification of horizontal and vertical synergies

  • Post-merger integration

COMMERCIAL DUE DILIGENCE

Commercial Due Diligence helps with assessment of target company’s development potential as well as risk associated with running of the business. We help our clients in making their decisions whether to invest by performing strategic and commercial due diligence, evaluating product positioning, competitive and operational threats and opportunities. We have skills and experience to develop strategic or operational business case for doing a successful deal.

  • Comprehensive analysis of products, markets, customers suppliers and competition

  • Evaluation of management capabilities

  • Analysis and benchmarking of operational performance

  • Business model and business plan review

BUSINESS PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT

  

Continuous improvement of performance and efficiency is a must for CEE companies in order to outperform the competition and create value for their shareholders. We have vast experience with business performance improvements that lead to shareholder’s value growth and to exceptional returns on investment. 

We help our clients to achieve extraordinary returns by adding value to their investments through development and implementation of complex business performance improvement programs. We always focus on key value drivers: revenue growth, operating margin, asset efficiency and expectations management.

  • Strategy development & company positioning

  • Strategic planning

  • Value Based Management (VBM)

  • Increase of operational effectiveness: profitability, cost cutting, streamlining operations, business process reengineering, supply chain management

  • Revenue growth: business development, sales & marketing strategy, sales force effectiveness

  • Optimisation of organisational structure

  • Product differentiation

  • Competitive analysis

  • Product development, launch of new products

  • Business plan development

  • Financial management improvement

  • Risk management