Restructuring
About Restructuring
At AS Advisory, we assist in recovering and protecting your value during financial challenges. With genuine restructuring and insolvency experience, we provide expert guidance to companies, shareholders, creditors, and other stakeholders facing complex situations.
We specialise in diagnosing underlying issues, implementing tailored solutions, and stabilising businesses to preserve and enhance value. Our team is outcome-focused, upholding integrity and efficiency, and collaborating with a network of allied professionals like financiers, lawyers, and accountants to achieve your ideal results.
Informal Work Out
Our informal work out services provide a strategic path for businesses to address financial difficulties without formal insolvency. We work closely with stakeholders to negotiate revised terms, restructure debts, and implement customised solutions that stabilise operations and safeguard long-term viability.
Safe Harbour
Our Safe Harbour service supports directors in navigating financial challenges while protecting themselves from personal liability. We guide businesses through a structured approach that enables them to explore restructuring options and fulfill their obligations in compliance with legal requirements, all while focusing on preserving value for stakeholders.
Small Business Restructure
Our specialised small business restructure service is designed to help smaller enterprises regain financial stability. We create tailored plans that involve debt restructuring and operational improvements, balancing the needs of creditors while ensuring a sustainable future for the business.
Voluntary
Administration
Voluntary administration offers a structured way to restructure or wind down a business facing severe financial distress. Our team acts as administrators, assessing options, negotiating with creditors, and implementing solutions that aim to maximise returns for stakeholders and preserve the business’s value wherever possible.
Business Exit Options
At AS Advisory, we provide expert guidance for businesses considering their exit strategy, whether due to financial hardship, strategic decisions, or market shifts. Our experienced team offers practical solutions to navigate the complexities of exiting a business, ensuring that the process is handled with integrity, efficiency, and in the best interest of all stakeholders. We tailor our approach to meet the unique needs of each business, preserving value and minimising potential liabilities.
Informal Wind Down
Our informal wind down service provides an efficient, voluntary way to cease business operations when continuation is no longer viable. We assist with managing asset sales, settling debts, and handling outstanding obligations while aiming to maximise value and minimise disruption for all involved parties.
Liquidation
In cases where a business must be formally closed, our liquidation services ensure the orderly process of selling assets, paying creditors, and resolving legal requirements. Our team guides businesses through this process with transparency and efficiency, aiming to achieve the best possible outcome for creditors and stakeholders.
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Take our diagnostic test to assess the solvency of your company and the restructuring options available.
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Download our Restructuring Guide
Provides an overview of the restructuring options available and the benefits of each.
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Case Studies
Case Study: Saving an Event Hire Business via Administration
It’s been over five years since COVID-19 dramatically reshaped the business landscape. While many companies struggled to survive, some took bold, strategic steps to not just endure but come out stronger. One such example is an event hire business that faced an...
Detail in Numbers
Executive Summary During an insolvent trade claim by a liquidator, AS Advisory operated on behalf of the defendants. The defence concentrated on establishing the liquidator relied on incorrect and inaccurate financial information. To establish that the liquidator did...
When an Informal Restructure is the Answer
Executive Summary Business restructure requires a financially and operationally driven approach that focuses on balance sheets paired with shared effort in all aspects of the business to establish a plan. The best way to protect the value and restructure a company may...
Insights
Business Valuation Explained: What SME Owners Should Really Be Looking At
For most business owners, valuation is only thought about when someone asks the question. Whether it’s when a buyer approaches them. Or a lender requests financial information Or a creditor wants clarity about the position of the business. At that point, the business...
How Weak Governance Quietly Increases Insolvency Risk
Most insolvency risk doesn’t arrive suddenly. Instead, it builds quietly.
Weak governance is rarely obvious at first.
The business keeps trading. Revenue holds. The numbers look “okay”.
But behind the scenes, controls loosen, compliance slips, costs creep and small issues compound.
Q4 2025 reviews tell you what happened. How would it drive your January 2026 business decision?
Your Q4 review told you what happened.
January decides whether it repeats.
Many business owners return from the break with momentum – and a quiet sense that something in the numbers still doesn’t quite add up.
That’s normal.
What matters is whether Q4 insights get translated into action before the year accelerates.
We see the same pattern every year.
Cash tightens. Margins slip. Decisions start feeling urgent – not because the business is failing, but because financial clarity was deferred.
This blog breaks down:
– why January matters more than most realise
– a common post-Q4 cash and margin pattern we see in SMEs
– three practical questions to help you reset financial control early
If your Q4 review raised questions you haven’t yet turned into action, this is worth a read.
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