Aylward Street

What is Our Focus?

Our Focus has two dimensions with a common thread:

Immediate Business Stabilisation

The first dimension is aimed at helping companies in the very short term who find that they are experiencing a serious financial entanglement or crisis which requires experienced specialists (who are not liquidators) to work with stakeholders to resolve and stabilise the present crunch.

Commercially Experienced Diagnosis

During the hands-on stabilisation process, conduct a contemporaneous penetrating examination of what the exact causes of the financial difficulties are, look at all realistic alternatives available and then , if required, help the stakeholders execute all relevant components of the recovery strategy.

The Common Thread

The common thread between these two areas of focus is the need to quickly ascertain exactly whether and how shareholder and enterprise value may be maximised and indeed if the business is viable in the long term under the present business structure.

Aylward Street

About Us

Our firm adopts a highly confidential and disciplined professional evaluation and problem diagnosis approach, that enables us to craft prompt and incisive solution-focussed recommendations for key stakeholders as required.

Our crafted solutions, where requested, are accompanied by a detailed execution plan and timetable which we can either execute in tandem with management or on behalf of other authorised parties.

Our History

Our team members have over 60 years hard-core commercial experience in delivering business viability, rationalisation and reconstruction services to predominantly private and public companies as well as businesses who, for the most part, have operated in the SME sector. Our Clients’ needs have required us to provide comprehensive field based services which, over an extensive number of assignments in a variety of industries, has resulted in us having a hands on understanding of the strategic, marketing, operations and management control functions of the business.

As a result, the value we bring to the table is a direct result of extensive dealings with an vast array of key business areas ranging from risk mitigation, ROI maximisation, business survival and growth; all aimed at boosting shareholder value and sustainable free cash flow. With our team’s hands-on involvement in many many scores of material business transactions (acquisitions, mergers, rationalisations, reconstructions and divestitures), we have gained a wide exposure to, and deep knowledge of, business risk, the pitfalls and blunders to avoid, profit strategies and business designs that will and won’t work, as well as widespread commercial debt, equity and quasi equity instrument evaluation and re-organisation where required.

Our diversified commercial experience regularly leads us having continuous negotiations and involvement with accountants, bankers, lawyers , secured and unsecured creditors and, from time to time, external controllers.  We understand what it is for a corporation to sail close to the wind and what steps companies must take to recover and boost shareholder value.

By focussing on boosting shareholder value via presenting and executing practical, well crafted solutions, we have been usually, but not always, been able to avoid the need to seek external controllers as history shows that such solutions do not necessarily maximise shareholder value. This view appears to be  supported by the prospective impact of the 2017 Safe Harbour legislation and potential Corporations Act (Cth) 2001 relief from contravention of s588G (ie insolvent trading provisions) of that Act.

Our Vision

“We derive huge satisfaction from being able to help companies have some serious fun, survive and prosper. Business can be at once simple and complicated. It is often like preparing a stew on an old wood fire stove – you stir here and there, you taste it, you put on more wood, you occasionally move the pot to one side and let it simmer; you add salt, stir a bit more and keep making changes until it is perfect.

Helping shareholders assess and unravel the mysteries and complications to help the business survive and grow in value is what we love doing and what we are very good at.

This is why our business exists.”

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Our Services

Preliminary Indicative Assessment – A service completed within 24-48 hours

Suitable for: Companies which realise that trading difficulties exist or are emerging, but need immediate specialist help to quickly determine (a) the depth and severity of the difficulties and (b) what immediate steps need to be taken to resolve the issues.

 

Aylward Street Value-Add: At a low cost and with minimal management time interruption, our experience and technology enables us to provide you with a comprehensive plain English assessment of the depth and severity of issues confronting a company. Our service includes an extensive written analysis with ample time to discuss the contents with management and its advisers so as to determine a way forward. This service is normally completed within 24-48 hours from the time management provides the answers to our online questionnaire.

Crisis Intervention and Stabilisation

Suitable for: Companies suffering from instability due to significant short term management or financial crisis.

 

Aylward Street Value-Add: Provision of Interim Management resources specialising in bringing the crises under control via swift stabilisation procedures and approach, that is both highly disciplined and structured but also flexible enough to fuse with any single or multi-unit business.

Business Diagnosis & Evaluation – Alternative Strategies & Analysis

Suitable For: Parties seeking to understand the precise causes of unsatisfactory profitability, losses or threats to the business and how they can be resolved in a way so as to remove or deflect external threats and to simultaneously maximise shareholder value.

 

Aylward Street Value-Add:  Hands-on array of industry experience combined with an intelligent and disciplined methodologies will provide stakeholders with a comprehensive but succinct and salient plan, diagnosis and evaluation (internal and external) of the business as well as shareholder value prospects. The plan is combined with alternative strategies and options for key stakeholders.

Plan Execution via Rationalisation & Reconstruction Services

Suitable For:  Stakeholders who wish to receive help in the execution of plans emanating from the business diagnosis and evaluation process.

 

Aylward Street Value-add: The Plan Execution phase involves the enactment of the diagnosis and evaluation inspired plans, tactics and strategies. This process requires close collaboration with our client’s Key Management team members and normally their respective internal and external legal and financial advisers, depending on the nature and extent of issues uncovered. Where requested we will monitor and drive the plan to its successful denouement utilising our skills and experience as required.

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Our Experience

These are some of the 40+ different sectors in which the Aylward Street team have had senior hands-on commercial management experience reporting principally to CEO’s / Boards , Lenders and Investors/ Shareholders as required . Our Roles and Functions have in many instances been akin to those of a Chief Restructuring Officer’s. Other key commercial aspects include acting as lead manager of many scores of merger/ acquisition/ divestiture projects focussing on the investment and finance decisions as well as the pivotal post acquisition recovery/growth phases – often under extremely difficult and sensitive commercial circumstances.

Our members’ experience includes dealing with clients with staff up to 750 or chains (including franchised chains) up to 300 outlets however we are very comfortable dealing with any business needing our services.

The key business types and sectors where we have had experience traverse the manufacturing / import / wholesale / distribution / e-commerce-retail / services and property sectors.

More specifically, our hands-on experience has been sourced from companies within the following industry types.

Hands-On Industry Experience

  • Automotive – Cosmetic Repair
  • Airconditioning – Retail
  • Airconditioning – Service and Maintenance
  • Airconditioning – Commercial
  • Airconditioning – Transport Refrigeration
  • Aviation – Multi Divisional
  • Engineering – Shipbuilding and Commercial
  • Fashion – Retail Chains
  • Fashion – E-Commerce
  • Swimwear – E-commerce
  • Ladies Fashion – Manufacturing (Onshore and Offshore)
  • Financial Services – Professional Practices
  • Franchisor – Establishment and Re-habilitation
  • Franchisor – Chains
  • Hardware and Timber Chains – Retail
  • Health Product – Import, Wholesale and Retail
  • Health and Beauty Industry
  • Homewares – Retail
  • Hospitality
  • Hotels
  • Commercial Printing Groups
  • Confirming – Trade Finance
  • Library Products – Wholesale Distribution
  • Liquor Wholesale
  • Direct Marketing
  • Metal Fabrication
  • Property – Commercial & Commercial Management
  • Property – Investment Trusts
  • Property – Industrial
  • Property – Retail Shopping Centres
  • Property Development
  • Publishing – Magazines
  • Publishing – Online
  • Rural – Investment
  • Software Development – Service Industry
  • Stationary –  Retail
  • Stationary – Import and  Wholesale
  • Stationary – Manufacturing
  • Timber – Wholesale
  • Timber – Milling

Aylward Street

Get in touch

NEXT STEPS

If you want to discuss any particular aspect of your corporate position which relates to the two dimensions of our focus stated above, we would be happy to have an confidential, obligation free talk with you and/or your legal and financial advisers at any mutually convenient time.

All enquires are treated with the utmost confidentiality.

In the first instance contact Damian Street via (+61) 0431 799 936.



Contact Details

We prefer to visit you in the first instance or alternatively, call us to make an appointment at one of our numerous interstate offices.
Damian Street - (+61) 0431 799 936
damian@aylwardstreet.com