PRIOR ASSIGNMENTS - GAI Capital has assisted several clients in both "new" and "old" economy businesses involved in manufacturing, distribution, and service-related industries in a variety of manners including:
Independent reviews of business strategies, operating policies & practices, and financial structure for several manafacturing, distribution, and service firms (see checklists below for details)
Implementing new management processes, operating policies and organizational restructurings for several clients resulting in significant operational improvements and increases in bottom-line profits.
Providing independent consulting to the board of directors for a financially distressed company. Advised CEO and other senior executives in managment of the company in the areas of strategy, operational cost reductions, capital raising, and customer service levels.
Refinancing of a troubled company through a complicated real estate asset sale and leaseback transaction coupled with a supplier operating agreement.
Negotiating an out-of-bankruptcy settlement with a group of 100 unsecured creditors.
Managing the sale of a distribution company and a manufacturing company.
Developing financial strategies and analyses to re-capitalize and restructure the shareholder group of a family business.
Providing independent consulting to an institutional private equity firm to diagnose and develop a profit improvement/turnaround plan for an underperforming portfolio company.
Provided another institutional firm with a short term organizational and operational restructuring plan for a company that was in violation of creditor forbearance agreements.
Providing family business consulting to the operating business and multi-generational family shareholders in the areas of succession management, ownership and governance transition, on-going shareholder agreements, and financial planning.
CONSULTING TOOLS - While each client assignment has a customized approach to addressing the project objectives, the following are examples of some of the tools GAI Capital has developed to provide a standardized check list of key issues to consider when developing client project workplans.