With each new standard, increasing regulations and a growing compliance burden as businesses become more global in search of new markets, financial accounting and analysis becomes a lot more complicated.

For all businesses that want to keep up to date on domestic and financial reporting or venturing into new markets or facing these challenges already, qualified professionals at CooperSummors are on hand to provide and undertake high quality accounting advice, with the breadth and depth of knowledge and technical expertise to help. Our financial accounting and accounting technical advice, support tools, guidance, and training will help improve the quality of your company’s financial reporting.

At CooperSummors our management consulting, outsourcing and technology services help consumer goods and service companies transform their businesses in an ever evolving industry landscape.

Our industry solutions developed across many leading companies provide businesses with sustained capabilities through ERP, custom and emerging technologies, optimised supply chain management, cost structure management and unique mix of strategies that serve as a foundation for increasing growth and sustaining long term success.

Regulatory, market and technological advancement for energy and industrials provide clear signals on the overall direction of cleaner energy and processes. Companies in this sector are looking for ways to navigate this rapidly changing landscape of regulation and reporting regimes.

Our professionals can provide best practices and opportunities with businesses around the world, by offering:

• Strategies and robust planning
• People and change management
• Operational controls to ensure margin benefits and increased volume
• Trading partners and banking relationships to ensure liquidity

As the financial and business services markets continue to evolve and adjust in times of risk, restructurings and market developments all the way through to employee management, CooperSummors has a network of professionals that can provide a clear understanding on these changes. Our advisors offer to assess changing regulations, effects on market movements, profitability and performance.

We offer a wide range of services that are specifically designed for the financial and business services markets, in areas such as human capital, performance, risk management, regulatory compliance and technology solutions.

With several reforms taking place in developed and developing countries around the world, many providers of healthcare systems and companies within the life science industry will undertake significant changes.

Years of industry experience and understanding underpin our services, with our advisors helping our clients to meet these challenges head-on, providing the ability to meet new opportunities and respond quickly in today’s economic environment.

Through a comprehensive understanding of the business needs, our industry expertise, services and skill sets offer customer focused solutions that provide smart business strategies in business transformation and large scale projects from project finance, design & build, through to operations and maintenance.

Our in-depth knowledge allows us to work closely with our clients to map out and achieve real business results.

Working alongside our team of professionals in human resources, corporate finance, taxation, national and international compliance, our legal and regulatory professionals provide innovative and commercially aware solutions in:

• Corporate and Commercial
• Immigration
• Employment
• Corporate Secretarial
• Financial Services
• Real Estate
• Public Law
• Asset Management
• Dispute Resolution

Our focus is to help you find the right solution to meet your challenging business needs, whilst adding value to your business.

With a global footprint of seasoned professionals with multidisciplinary capabilities and experience gained on an array of platforms crossing hardware, software, networking through to digital media and distribution, our services can play a pivotol role in your companys' advancement and performance.

Our specialists can help provide the insight, understanding and capabilities to meet the growth opportunities in the new converging and changing landscape.

Strategy

• Focus and stretch your strategic ambitions
• Gain deep insight, supported by rigorous market, economic and financial analysis
• Depth and scale in strategic thinking
• A partner that provides knowledge, expertise and know-how to solve strategic challenges

Strategy is an art. We stretch and focus our clients’ strategic ambitions, whilst ensuring these are grounded in reality and within capabilities. Through our sector and technical knowledge we provide deep insight, supported by rigorous market, economic and financial analysis.

With a team of over 50 professionals, we offer depth and scale in strategic thinking within our chosen areas of business strategy, routes to market, country entry solutions, transactional services, valuations, economics, intellectual property management and risk management.

We work with our clients and bring to bear our knowledge, expertise and know–how to solve strategic challenges, ensure successful execution and provide practical steps to success.

Finance

• Optimise controls and functions
• Standardised methods
• Efficient back office procedures
• Superior output and visibility
• MIS, management account reporting systems
• Software system procurement and implementation

Our finance professionals help support CEOs, CFOs, finance controllers and treasurers to optimise the structure of their finance functions and improve their business performance metrics.

We structure our support to ensure that the challenges of the finance needs are addressed through the appropriate standards of control, efficient back office opportunities and support to the business through insight and challenge.

Operations

• Customer focused
• Optimal cost management
• Value chain transformation
• Agile methodologies and techniques
• Change facilitation and growth management
• MIS reporting, CRM system integration

The demand for customer focused, integrated operations and optimal cost management has never been greater. We support our clients to improve value, reduce waste and costs, and to leave behind ongoing sustainable benefits.

We bring the capabilities in management and process improvement to help companies optimise their operating processes and supply chains. We help our clients transform their key value chain functions, from customer management through to sourcing of services and goods. We apply proven cost management methodologies and techniques to facilitate agile responses to changing conditions and to drive business growth

Technology

• Business enabled
• Maximising value from investment
• Improved processes
• IT architecture and design
• Sourcing and operations management
• Systems: MIS, HR, CRM, Accounts, BackOffice.

Technology enables business transformation and smooth operations. Our professionals ensure you have the right IT for your business and that you are extracting the maximum value from your investments. We provide the skills to deliver improvements in processes, strategy, architecture and design, sourcing, project management and operations management.

People & Change

• Proven strategies and techniques
• Drive people performance
• Implement change
• Skills, structure matrices
• Culture, ethos and ethics
• Development and succession

Getting the best from people can be a key competitive advantage. Business success often hinges on strategic agility and the ability to execute. Our professionals use strategies, processes and techniques to drive performance help people accept, adopt, drive, and sustain change.

Risk & Compliance

• Risk identification and management
• Governance design and implementation
• Legislation review
• Compliance
• Performance and processes

We support our clients in identifying, understanding and managing risks. We also assist businesses in designing and implementing governance and compliance programmes that ensure a business operates within the boundaries of relevant legislation and regulations. This includes building a culture of doing the right thing.

Marketing & Sales

• Experienced professionals, proven track records
• Market knowledge and know-how
• Go to market execution & routes to market
• Managing brand strategies
• New sales channels, channel partner development & country entry

We bring highly experienced marketing professionals, with know-how and proven track records of delivering outstanding results in pressured environments. By knowing our clients and their most relevant issues, we can provide a balanced approach between innovation and reliable, tested strategies. This ensures our recommendations keep businesses ahead of the pack, even in an ever evolving environment.

Non-Executive Advisory Services

• Value through experience and knowledge
• Thought leadership
• Qualified business practitioners
• Goal orientated and success driven
• Strategy, performance, risk and people

Through CooperSummors Non-Executive Advisory Services, many businesses appreciate the added benefits of having the right people on their boards.

Our services help to reinforce board and executive management teams, with complimentary expertise, industry knowledge and business intelligence. In today’s environment of business pressures, legal, regulatory & governance demand, our services facilitate the decision making process that in turn drive corporate competitiveness.

Our people are selected for their extensive business experience, proven ability and know-how. They have the ability, motivation and drive to help identify and execute the most appropriate solutions for your business needs, in key areas such as: Strategy, Performance, Risk and People.

Corporate Finance

CooperSummors Corporate Finance is more than ongoing relationships, funding, timing, flexibility and business understanding – it is about determining the solutions that accurately reflect and meet your business needs and requirements. It is about being a partner in business, complementing and working with you to achieve more, to excel and drive outstanding results.

Our Corporate Finance services are provided as an integrated offering to meet the confidentiality of our clients. Working with CEOs, CFOs, Business Owners and Company Directors, we provide a practical approach to each assignment in order to minimise the complexity whilst protecting the stakeholders

Capital Raising

• Liquidity enhancement
• Balance sheet optimisation
• Senior and mezzanine finance
• Debt advisory and intermediary
• Equity.

Given the current challenging economic climate and unclear future liquidity, many businesses are looking for opportunistic ways to strengthen their balance sheet and enhance cash flow by raising debt and equity capital. Our team of dedicated professionals can provide you with an insightful and tailored advice on the wider market, or specific niche issues. Our team has the experience, knowledge and dedication to find the right solution.

Mergers & Acquisitions

• Target appraisal & evaluation
• Structure & funding
• Process optimisation
• Pre & post integration

Our Mergers and Acquisition teams are comprised of experienced investment bankers, business owners, accountants and financial analysts to give you the best pre and post merger and acquisition advice.

Our teams of professionals will help guide you through the evaluation, structuring, funding, regulatory, integration and operational demands that can undo much of the value created if not managed carefully.

Exit Strategies

• Evaluation & recommendation
• Maximise value
• Realise aspirations
• Execution

We advise on the most appropriate exit strategies for companies, reviewing all the options available and managing the process if required. We maximise exit values by careful evaluation, building and executing strategic exits efficiently and in close co-operation with management.

Banking

• Introductions
• Relationship management
• Bilaterals and syndicates
• Strategic recommendations
• Overseas

Making good banking and liquidity management decisions, from an operational perspective, is essential for virtually any company. Our specialists in banking relationship management can support you in establishing comprehensive bank relationships.

We can help you to build a strategy that will cover your potential requirements over the coming years, even if you currently have no borrowings or business relationships.

Financial Instruments

• Debt structuring
• Liquidity
• Senior & Mezzanine
• Equity
• Asset finance
• Strategic recommendations

We can help guide your business to structure its debt appropriately and can help you find untapped sources of liquidity, enabling you to take advantage of new opportunities and avoid liquidity issues. We provide advice on a variety of sources of finance:

Risk Management

• Analysis and assessment
• Solution implementation
• Trend analysis
• Market change
• Modelling & critical sensitivity
• Strategic recommendations

Risk analysis and assessment is critical to ongoing business success. Our professionals determine business risks and their relative importance. Following risk identification, we provide solutions to mitigate these risks and offer rational explanations, projections and evaluations based on our recommendations. We assist clients to understand risks and project market trends.

Our team uses economic theory and statistical, econometric and financial expertise to tackle some of the most complex and challenging business issues of today.

Combining modelling skills with deep industry knowledge, we provide professional economic advice to management teams across a spectrum of sectors and geographies. Our teams consist of chartered accountants, chartered bankers, business consultants, economists and financial analysts who apply economic rigour and analysis to the business, consumer and regulatory issues.

Loan Syndication

• Release locked-in equity
• Drive higher returns on equity
• Create asset liquidity
• Free cash to re-invest
• Reduce risk exposure
• Return income to investors

CooperSummors Loan Syndication leverages off Corporate Finance, direct access to Debt Market players and strong relationships to provide a comprehensive service, packaged with capital raising.

Providing expertise in structured, corporate and project financings, balance sheet management, restructurings and private placement services we help clients enter the international capital markets and co-ordinate the financing process on their behalf. Loan Syndication helps clients’ create stronger demand for their paper, negotiate finer pricing, superior terms and crucially build key relationships.

Business Horizons provides business leaders with a unique opportunity to drive performance, achieve real growth and ensure the best strategic courses are implemented.

Working closely with ambitious businesses, business leaders, budget controllers and stakeholders, Business Horizons' executives offer a dynamic approach to ongoing development, strategic management and economic growth. A dedicated service is provided on a retained basis over a number of platforms on a weekly, monthly, or quarterly basis to suit the business requirements.

Working closely with venture capital firms, banks, financial institutions and the angel investor community, along with CooperSummors' industry professionals, many businesses have improved regulation, achieved economic development and performance, increased education and skills, realised innovative consumer products and opened new routes to European and Worldwide markets

Enterprise Performance

• Ethos
• Strategic review
• Analysis and assessment
• Projected placement point
• Recommendation and milestones
• Implementation.

Our Enterprise Performance management solutions are central to the strategic agenda of businesses, governments and industries that want to dramatically improve their ability to make informed decisions, organize their businesses, integrate and drive shareholder value.

Our experts work with senior management groups to provide insight and determine viable plans that can be put into practice, providing the experience, knowledge and know how to augment your business, executive teams or complex projects.

Business Recovery

• Early identification of underlying issues
• Practical solutions to deal with increased competition, margin pressures, performance decline and cash constraints
• Intermediation and negotiation
• Implement change
• Realise value

Market downturns, new nimble competitors, disruptive technologies or strategic errors have plunged many businesses into serious financial distress. These challenges can quickly trigger a host of problems that undermine management and the business. 

Business Transformation

• Business productivity alignment
• Innovative thinking
• Management best practices
• Leveraging recognised value
• New technologies and routes to market
• Improved customer service

As a key executive management initiative, our professional management advisory teams help companies transform their existing business models into market leading winners. By aligning business initiatives to their markets, people, processes and technology productivity, market share and shareholder value are enhanced.

Transactional Services

• Deal process, analysis and overview
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Disposals
• Value creation
• Maximising exit opportunities
• Capital markets

Our dedicated professionals bring an impressive compliment of financial, commercial and operational insight to every deal. They deliver industry knowledge, help clients navigate the deal process, provide commercial due diligence and review. 

Valuation & Economics

• Financial modelling
• Tangible and intangible assets
• Financial instruments
• Capital markets
• Valuations and recommendations

We provide financial modelling services and support our clients in their decision making. Our Valuations and Economics specialists provide an extensive range of services.

Our Specialist Services comprise of groups of professionals and industry experts, with a wealth of detailed knowledge and expertise in their respective fields. We are particularly focussed on the following niche sectors, to ensure your business receives the highest quality offering when it most needs it:   

• Legal & Regulatory
• Forensic Services
• Telecoms, Media & Technology
• New Start-ups
• International Growth & Expansion