Maintaining and improving credit ratings has become an extremely important issue in corporate funding strategy. Credit ratings are important to many of our clients as an external assessment of their creditworthiness which will have an impact in terms of perception versus comparable companies and potentially their cost of funding.
Should unrated clients seek to enter into a formal rating process, we are able to support them through the due diligence and credit positioning elements as well as overall project management. We assess the likely outcome of a credit ratings process to support funding options advice or debt capital raising/refinancing transactions.
Our experienced team build robust, transparent financial models covering all circumstances and across a wide range of sectors. We have helped many clients improve their dialogue with rating agencies and regulators and offer a detailed and flexible menu of services to meet the rating-related needs of a wide range of clients. Our approach is to start with a clear understanding of the situation and design a bespoke model using proven methodologies and techniques. The advantages of our models include creating outputs and usability that are designed specifically for the user, as well as providing the flexibility of assumptions to perform sensitivity analysis.
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Our experts partner with clients on corporate planning, providing perspective not only on immediate value and impact, but on long-term implications. We work closely with management and other advisers to leverage and complement their knowledge and ensure maximum impact, and actively support implementation and skill building.