Assessing Damages for Breach of Contract

FTI Consulting’s Karthik Balisagar and Tim Battrick authored a chapter for the fourth edition of Global Arbitration Review’s “The Guide to Damages in International Arbitration” on the assessment of damages for breach of contract. Contracting parties usually expect to obtain an economic benefit from the contracts that they enter. Where those contracts are breached, the […]

A Tale of Two Crowns

Coronaviruses are named for the crown-like spikes on their surface. The combination of the “Two Crowns” – COVID-19 alongside the return of Crown Preference – will result in a significantly more material impact than was originally intended, given the COVID-19 VAT deferral scheme which has resulted in over £28bn of cumulative VAT deferrals. In this […]

Agribusiness Turnaround Solutions

FTI Consulting has a dedicated Agribusiness team that is highly experienced in assisting family farming businesses and their stakeholders, successfully deal with financial and operational issues. They genuinely understand the broader challenges of the sector and the difficult situations faced by many family farming businesses. Our Agribusiness specialists assist clients in addressing a range of […]

High Grade Financial Management for Mining Businesses

Our mining finance specialists bring strategic insight and practical understanding to the financial and commercial optimisation of mining businesses. With an appreciation of orebody value and knowing “what good looks like” in mine financial and commercial systems, our experts deliver pragmatic solutions to drive business improvement. Experience To Support Your Business Improvement  With decades of […]

COVID-19 Safe Harbour – I just spent six months in a leaky boat…

No one expected these immortal words by Split Enz to be so relevant during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, that is exactly how some directors may be left feeling regarding the requirements to qualify for protection from trading while insolvent under the COVID-19 Safe Harbour provisions. NAVIGATING COVID-19 When COVID-19 hit Australia, it created a crisis […]

FTI Consulting South Africa

FTI Consulting is an independent global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organisations manage change, mitigate risk and resolve disputes: financial, legal, operational, political & regulatory, reputational and transactional.

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SAP S4/HANA Driven Finance Transformation

Chief Financial Officers of businesses run on SAP are under pressure to move to SAP S4/HANA in response to a maintenance cut-off for their existing SAP Enterprise Central Component (ECC) implementations. When SAP launched S4/HANA they announced that support for SAP ERP 6.0, SAP Customer Relationship Management 7.0, SAP Supply Chain Management 7.0, wand SAP […]

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Why the sudden drive for Liquidity and how to respond?

Stabilise by determining Cash Flow demands, strengthening the Balance Sheet and lowering the break-even point When the COVID-19 lockdown regulations unexpectedly disrupted ‘receipts’, whilst leaving ‘disbursements’ unscathed, business focus rapidly shifted to ensuring healthy operating liquidity. Why the sudden drive for Liquidity and how do we respond?

Construction & Infrastructure Advisory Services

Our construction and infrastructure specialists have decades of experience having advised on some of the world’s largest and most complex construction matters involving project performance, disputes and operational or financial distress. Leveraging our local and global expertise we provide a breadth of services tailored to the client’s individual situation across every stage of the construction […]

Retail Today: How to Manage COVID-19 Disruption and Make It to the Other Side

Australian retailers have been adapting to a changing landscape for some time, including responding to unforeseen events such as last summer’s bushfires. The enormous disruption of COVID-19 is the final obstacle that many retailers will struggle to navigate. Few, if any, will have planned for such an event that for many has closed the entire […]

Safe harbour protection for boards and management

The safe harbour provisions of the Corporations Act are there to provide directors with the ‘breathing space’ to restructure businesses outside of formal insolvency, providing protection from insolvent trading liabilities should the restructuring be unsuccessful. Our experts have an exceptional track-record of guiding boards and management through difficult circumstances.

Business Unusual for South African Private Equity

The widespread disruption caused by the Coronavirus pandemic has led to ‘business unusual’ for many companies in South Africa as they respond to new challenges in an unpredictable and rapidly changing operating environment. Private Equity Investors and portfolio companies must take this new reality into account, not only for their day-to-day operations, but in their […]

Retail chains, Watch Works and Cobbler Plus, saved

Tough retail market conditions have resulted in a number of recent high-profile collapses. These conditions were the same issues facing Watch Works Australia and Cobbler Plus Services when the Director appointed FTI Consulting as Voluntary Administrators.

Weathering the COVID-19 storm: How the construction services industry can fight back

COVID-19 is battering the already weakened construction industry. Construction companies not only need to respond rapidly to the current situation, but also need to draw longer term plans to adjust to the ‘new normal’ post COVID-19. In this latest piece of emerging thinking from our EMEA Business Transformation team, we explore how the industry has […]

South Africa Lockdown

FTI Consulting’s South Africa leadership team share their appreciation with the practice for remaining resilient and supportive during the South African COVID-19 lockdown.

The New Normal: How business could transform post COVID-19

The Coronavirus pandemic is having a radical impact on business operating models and ways of working. Employees are adapting and finding new ways to interact with colleagues, customers and suppliers. Technology has enabled flexible remote working for people at a scale never previously tested and has provided new routes to market. Business continuity has been […]

Value-driven restructuring

Our experienced team is skilled at engineering and executing formal and informal solutions to maximise value from distressed or insolvent companies. Whether it’s providing an in-depth turnaround plan to drive value in a restructure, or supporting clients in more distressed situations on how to move forward with a sale or exiting the business.

For further information please contact Linda Bertolissio or Riina Rintanen.