Debt advisory

Debt advisory refers to advisory services that support companies with structuring and securing capital. The goal is to find the best financing option or most sustainable financing strategy, to optimise funding, minimise risks and achieve financial goals.

Advisory also includes assistance with financial restructuring when times are more difficult for the company.

Debt advisory can include a variety of services, including:

a)        Structuring of financing – advice on structuring existing financing

b)        Negotiating loan terms – support with negotiating loans or bonds with banks or other financial institutions

c)        Financial reorganisation – support with restructuring or a crisis: negotiating requested or necessary modifications to agreements, e.g. in the event of a breach of contract

d)        Advice on alternative sources of funding – recommendations on alternative financing options, such as factoring, asset-backed securities and other forms of financing

e)        Investment and growth finance, including for inorganic growth (acquisitions)

f)         Rating advisory – the focus here is on advisory surrounding the company’s credit rating/creditworthiness. Advisory may focus on support with an initial external rating or on giving advice for and internal rating by a financing partner. This is a matter of reviewing the existing rating and pointing out potential to optimise or improve creditworthiness and interest conditions. Grant Thornton debt advisory possesses a BaFin-licenced rating tool, which many credit institutions use themselves.

Every company that has financing needs. We advise typical companies, family-run companies, listed companies, private equity, family offices and businesses undergoing restructuring. 

Our experienced debt advisory team is made up of financing experts, who will give you independent, specific and value-creating advice on every financing project. This allows you to profit from a professionally conducted and structured financing process and, if necessary, take a considerable load off your internal resources. 

By conducting a competitive bidding process, we also achieve the best conditions on the market in terms of pricing and other key contract components. This allows you to profit from our many years of expertise with negotiations and from our extensive network, which maximises the likelihood of the success/financing security of your project.

Our team is made up of experts with many years of experience and extensive knowledge of local debt markets and sectors, so that our advisory covers all types of financing instruments and capital financing.

We typically advise companies, private equity companies and family offices on refinancing, LBOs, and acquisition financing, factoring and leasing, amending loan agreements and conditions as well as everything to do with ratings (rating advisory). 

Our advice is independent and in the client’s interests. Our goal is to structure and implement a long-term and viable financing strategy for our clients that fully takes into account the issues involved in the business strategy and budgeting. To do this we call on our large, international network to find the best fitting financing partner and options for you.  

As experienced debt advisors, in our projects we always act in a customer-driven way and adapt the scope of our service in every project to our customers’ individual concerns.

We can assist with all aspects of financing projects or individual ones during the course of a project as required. We often act for our clients in the background as a sounding board for individual issues that come up in a financing process or for general financing issues.

Everything we do is individually agreed with the customer before the start of the project and can be modified during consultation at any time. This is how we guarantee our customers maximum flexibility at all times.

By organising a competitive bidding process, we ensure you will get the best conditions available on the market – for both pricing and the other main components of the agreement. Alongside the cost savings, we particularly focus on drafting agreements that are economically beneficial. This is how we ensure that you have enough room to manoeuvre over the long term and are set for the future.