Bank Restructuring

Admiralty’s specialists have had extensive experience managing international multi-branch commercial banks and investment banking operations around the world. These specialists can provide detailed practical experience across the full range of bank management areas.

Specific products have been developed to provide banks with a range of assistance, from simple review and audit of existing systems to complete turnkey installation of bank:

Banking Systems

Admiralty Group has created complete turnkey modules that can be installed directly in a bank or used as templates to modernize existing bank systems. These include:

Credit Systems Treasury Systems Trade Finance Systems

See also the comprehensive Information Technology and Management Information Systems made available by our affiliated company New Technology Banking Systems.

Bank Training

Admiralty Group has developed and offers a comprehensive bank training system. Since this program is offered as distinct modules, client banks may choose to customize their training programs by focusing on particular modules or adopt the entire training system. View outline of training modules.

Capital Markets

Admiralty Group’s specialists have had experience in most of the world's major capital markets. Services include:

  • Reviewing existing corporate capital structure
  • Recommending optimum capital structure
  • Structuring equity issue or private placement
  • Structuring debt issue or private placement
  • Arranging credit rating, if necessary
  • Arranging CUSIP or other securities registration, if necessary
  • Supervising documentation and settlement procedures

Often, clients prefer larger banking firms to handle capital markets issues for them. For these larger, more complex international issues, we will recommend the use of an international firm. In such cases, Admiralty Group can still provide the following valuable services and independent advice to our client, the issuer:

  • Advising in selection of bank, investment bank or syndicate
  • Reviewing recommended structures, terms, conditions and pricing>
  • Supervising documentation and settlement procedures

Corporate Finance

Corporate finance specialists work with clients to establish optimum capital structures and assist in raising debt, equity and quasi-equity capital.

These services may include:

  • Arranging or restructuring loans
  • Raising equity or quasi-equity
  • Merger, acquisition, and divestment
  • Structuring and financing management buy-outs, management buy-ins and leveraged buy-outs
  • Structuring and arranging leases and sale-lease back financings.

Corporate Restructuring

Restructuring of troubled companies or non-performing divisions or operating units may involve a range of services, including:

  • Management advice
  • Strategic planning
  • Development and implementation of business plans
  • Labor and/or product rationalization
  • Downsizing
  • Divestment, spin-off or liquidation
  • Debt rescheduling, debt/equity conversions
  • Equity and capital account restructuring

Divestment

Private sector divestment of assets, subsidiaries or independent operating units, or privatization of state owned assets by government requires a range of financial and legal skills.

Admiralty Group’s specialists can:

  • Value assets and enterprises
  • Recommend and implement value enhancing strategies
  • Prepare assets and enterprises for divestment
  • Liquidate non-viable enterprises
  • Consolidate assets among several non-viable enterprises
  • Evaluate local capital markets
  • Survey potential international investors
  • Identify impediments and recommend practical solutions
  • Involve appropriate multilateral and donor nation agencies
  • Develop suitable capital structure
  • Raise debt and equity

Information Technology and Management Information Systems

Admiralty Group’s principals have many years' experience as Information Technology specialists. Services provided include:

  • Strategic planning
  • Systems analysis and requirements analysis
  • Systems and database design and development
  • Application development and implementation
  • Security and encryption of data and communications
  • Package selection and adaptation
  • Project management and system implementation
  • Post implementation reviews
  • User training and trainer training
  • Systems audit
  • Risk analysis and contingency planning
  • Disaster recovery planning
  • Telecommunications needs analysis

See also New Technology Banking Systems

Investments

Admiralty maintains a regular investment program for its own and international client funds. While it is not a licensed investment manager in the US, it acts as Investment Manager for six German venture capital partnerships of First Global Venture Capital AG, and participated in the organization of Alameda Capital LLC in California. It has operated successful investment programs in Argentina, Armenia, Bulgaria, New Zealand, the UK and the US. It is licensed in Bulgaria and was the first foreign company to be licensed in Armenia.

Admiralty currently invests in US corporate bonds through Mesirow Financial in Chicago, and has arrangements to trade US equities through Charles Schwab, TD Ameritrade, and E*Trade.

Legal

While Admiralty Group is not a law firm, and none of its principals and associates now practices law, several of its senior Directors are lawyers and hold Juris Doctor degrees. The firm's Managing Director has practiced law for the US Department of Commerce and the international law firm of Graham and James. He is a member of the US Federal and State of California Bars. Other Directors are also lawyers with significant experience. This training and experience has given the firm and its specialists a grounding in important areas of:

  • Corporate law
  • Partnership law
  • Joint ventures
  • Contract law
  • Documentation
  • Banking law
  • International law
  • Trade and trade finance law
  • Product liability
  • Labor law
  • Legislation and regulations
  • Debtors' rights and creditors' remedies
  • Export and import laws, regulations and practices.

The firm's principals can often act as an effective intermediary between clients and both the clients' and opposing law firms. In the capacity of independent, experienced commercially astute lawyers, we are often able to streamline structures and documentation, to speed up negotiations and settlements in cases where law firms tend to bog down or run up fees. We can delineate legal requirements and supervise the work of the lawyers. This ensures quality control of documents and transaction structure, and a timely and equitable settlement.

Privatization and Corporatization

Admiralty Group's privatization and corporatization experience began in New Zealand, still regarded as the world's most successful model of public sector reform and privatization. Thereafter, Admiralty adopted that experience in many other countries of the world as privatization and related enterprise restructuring programs swept Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, as well as Africa and Asia. View Admiralty Group's Statement of Qualifications.

Project Finance

Admiralty Group’s principals have extensive experience in project finance around the world in projects as diverse as:

  • Transportation (aircraft, airports, air traffic control equipment, railroads, trucking, road and bridge building, ships, barges, shipyards, and harbors)
  • Mining (bauxite, coal, copper, gold, manganese, nickel)
  • Manufacturing plants and equipment of all types
  • Property (hotels, commercial, industrial, residential)
  • Primary industries (agriculture, horticulture, forestry, food processing)
  • Build-Own-Operate (BOO) and Build-Own-Transfer (BOT) projects
  • Other projects

Financial specialists can provide a range of services in the area of project finance, from seasoned, unbiased advice through to actual implementation of a complete turnkey project.

Public Enterprise Reform

Admiralty Group has extensive experience in public enterprise reform, including privatization, corporatization, and divestment. This experience was developed during New Zealand's successful public sector reform program of the 1980s and expanded in many countries thereafter. View Admiralty Group's Statement of Qualifications for public enterprise reform.

Small and Medium Scale Enterprise (SME) and Micro Finance

Economic development, as well as the success of privatization and public enterprise reform programs, in many countries places special reliance on the development of robust small scale enterprises. Admiralty Group’s specialists can provide a range of services, including:

  • Management advice
  • Strategic advice
  • Developing and implementing business plans
  • Establishing micro credit schemes
  • Small scale rural and urban capital formation
  • Marketing research
  • Developing and implementing marketing plans
  • Developing optimum capital structures
  • Raising debt and equity
  • Developing bank relationships
  • Establishing trade policies and procedures
  • Developing international trading relations
  • Establishing information technology, MIS and EDP functions
  • Recruiting, testing and selecting staff
  • Training (a full range of courses suitable for small-scale businesses.)

Structured Finance and Financial Engineering

Admiralty Group’s financial specialists can provide a number of services in the area of structured finance. This advice can range from practical, experienced, objective advice through to actual implementation of a structured finance. Expertise is available in the areas of:

  • Off-balance sheet financings
  • Securitizations
  • Collateralized borrowings
  • Special purpose corporations, holding companies and trust arrangements
  • Tax effective financings
  • Debt/equity swaps

Training and Education

Admiralty Group, its principals and associates have been involved in training and education at the secondary, tertiary, post graduate and professional levels. A range of standard courses is available, including:

  • Banking
  • Credit and lending
  • Risk analysis
  • Non-performing loans
  • Specialized lending
  • Corporate capital structures
  • Corporate finance
  • Foreign exchange
  • Trade finance
  • Treasury
  • Bank operations
  • Funds management
  • Capital markets
  • Issues of senior bank management
  • Corporate valuation
  • Introduction to computers
  • Computers in financial analysis
  • Computers in business
  • Computer spreadsheets
  • Project management
  • Computer based accounting
  • English as a foreign language
  • Business English
  • Personal development
  • Goal setting
  • Word processing
  • Desktop publishing
  • Negotiating and selling
  • Small business management skills
  • Entrepreneurship
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