Experienced Guidance, When You Need It
Experienced Guidance, When You Need It
For the past fifteen years, financial markets have been supported by ultra-low interest rates and, more recently, post-pandemic fiscal stimulus. During this period, lenders provided funds to levered transactions at higher debt multiples, with fewer and fewer protective covenants. However, higher interest rates and tightened financial conditions are starting to stress many assets. Overlevered companies may be unable to refinance, driving defaults and potential losses.
Assets acquired during this period of ultra-low interest rates may, therefore, pose hidden risks to a portfolio. Many professional investors in today’s market have never experienced the challenges of a credit cycle that removes liquidity and drives defaults and bankruptcies in previously healthy businesses.
Astute investors will act now to evaluate these rising risks from higher interest rates, looking to identify early and manage appropriately potentially troubled investments to protect portfolio value.
We bring our extensive experience investing successfully through many credit cycles to help clients identify and manage hidden risks, maximize value in their portfolios and individual problem assets, and take advantage of new opportunities in challenging markets.
Independent Analysis of Existing Portfolio Risk:
We can perform a thorough, independent analysis of clients’ investments in public and private debt and equity, either held directly, through funds, or through structured vehicles, to identify risks for potential loss.
Active Monitoring of At-Risk Assets:
We can closely monitor at-risk assets for signs of rising distress, either as an external advisor to our clients or in a company-specific role, such as a member of a management committee or board of directors.
Value Recapture:
We can provide insight and analysis on problem assets and develop targeted and creative solutions and strategies to reclaim value, drawing on our extensive experience investing in troubled assets and a vast network of industry contacts, including funding sources.
Evaluating New Investments:
We can assist our clients in evaluating new investments, such as those derived from co-investment agreements.
Our principal, William Seibold, has successfully invested in the high yield, equity, leveraged loan, and distressed debt markets in the US and Europe since 1992, generating significant risk-adjusted returns for firms such as Soros Fund Management and ING Barings. Mr. Seibold’s experience investing through multiple credit cycles brings a proven, credit-oriented investment perspective, providing creative solutions and adding value for our clients and their analytical processes.
We can confidentially utilize this experience and our extensive network of industry contacts to help investors, including family offices, investment funds, pensions, and endowments, identify and manage their investment risks and maximize the value in their existing portfolios and individual problem assets.
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