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From business turnaround and valuations to transformation and optimisation, our advisory services cover a broad spectrum of specialisms and added value-drivers for organisations.
Here’s how we can support:
Restructuring services
We provide advice and assistance through our restructuring and insolvency expertise to all types of businesses and organisations encountering financial difficulties.
Forensic services
Our forensic services support the quantification of loss or financial exposure for dispute resolution, fraud, financial investigations and monitoring trustee services.
Corporate finance
From entrepreneurs to established entities, beginners to blue chips, we’re here to advise and support you at every step.
Debt advisory
Whether you’re refinancing or amending existing facilities, raising new finance, undertaking transformational M&A or restructuring existing loans, we can help.
Transaction services
We bring local and, through Oaklins S&W, global expertise for all domestic and cross-border M&A and transactions.
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What are the types of problems advisory can help solve?
Timely solutions
Success means ensuring you get effective solutions in place as quickly as possible. We find tailored approaches that are effective and enduring. Our service lines are combined with commercial acumen to ensure we recommend practical, lasting solutions.
Access to industry specialists
When addressing issues’ root causes, our advisory services can identify problems that require key specialisms. S&W has a range of experts on hand across fraud resolution, economics, M&A, insolvency, valuations, contractual disputes and more.
Data-driven analytics
We use technology to remove complexity and navigate risk when dealing with big data. It unleashes a world of added value and information for leaders. Our data visualisation and dashboards pinpoint problems, identify opportunities and can be live tools to enhance decision-making.
Time-sensitivity
As a business leader, critical tasks can get deprioritised against seemingly urgent, yet low-risk, activity. When an issue takes hold, stakeholder management can use all your time, worsening the impact. Our services ensure clarity, support and bandwidth to deliver critical objectives.
Restructuring services
Restructuring advisory
Practical restructuring advice, helping stakeholders navigate challenges and protect value.
Special situations
Our special situations team steps in early to protect value, restore stability and give control back to our clients.
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Forensic services
Investigations
Discreet, thorough investigations delivering clear findings when scrutiny matters most.
Monitoring trustee services
Independent monitoring trustee services delivering transparency, compliance and stakeholder confidence.
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Unlocking black boxes in legal disclosures
Outside expertise can be crucial for effectively dealing with complex structured data.
Valuations
Financial reporting and fund valuations
Accurate, defensible valuations supporting financial reporting and fund requirements.
Corporate finance
Mergers and acquisitions
Confident end‑to‑end M&A advice, from strategy through to execution, helping you secure value and manage complexity.
Growth capital
Supporting ambitious businesses to raise growth capital that aligns funding, strategy and long‑term objectives.
Lead advisory
Clear, independent lead advisory guiding critical transactions with commercial insight and disciplined execution.
Transaction services
Financial due diligence
Robust financial due diligence, delivering clarity on value, risk and deal‑critical findings.
Sale and purchase agreement advisory
Practical SPA advice to protect value, manage risk and support successful deal outcomes.
View our latest insights on corporate finance and transactions
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S&W expands advisory business with agreement to acquire ClearViewIP
S&W, the leading professional services group, has expanded its offering to clients after reaching an agreement to acquire the global intellectual property advisory firm ClearViewIP.
Economics advisory
Competition services
Independent economic analysis, helping you manage competition risk, respond to scrutiny and achieve robust, defensible outcomes.
Disputes and litigation
Clear, evidence‑based economic thinking, supporting high‑value disputes where precision, credibility and independence matter most.
Regulatory economics and policy
Rigorous economic insight supporting policy design, regulatory compliance and defensible decision‑making in complex regulated environments.
View our latest insights on economic advisory
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