Services

Hermes Partners International provides bespoke, value enhancing and risk mitigating solutions during special business situations. We provide guidance, structure and solutions in seemingly chaotic situations. A fundamental strength of our practice is the ability to rapidly identify problem areas, apply the right measures and implement logical solutions, thereby producing exceptional results in a short period of time.

Services

    Special Situations Advisory

We assist clients in unique investment situations, such as the presently challenging geopolitical circumstances. As investors increasingly seek to diversify into new spheres, we evaluate for and assist in such situations, particularly when involving special risk situations in both established as well as emerging markets. Recent advisory cases have covered increasingly relevant new perspectives for issues, such as:

  • Adjusting to a redrawn '3Ds Galaxy of Risk' environment
  • Emerging Markets: "risk structured market entry and management"
  • Rules of the local Business: "to WHOM, really, is the risk exposure?"
  • Gold: "right asset :WRONG places - counterparties - instruments - jurisdictions"
  • Geoeconomics: "Haves-Wants-Needs" - implications - reaching you
  • Vision - Growth - Returns: "might not correlate"
  • Defaults: "the age of SELECTIVE defaults - the demise of pari passu"
  • Global Financial Center Jurisdiction: "it depends who you are!"
  • Capital Management: "Stewards of capital: unable to manage their own - can they manage yours?"

    Structuring & Transaction Services

Primarily for Family Offices and SME', we assist in the establishment and management of structures, platforms and transactions to enable optimal growth of new and/or existing investments. Based on each individual case, we conduct comprehensive risk and opportunity analyses, often with other trusted professionals, aimed to create long lasting advantages. Solely depending on client' request, we can take an active leadership role or remain more passive.

    Turnaround Management

We bring strong financial and operational focus to special situations of businesses. The objectives defined with our clients may be to review investment strategies, improve or restore profitability, repair a balance sheet, accelerate growth, achieve an exit or a combination thereof. We define and execute the most appropriate course of action. As turnaround managers, our business assessments are probing, focused, and deliver the information required to make crucial decisions. We always provide realistic options for dealing with the immediate challenges facing an investment or company and assemble an appropriate action plan. All of our engagements revolve around getting a measurable financial impact.

    Financial Restructurings

We assist companies and financial stakeholders with any aspect of a financial restructuring. We carry out diagnostic reviews and help with the development and implementation of recovery plans. On a case by case basis, we can advise on CRO appointments and provide hands-on restructuring assistance to Boards, owners and funders.

    Workouts and Distressed Situations

We work with exposed investors to take appropriate actions including the establishment of special holding entities to manage, protect and realise postions of problem assets or liabilities over a medium or long term time horizon. We have experience of working out varied assets, listed and direct investments, bonds and loans.