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Performance Improvement

Analyze, Act, Accelerate.™

Now more than ever, private equity investors, savvy board members and enlightened corporate management are recognizing that trouble must never be the only catalyst for change, and that performance improvement is more than just a means to a turnaround. It is about working with boards of underperforming businesses, augmenting and collaborating with management to improve earnings and cash, and helping companies to quickly recover when they have missed earnings or are experiencing tightened liquidity.

We see true performance improvement as a process of renewal, working for private equity investors and boards, to actively drive the top and bottom lines of a business forward — delivering EBITDA improvement, and improvements to cash flow and working capital.

Alvarez & Marsal's Analyze, Act, Accelerate™philosophy is a hands-on, activist approach to affecting positive change to people, processes and operations. Working alongside existing management or through more direct intervention as interim managers or as a catalyst and conscience for change, A&M's performance improvement teams release locked-up value, driving earnings and cash to the bottom line. We help seize opportunities and produce results — in the face of economic headwinds and even when the company has the wind at its back.

Our Performance Improvement professionals draw on A&M's global capabilities to maximize revenue and align products, offerings and customers to maximize growth opportunities. We focus on driving tight control of direct costs, improving the value and supply chain of the business, while optimizing general and administrative costs and other overhead. The A&M team helps clients to improve cash conversion by bringing a unique focus on better working capital management, assessing tax strategies and financing plans.

Our people are drawn from operational, advisory and finance backgrounds with broad experience throughout the corporate lifecycle and maintain a focus on leadership, human capital, incentives and execution in every assignment — whether playing active roles in delivering high quality due diligence, 100 day plans or post-acquisition activities, and in periods of stress where A&M's rock solid execution capabilities bring maximum value.

In every case, though, it’s about accelerating results.