Turnaround Management
Operational turnaround and cash-flow stabilisation for underperforming businesses, assets and divisions.
Image · Turnaround ManagementTurnaround management is the hands-on stabilisation of an underperforming business: fixing operations, containing cash and restoring performance before value erodes. Matchpoint works with owners, boards and lenders on the operational and financial turnaround of stressed businesses, assets and divisions, combining a rapid diagnostic and cash-flow control with the restructuring and capital solutions to fund the recovery.
As part of our Debt practice, Matchpoint Partners has originated and led $2+ billion of transactions across four continents, and every debt mandate is led by a partner, from first call to close.
The central mandate decision. Convert the financial plan into weekly operational actions that restore liquidity, margin and stakeholder confidence. The turnaround office needs authority, reliable data and an explicit cadence.
What capital providers or counterparties will test
Cash leakage, product and customer profitability, working capital, procurement, headcount, asset utilisation, management accountability, delivery milestones and variance against plan.
How the mandate is structured
The programme links liquidity management, operational initiatives, financing and stakeholder communications. Each initiative should have an owner, cash or EBITDA impact, cost and completion date.
Execution priorities
Set the thirteen-week cash baseline, create a small transformation office and review operational and financing milestones against one integrated scorecard every week.
Prepare before approaching the market
- Thirteen-week cash flow
- Initiative register with owner and quantified impact
- Weekly operating and liquidity dashboard
- Stakeholder communication and financing plan
Our role on turnaround management mandates
- Rapid operational and financial diagnostic of the underperformance
- Cash-flow containment, 13-week cash management and liquidity control
- Operational fixes, cost reduction and working-capital release
- Turnaround and value-creation planning with clear milestones
- Restructuring and rescue capital to fund the recovery
Research relevant to this area
Original analysis and decision frameworks from the Matchpoint team.
Turnaround Management — frequently asked questions
Turnaround management is the practical work of stabilising and restoring an underperforming or distressed business: containing cash, fixing operations and rebuilding performance before value is lost. It combines an operational fix with the financial restructuring and capital to support it.
As early as the first signs of sustained underperformance or liquidity stress. The earlier a turnaround starts, the more options remain, and the more value can be preserved for owners, lenders and employees.
A short-horizon, weekly cash forecast that gives a stressed business tight visibility and control over liquidity, so it can prioritise payments, avoid a cash crisis and buy the time a turnaround needs.
Matchpoint leads the turnaround as adviser and can work alongside an interim manager or chief restructuring officer where one is needed, coordinating the operational plan with the financial restructuring and capital.
A credible turnaround plan is what unlocks rescue, special-situations and restructuring capital. Matchpoint builds the plan and arranges the capital together, so stabilisation and funding move in step.
Matchpoint originates senior, mezzanine, hybrid and structured debt from regional banks, international lenders and private credit funds, structured around your transaction. Tickets range from USD 5m to USD 500m+.
Private credit is non-bank lending from specialist funds, typically senior or unitranche, offering speed and flexibility. We maintain relationships with private credit funds active in the GCC and India.
Yes. We structure Sukuk and Shariah-compliant private credit, including blended structures pairing a Sukuk tranche with conventional debt.
Engagements ordinarily combine a retainer with a success fee. Terms are agreed in writing before work begins and calibrated to the mandate’s size, scope and complexity.
Most mandates reach a first term sheet within 30 days, depending on diligence readiness and structure; closing follows once terms are agreed.
A short, confidential scoping call and NDA; we structure the requirement and prepare materials, then run a competitive process across our 5,000+ investor and lender relationships, and negotiate to close — with a partner leading at every step.
Matchpoint Partners is based in the UAE and runs cross-border mandates across the UAE, KSA, India and the UK, with active deal activity in wider Europe, Singapore and the United States.
Matchpoint undertakes corporate finance, financing, M&A and fund-placement mandates from USD 5m upwards, subject to mandate fit, diligence, applicable regulation, capacity and a written engagement. The partner team has originated and led $2+ billion of transactions.
Use the enquiry form, email contact@matchpoint-partners.com, or call/WhatsApp +971 52 345 1119. Every mandate is led by a partner from the very first conversation.
Yes. Confidential information is handled under the engagement terms and any applicable non-disclosure agreement.
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