Restructuring Consulting from WED+: We support medium-sized companies, shareholders, banks, tax advisors, and investors nationwide in complex restructuring and turnaround situations—on-site at the company. Our approach combines in-depth analysis, robust restructuring concepts in accordance with IDW S6, and consistent operational implementation. If necessary, we assume direct management responsibility as a CRO or interim manager (CEO/CRO/CFO).
Understanding restructuring. Preparing decisions. Implementing measures.
Companies facing a crisis in earnings, liquidity, or strategy need quick insight into their financial situation and a realistic path back to sustainable competitiveness. What matters most is not the report itself, but whether the recommended measures are actually implemented within the company.
WED+ provides comprehensive support throughout this process—from the Quick Check and integrated planning, through the restructuring and turnaround plan, to operational implementation. Our consultants bring management experience to the table and understand how restructuring works in day-to-day business operations.
Earnings, liquidity, business model, planning, scenarios, and red flags—as part of an Independent Business Review or Quick Check.
Feasibility of restructuring, a restructuring plan in accordance with IDW S6, and a robust action plan for banks and shareholders.
Performance, working capital, costs, organization, and consistent implementation of measures within the company.
Temporary management responsibilities and oversight of complex restructuring programs.
Restructuring success depends on speed and data quality. WED+ uses its own AI-powered consulting platform that digitally integrates analysis, planning, and action management—a capability not found in this form among traditional restructuring consultancies.
Faster transparency: Financial data , plans, and scenarios are processed using AI—the initial analysis is available in days rather than weeks.
Integrated Planning: Profit, balance sheet, and cash flow planning—including a 13-week cash flow forecast—in a consistent model that can be updated at any time.
Initiative and Project Management: All initiatives, responsibilities, and impacts on a single platform—with an AI assistant for status reports, meeting minutes, and bank reporting.
IBR- or IDW-S6-compliant: Analyses and documentation meet the requirements of banks, shareholders, and appraisers.
The result: more time for operational decisions and implementation within the company, less effort spent on data collection and reporting—all while ensuring full confidentiality of your company data.
WED+ does not merely provide advisory support; upon request, it also assumes operational responsibility. The focus is on measurable actions, clear lines of responsibility, and consistent reporting to management, shareholders, and investors.
Analyze the business model, earnings, liquidity, financing, and organization.
Identify and implement short-term liquidity and earnings levers.
Define a viable business model and financing structure.
Create a prioritized program that includes responsibilities, a timeline, and expected outcomes.
Address banks, shareholders, investors, and other stakeholders in a structured manner.
Track progress and goal achievement through robust action reporting.
Management: Rapid transparency, options for action, implementation capacity, and relief from day-to-day operations.
Shareholders: A solid basis for decision-making regarding financing, performance, and restructuring options.
Banks, tax advisors, and financial institutions: Transparent planning, IBR and IDW S6 frameworks, actions, and reporting.
Private Equity and Investors: Performance Improvement, Portfolio Restructuring, IBR, and CRO Support.
Attorneys and Insolvency Experts: Operational and Business Management Support for Legal Restructuring Processes.
Restructuring takes place within the company—not at the consultant’s desk. WED+ can be on-site anywhere in Germany within a few days and is familiar with the regional financing landscapes: savings banks, cooperative banks, state banks, and the state-owned development and guarantee banks, as well as local restructuring attorneys, insolvency administrators, and tax advisors.
Our regional areas of focus in restructuring consulting include:
Consulting services provided by a team with many years of experience in restructuring, turnaround, and transformation—including in management roles.
Individual strategies that are tailored to the specific challenges and goals of the company.
Support ranging from analysis through the restructuring plan to operational implementation.
Clear communication, well-founded expert opinions, and transparent recommendations for action for all stakeholders.
Focus on long-term stability, value enhancement and competitiveness.
Access to relevant investors, financial partners and industry contacts.
The sooner you act, the greater your room to maneuver. Typical triggers include declining results, tight liquidity, covenant breaches, financing discussions with banks, or shareholders’ desire for a reliable assessment of the situation. At the very latest, if liquidity can no longer be reliably planned for the coming months, external support should be sought.
A restructuring consultancy like WED+ provides clarity on the financial situation, identifies the causes of the crisis, develops a restructuring plan with specific measures, and oversees its implementation. Upon request, WED+ can also assume operational responsibility—up to and including the role of CRO.
Restructuring refers to the strategic, operational, and financial realignment of a company—even outside the context of an acute crisis. Turnaround describes the process of overcoming an existing corporate crisis and restoring the company’s competitiveness and ability to service its debt, often based on a turnaround plan in accordance with IDW S6.
A restructuring plan in accordance with IDW S6 is typically required by banks and lenders when loans are to be extended, deferred, or reissued in a crisis situation. It demonstrates the company’s ability to restructure and provides legal certainty for all parties involved.
An IBR is an independent analysis of a company’s financial situation, planning, and ability to service its debt. It is typically commissioned by lenders and serves as a basis for decisions regarding further financing—faster and more streamlined than a full IDW S6 report.
A Chief Restructuring Officer temporarily assumes responsibility for the company’s restructuring program: liquidity management, implementation of measures, reporting, and communication with banks, shareholders, and investors. He relieves the burden on management and ensures that the implementation proceeds at a steady pace and is carried out with a sense of commitment.
Yes. WED+ is ready to go nationwide within a few days—as a restructuring consultant, to develop a turnaround plan in accordance with IDW S6, or as a CRO or interim manager working directly within the company. From our offices in Aachen and Düsseldorf, we can be on site particularly quickly in North Rhine-Westphalia; details about our restructuring consulting services in NRW can be found on the regional page.
Yes. We see ourselves not only as concept developers but also as implementation partners. Our consultants work alongside the company on the initiatives, manage the program, and, if necessary, take on management or interim roles.
