Corporate Recovery/Turnaround
Seabury professionals have provided advisory services to many aviation related companies including airlines, OEMs, lenders, lessors and investors in aviation companies around the world. Seabury advisory services include advice relating to financial restructuring, business plan development and analysis, investor and/or creditor due diligence, interim management, litigation support as well as operational revitalization. Many Seabury professionals worked for major airlines and as a result understand the complexities of operating a successful and financially sound airline in an extremely competitive environment.
Financial Restructuring Advisory Services
Seabury is the pre-eminent financial advisor to worldwide airlines who have successfully undergone or are currently undergoing a complete operational and financial restructuring.
Corporate advisory services
- Strategic business right-sizing
- Business plan development and implementation
- Creditor Negotiations
- In-court (Chapter 11) and out-of-court advice
- Contract optimization and vendor negotiations
- Cash preservation
- Crisis ManagementPlan of reorganization development and implementation
Business Plan Development
Whether part of a restructuring exercise or due diligence assignment, Seabury professionals have developed interactive financial models on behalf of passenger airlines, cargo airlines including divisional spin-offs for catering, maintenance, frequent flyer and ground handling operations. These financial models create income statements, balance sheets and cash flow statements pursuant to various scenarios and are tailored to the client’s level of detail requirements. Proprietary revenue forecasting tools are used to derive detailed (or higher level) route by route profitability analysis as well as cost requisite drivers.
Seabury has advised numerous airlines in the development of business plans, budgets and models as well as potential investors or creditors to airlines.
Operational experts relating to:
- Flight Operations
- Airports
- Cargo
- Maintenance
- Information Technology
- Marketing Operations including global distribution systems and reservations
- Catering 
Other key services are:
Interim Management
Seabury professionals have been seconded to airlines in temporary, interim management roles as well as board of directors positions. These assignments have typically been related to interim management positions for Chief Financial Officer, Chief Restructuring Officer, Treasurer and Chief Operations Officer.
Litigation Support
Seabury professionals have also provided advice, analysis and expert witness testimony related to litigation and corporate disputes. These assignments generally included expert advice, professional reports and court related witness testimony and requisite depositions.
Operational Revitalization
Seabury professionals have been recruited from major airlines for their in depth operational experience relating to departmental performance metrics, staffing models, organizational structures, vendor contracts and operational efficiency.
Due Diligence Services
Seabury has been retained by many prominent investment firms to perform due diligence on behalf of airlines involved in restructuring, capital raising, merger/acquisition/divestiture activities or other corporate finance activities.
