LAVAN Advisory · Capital & Investment Readiness
Ready to be examined before you are asked.
For businesses preparing to engage lenders, strategic partners or investors, and wanting to know what they will be asked before the conversation begins.
When this is the right engagement
Four situations we are asked into.
A raise or a facility is planned
Capital is needed within the year and the business has not been through diligence before.
Earlier conversations stalled
Interest was real, then diligence slowed and stopped without a clear reason.
Records are not in one place
Financials, contracts and registrations exist but are scattered, inconsistent or out of date.
Governance is informal
Ownership, board practice and controls work in practice but are not documented.
Scope
What the work covers.
An engagement draws on the workstreams the question needs. The scope is agreed in writing before anything begins.
- 01
Financial readiness
Accounts, management reporting and reconciliations brought to a standard an outsider can rely on.
- 02
Commercial viability assessment
An honest view of the business case as a lender or investor will read it.
- 03
Documentation gap analysis
What a diligence process will request, set against what exists today.
- 04
Scenario modelling
How the business performs if revenue, costs or timing move against the plan.
- 05
Governance readiness
Ownership, decision-making and controls, documented and made current.
- 06
Investor-material preparation
The documents and the answers, prepared so that the first meeting is not the first test.
Approach
How the engagement runs.
Four phases. Each ends with something leadership can read, challenge and use.
- 01
Assess
Examine the business as a capital provider would, and record what they would find.
OutputReadiness diagnostic
- 02
Close the gaps
Prioritize what must be fixed before any approach, what can be fixed alongside it, and what should simply be disclosed.
OutputImprovement plan and documentation roadmap
- 03
Model
Build the financial model and the scenarios that show how much capital, for what, and what it returns.
OutputFinancial model and risk assessment
- 04
Prepare
Assemble the materials and rehearse the questions, including the uncomfortable ones.
OutputInvestor materials
Deliverables
What you leave with.
Readiness work prepares a business to be examined. It is not a promise of funding, and LAVAN does not guarantee any lending or investment outcome.
- Readiness diagnostic
- Where the business stands against what capital providers examine.
- Financial model
- An integrated model with stated assumptions and scenarios.
- Risk assessment
- The risks an investor will raise, and the business’s answer to each.
- Improvement plan
- Gaps in order of priority, with owners and dates.
- Documentation roadmap
- Every document diligence will request, and its status.
Where we begin
Five questions we will ask you.
You do not need the answers before we speak. Knowing which ones are hard to answer is where the work starts.
- 01Could a stranger reconcile your management accounts to your bank statements?
- 02Who owns the company, exactly, and where is that documented?
- 03What would an investor find in diligence that you would rather explain first?
- 04How much capital, for what, and what does it return?
- 05What happens to the plan if revenue comes in a fifth lower?
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