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BUSINESS PLAN DEVELOPMENT
  • Strategic direction analysis and risk management
  • Cost identification and forecasting
  • Firm positioning analysis and strategic development
  • Business line analysis and development
  • New product market analysis
  • Capital investment analysis
    BROAD NETWORK OF CONTACTS
    • From the shop floor to the C-Suite
    • From the largest producers to the smallest independent raw material provider
    • From most of the steel producing companies around the world
    MARKET INTELLIGENCE GATHERING
    • Financial database development and analysis
    • Data collection system validation and governance
    CAPITAL MARKETS ADVISORY
    • Capital structure analysis and planning
    • Cash flow generation analysis
    • Asset valuation
    • Chinese Wall due diligence trips
    • Project finance management
    • Greenfield/brownfield business model development
    • Roadshow materials production
    • Venture capital identification and solicitation
    • Evaluation & enrichment of investor relations program
    TAILORED STRATEGIES
    •  Board presentation preparation
    • Governance oversight evaluation
    • Ability to serve both mid-size and multi-national companies

     

    MARKET FORECASTING
    • Supply/demand trend forecasting and pricing analysis
    • Metallics balance identification by raw material segment
    NEGOTIATION SUPPORT
    • Trade relations
    • Freight & logistics
    • Take-or-pay contracts
    • Conference programming
    • Executive placement
    • Expert testimony
    PRODUCT DELIVERABLES
    • In-depth reports
    • Summary reports
    • PowerPoint presentations
    • Excel databases
    • Supporting graphs and tables
    • E-mail and web-based products
    PROJECT HISTORY
    • In-depth executive report on the electrical steel market to support a capital investment decision.
    • DSO iron ore project development in Central America in preparation for potential capital investment.
    • Debriefing and training session with international steel producer’s sales department.
    • Strategic advisory work with market segment data providers.
    • Developed, programmed and launched WSD’s Steel Success Strategies (SSS) Turkey conference, 2013.
    • Conference programming for SSS London 2009 to 2011.
    • NABE webinar presentation on the impact to the steel industry from the shale gas discoveries.
    • Expert witness, Singapore tribunal 2011, regarding Philippine mill start-up failure due to lack of proper capitalization.
    • Expert witness report preparation Egyptian court for a senior executive jailed for corruption 2012, Singapore tribunal over capitalization dispute 2011, USA arbitration for a major mill in a breach of contract dispute 2010.
    • Co-ordinated with WSD’s Director of Chinese Research to produce the Chinese Core Report from 2009 to 2011.
    • In-depth market based reports on the global slab market, the USA pipe market, and the MENA bar market.
    • Development of WSD’s Cyclone integrated and EAF mill cost models and report.
    • Development of WSD’s Steel Thermometer chart series and report.
    • Banking studies for SeverCorr, Columbus, MS, an EAF-based electrical steel mill, a next generation micro-rebar mill and a silicon metal company (report never completed), USA.
    • Facility review and analysis for capital investment at Zaporizhstal, Ukraine.
    • Acting CFO and pre-bank financing business planning for Nusantara, Malaysia.
    • Pre-banking business planning through feasibility study including preliminary equipment engineering for Minnesota Iron & Steel, Eveleth, MN, USA.
    • Prepared Boston Market profile for acquisition financing, resurrecting a dead over-shopped deal and ultimately was outbid by McDonald’s, Denver, CO, USA.
    • Privatization of Huta Katowice, Poland.
    • On the M&A team for the sale of 3 apparel companies and a dialysis company, USA.
    • On the deal team for 12 IPOS, 7 Secondary Offerings & 2 Private Placements, USA.