Declan Williams
Managing Director and Founder of Catalise
Declan has wide ranging experience in the business turnaround market across a number of sectors. This has predominantly involved helping distressed businesses through the most challenging of circumstances, working alongside management, re-structuring professionals, lenders, investors, and other stakeholders. His leadership, proactive approach and negotiation skills have been instrumental in the delivery of a number of successful business turnarounds.
He has a combination of corporate banking and entrepreneurial experience to draw on, having worked for 10 years at HSBC and subsequently owner / managing businesses for 13+ years.
Areas of expertise include;
- Business turnaround and restructuring
- Rapid diagnostic capability - both financial and reviewing other key components of the business
- Crisis management and leadership support
- Stakeholder engagement including high level creditor negotiations, particularly funders and HMRC
- Managing challenging and often complex cash flow situations
- Urgent investment and refinancing
- Business and strategic planning for future growth post recovery
Declan has an MBA and is a member of the Association of MBA's.
Associates and Business Partners
We work with a number of associates and business partners when additional expertise maybe required in any given situation.
Our extensive network includes a number of professional executives and organisations, including legal expertise, accountancy resource, specialist finance brokers, technology services, valuation specialists, and human resource professionals.
We also have access to a large number of lenders and investors, both institutional and private. This can also be critical when financial restructuring is required and urgent new funding and/or investment is needed.