Meridian's principal point of entry
The most expensive risk in your business is often the one nobody has looked at yet: not the risk you are managing, but the one still sitting unexamined inside a decision you are about to make.
Before you commit to funding, an acquisition, an expansion, an investor, or a change of ownership, Meridian examines the situation independently. For an accepted situation, Meridian undertakes an initial examination and provides a Resolution Blueprint (RBP) without charge. If you then choose to proceed and Meridian agrees to take the matter on, Meridian enters into a paid Situation Room Engagement, undertakes the fuller examination, and delivers a Situation Report (SITREP) within fifteen to twenty working days.
Why it exists
Most principals meet a situation at the moment it demands an answer. An acquisition appears. A bank asks for more promoter money. A shareholder wants out. A market abroad opens, or quietly closes. By then the structure is usually set, and the real choices have already narrowed.
What was never examined does not disappear. It surfaces later, inside the transaction, when the cost of discovering it is highest and the room to correct it is smallest. The Situation Room exists for the stage before that.
Structure before capital.
Why an independent look, even when the deal looks right
A serious financial decision can look perfectly right and still contain something that has gone unnoticed. The lender has examined it from the lender's side. The investor, from the investor's. The adviser has structured the transaction. But who has independently examined the situation as a whole?
The cost and effort of a proper independent examination are small against the potential cost of proceeding, on a flawed assumption, into a major transaction, financing, acquisition, expansion or ownership decision. If everything is right, you proceed with greater confidence. If something isn't, isn't it better to know now?
Scope
New capacity, new markets, diversification, and the funding and structural questions each raises.
Succession, the induction or exit of investors, and generational transition in family businesses.
The design of an appropriate capital structure, and funding strategy before lenders or investors are approached.
Market entry, corridor structuring and the movement of capital and interests across the corridor.
Liquidity pressure, refinancing, and businesses constrained by their structure or obligations.
Acquisitions, mergers, strategic investments and partnerships, examined before terms are committed.
Complex or unusual circumstances that do not fit a standard template and require independent assessment.
Any significant situation genuinely requiring structured, independent examination. The common thread is that the decision is a major one.
How Meridian examines a situation
The Resolution Blueprint (RBP) is the decision architecture arising from Meridian's initial examination of an accepted situation. It sets out what appears to require resolution, the principal constraints, the realistic alternatives, and the recommended route forward. It is provided without charge, regardless of size, and creates no obligation on either side. It is a substantive initial work product, not an informal consultation.
From there, the decision is yours. If you choose to proceed and Meridian agrees to take the matter on, a Situation Room Engagement follows, a standalone professional assignment on agreed terms, producing within fifteen to twenty working days the Situation Report (SITREP): the record of what the fuller examination established.
The RBP establishes the route forward.
The SITREP establishes the truth of the situation.
Meridian does not make the decision for you. It gives you an independent basis on which to make it, including, where warranted, the conclusion that the proposition should not presently proceed.
How it proceeds
Meridian is approached in writing, through the enquiry form; there is no telephone line. Every submission is reviewed, and only situations Meridian is well placed to examine are accepted.
A mutual confidentiality undertaking is in place before anything sensitive is exchanged, and the work itself is conducted entirely online, with management continuing to run the business throughout.
Tell us what you are facing
Describe the situation in your own words. It does not need to be polished. The finder will surface related situations and a question worth asking before you proceed.
Submit your situation
If you are approaching a significant decision and would value an independent examination before you act, submit the situation for consideration.
A brief first submission is enough: the background to the business, a description of the situation, the outcome sought, the approximate size and countries involved, and any existing advisers or lenders. None of this need be confidential at this stage.
Every submission is reviewed. Where Meridian accepts a situation, the initial Resolution Blueprint is provided without charge. Any further Situation Room Engagement begins only if you subsequently choose to proceed and Meridian agrees to take the matter on.
Submit Your Situation