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Our advisory services cover governance, risk, compliance, and transaction advisory. We support businesses of all sizes, nature, and in all stages of their lifecycle. Our services include:

Company Setup and Incorporation

We provide companies, Joint ventures, and other legal bodies setup and registration services in Pakistan, UAE, Oman, and Lebanon.

Liquidation and Insolvency

We help liquidation by presenting our self for the appointment of provisional managers or official liquidators. We are currently in process of our nomination in the panel of official liquidators as required by section 315 (1) of the Companies Act 2017.

Internal Audit

We undertake internal audit functions for both listed and non-listed clients as required by the Code of Corporate Governance.

Regulatory Compliance reviews

We undertake regulation-specific compliance reviews to help those charged with governance of companies to discharge their duties in these aspects properly.

Internal controls and risk management

We provide a compilation of risk registers, design relevant internal controls, and help in their implementation and effectiveness.

Cost optimization

We undertake the cost and works studies to optimize cost and reduce wastages. We also help in determining target costs and setting up the system for activity-based costing.

Budgets and Projections

We help in the preparation of yearly budgets. We also help in the preparation of project-specific projections.

IFRS Adoption and Compliance

International Financial Reporting Standards are a globally agreed set of accounting and financial reporting rules. We help businesses to adopt IFRS for the first time if they have been using some other financial reporting framework earlier, we also help management in adopting specific IFRS standards and verifying its compliance to existing standards.

Transaction compliance

Our transaction-specific advisory takes into account the legal view i.e. compliance of relevant laws and the financial view of the transaction.    

Financial Due diligence

We undertake financial due diligence (buyer side) to help achieve assurance on unforeseen financial impacts, unrecorded liabilities etcetera. This gives a potential user of the report a limited assurance of the financial health of the entity.

Business valuation

We provide a valuation for unlisted companies, product lines, or a constituent part of the business.

Corporate business plans

We help management define its vision and strategy and prepare a plan to achieve the mission. We also undertake turnaround plans for financially sick units. We also help in SWOT analysis, and integrated business plans including all aspects of technology, legal, organizational structure, marketing strategy, and product lifecycle.

Business restructuring

We help businesses in restructuring – may it be due to internal, external, or technical factors. Our services include determination of optimum structure, help deployment of people, realignment of tasks, creation of new culture, and coordination between different elements of the organization to achieve the desired objective of reorganization.

Feasibility studies

We undertake financial feasibility studies. In required we can also help in market research. We also undertake operational and market research to back the feasibility with the most reliable assumptions and assumptions.

Policies, procedures, and Process

We help companies compile policies and procedure manuals for Finance, HR, IT etcetera.