Advisory Services — Strategic Expertise for Every Stage
From your first funding round to a landmark acquisition — and every turnaround, investment call and dispute in between — our cross-functional advisors help you decide with clarity and act with confidence.
Virtual Advisor's Business Advisory Services combine business consultancy, M&A facilitation, financing arrangements and advisory, business restructuring, forensic and dispute resolution, capital budgeting and investment decision support, and foreign trade advisory — giving growth-stage Indian companies a single, cross-functional team for every major strategic and financial decision they face.
- Business Consultancy & M&A Facilitation
- Financing Arrangements & Advisory
- Business Restructuring
- Forensic & Dispute Resolution
- Capital Budgeting & Foreign Trade Advisory
Experience where the stakes are highest
The soundest M&A thesis or restructuring plan creates no value until it is executed and integrated properly. As your business grows, the questions get bigger — how to fund the next stage, whether to acquire or merge, how to restructure for resilience, and where to invest scarce capital for the greatest impact.
Our advisory practice brings together experienced leaders across finance, strategy, law and technology to work alongside you as a genuine sparring partner. We help you weigh the options, quantify the trade-offs and move decisively — becoming, in the truest sense, your strategic partner for growth.
Good ideas need good strategy
The truth is that having a good idea and understanding how the business world works are entirely different things. You could have the most innovative ideas for your business, but you would still fail to succeed without proper business strategies.
From evolving customer expectations and emerging technologies to more and more entities venturing into every segment, businesses today are more at risk of disruption due to competition than ever before. Whether you are experiencing challenges with company culture, internal processes or need a new strategy to reflect your envisioned future, we are here to help you adapt to today's market dynamics and keep competing — no matter the threats you face.
How we work with you
- A cross-functional team of experienced, customer-focused leaders
- Delivery-excellence driven, able to navigate complex projects
- Effective across diverse business and technology organisations
- Heavy focus on enabling and sustaining change
- Establishing platforms for continuous improvement
Not sure what you need? Contact us to learn how to keep pace in an ever-changing digital world.
Mergers & Acquisitions Facilitation: A strategic route to growth
Mergers & acquisitions can be a strategic plan for your growth expectations. We guide you through the M&A process — from identifying potential opportunities and preparing the transaction, to successful integration.
| Role | What we help you do |
|---|---|
| For sellers | Understand the potential risks and rewards of a divestiture, arrive at an appropriate valuation for the business, fix suitable terms and conditions in the agreement, and support your negotiating position to maximise the sale consideration. |
| For acquirers | Explore synergy gains, conduct due diligence on the target, ascertain the appropriate consideration range for negotiation, and align deals with your strategic objectives while maintaining compliance and enhancing value from integration. |
How we add value
- Formulating M&A strategies
- Facilitation and assistance for documentation
- Advice on opportunities in distressed asset acquisition
- Due diligence
- Post-merger integration
- Spin-offs
- Internal group restructuring
- Transaction advisory
Financing Arrangements & Advisory: Fuel for your next move
From a small project to a brand-new venture, having the required funds and the right financing options ensures your business can carry out its desired operations and keep the show running. With our financing arrangement and advisory services, you get assistance from professional experts to secure the funding that fits.
We also help you strike the right balance — arriving at an optimum mix of debt and equity so you fund growth without over-leveraging.
What we help you access
- Debt funding
- Private Equity (PE) funding
- Loans from banks and financial institutions
- Grants and financial assistance from Government
- Assistance in drafting funding agreements
- Optimum mix for debt-equity
Business Restructuring: Strengthen, stabilise, reposition
Our business restructuring services help entities manage their financial and operational challenges. The goal is to strengthen balance sheets, boost cash flows, and support you in reaching your targeted position within your industry.
Financial & operational
- Financial restructuring
- Operational restructuring
- Debt and capital advisory
Cash & capital
- Cash-flow management and forecasting
- Working capital management
- Board advisory
Structural change
- Mergers, de-mergers and acquisitions
- Shutdown, liquidation and winding-up of unviable segments
Forensic & Dispute Resolution: Protect value, resolve disputes
The growth of the global and domestic economy, the rapid development of modern technologies and a significant rise in local and international regulation can all increase vulnerability to fraudulent activity and misconduct.
Our team consists of cross-functional experts in accounting, finance, law and information technology, providing comprehensive support in the prevention, detection and response to suspicious activities and incidents. We deliver investigative and expert dispute advisory, data acquisition and analytics, and forensic accounting solutions when you face complex litigation, arbitration, investigations or regulatory inquiries — helping you gather facts, resolve legal and commercial challenges, maximise compliance and minimise risk.
Our services include
- Forensic investigations
- Fraud risk assessment
- Litigation support services
- Dispute resolution and advisory services
- Anti-corruption compliance services
- Whistle-blowing services
Capital Budgeting / Investment Decisions: Invest with evidence, not instinct
For an entrepreneur, choosing what to invest in should not be an exercise of instinct. With capital budgeting methods, various projects can be appraised simultaneously, with the end result indicating which one will have the highest impact on your entity's value. Capital — whether raised as equity or debt — is a limited resource, so you must make careful choices about when and where to deploy it to create value.
Capital budgeting is the comparison of the cost or investment in a project against the cash flows it generates. If the value of the future cash flows exceeds the cost, there is potential for value creation and the project deserves a closer look.
How we help
We perform the capital budgeting analysis for your project. Drawing on professional skill, knowledge and experience across industries, we use appropriate estimates of interest rates, growth and cash-flow projections in our analysis.
The result: a clear set of options, each backed by substantiating data, so you can make genuinely informed decisions.
Foreign Trade: Trade smarter across borders
Exporting or importing opens up opportunity — and a web of policy to navigate. We advise on the Foreign Trade Policy, help you capture the export incentives you are entitled to, and guide you on claiming duty drawbacks, so your international trade is both compliant and cost-efficient.
Foreign trade advisory
- Consulting on Foreign Trade Policy
- Export incentives
- Duty drawbacks
Frequently asked questions
Have a big decision on the horizon?
Whether you are raising capital, weighing an acquisition or navigating a dispute, our advisors are ready to help you move with confidence.