SPECIAL SITUATIONS ADVISORY
Your organization is in uncharted waters and it needs to be navigated successfully.
Getting it wrong is expensive. Getting it right requires someone who knows how to get you there
You face a situation with much at stake. Perhaps you pursue a great opportunity that has to succeed, perhaps you are met with an external force that needs a response. Its complex, and unknowns bring uncertainty. It’s the type of situation that isn’t solved by a preexisting solution or framework. You need someone that knows how to help you navigate it right.
Who do you call? Currently nobody. Because no single professional category owns this kind of situation or project. That’s where Rosemont comes in.
OUR OPERATIONAL DOMAIN
01
Pressure from regulations, authorities or government.
Inspections flagging violations, trouble meeting tightening regulations and standards or deterioritating government relations can cause serious disruption, delays, penalties or worse: shutdowns.
02
Large investment in production assets or technology
Significant capital committed: new production capacity, facility upgrades and technology acquisition. Stakeholder expectations must be maintained under pressure.
03
Site Closure and Transfer of Capital Assets
Divesting physical assets or closing down a facility involves negotation, risk transfer and a large number of stakeholders that need to be in on your way out.
04
Disruption or Crisis
An organisation experiencing disruption, struggling to function, over-reliant on a single resource, or unable to identify and address the underlying root cause.
05
External threats
An organisation experiencing disruption, struggling to function, over-reliant on a single resource, or unable to identify and address the underlying root cause.
06
Teams unable to make progress.
Teams tasked with breakthrough innovation or a critical operational challenge — locked under pressure, struggling to move forward despite effort and resource.
Definition
Operating at the Edge of the Playbook
There are no preexisting solutions to Special Situations. They are outside the scope of one single discipline, i.e. legal, financial, engineering. This requires an interdisciplinary role. Someone who understands often deeply technical knowledge from different experts, while also knowing how to approach the human interactions and can translate it into a path forward.
DEFINITION
Operational Domain
The following reference situations show our workfield. Distinct at surface level, sharing inherent characteristics underneath. Find case studies specified. For the full description click here.
Typical Situations
Different challenges at first glance, but upon closer examination they reveal common patterns and shared characteristics.
01 | Regulatory pressure, enforcement or deteriorated government relations.
Violations flagged inspection by authorities, or inability to meet tightening regulations and standards can cause disruption, delays, penalties or worse: shutdowns. Read more
Case study: Emissions Allowance Breach
02 | Major investment: Asset acquisition and new production capacity
Significant capital committed: new production capacity, facility upgrades and technology acquisition. Stakeholder expectations must be maintained under pressure. Read more
Case study: Large Scale Facility
03 | Complex Asset Transfer and Site Closure
Divesting physical assets or closing down a facility. This involves a large number of stakeholders, all of whom need to be on board with the approach on your way out, while negotiating the terms of the sale and transferring risk. Read more
Case study: Factory sale and Site Closure
04 | Organizational disruption and Crisis Recovery
An organization experiencing disruption or breakdown that affects its ability to function properly. It may struggle to make equipment work. It may have become over-reliant on a single resource or vendor, or things that used to work simply aren’t working anymore. Read more
Case study: Crisis Recovery in Large Plant
05 | External Threat
Pressure from a competitor or activist group systematically undermining your regulatory standing, a stakeholder coalition quietly eroding your social license to operate, unintentional harm from another’s activities (negative externality) forcing a response. Read more
Case: None disclosed
06 | Teams Unable to Make Progress
Teams tasked with making equipment work, get a pilot plant up and running, or attempting a breakthrough innovation, but finds itself going in circles, locked in under pressure, and struggling to make progress. Read more
Case: None disclosed
Definition
Understanding Special Situations
A special situation is a non-standard event with a the potential to alter a company’s future trajectory, and materially impact its value.
This may be positive (a major investment, a new opportunity) and negative (conflict, drift distress). In either case the playbook doesn’t apply.
We Worked With
From the Room
Operators that were able to rely on us when it mattered in order to achieve desired outcomes in situations they faced and their account.
Debriefing
Organizations that worked with Rosemont and what they report.
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Why Rosemont
A Q&A with Rosemont’s founder and principal discussing Special Situations providing more insight on what the firm does and what sets them apart.