SERVICES
MARENGO CAPITAL
Kurt is an expert in creating and managing for long term enterprise value. Value is multifaceted, cutting across technical disciplines and siloed business units. Therefore, lots of value remains not only unrealised but undiscovered, if technical disciplines are ingrained and/or business siloes are entrenched.
CUTTING EDGE
COMMERCIAL ACUMEN
Kurt’s diverse professional background is a unique and potent commercial asset which transcends technical disciplines and transverses business siloes. It has allowed him to develop, hone and fine-tune cutting-edge commercial acumen applicable to all businesses and put it into practice in large and small, start-up and mature, public and private, financial and non-financial enterprises.
CREATING VALUE
Kurt creates value for a portfolio of clients and designs the architecture to manage value efficiently, effectively, and economically, transferring know-how so clients can sustain improvements themselves.
His clients cover a full spectrum of commercial enterprises, from small privately held corporations who want to IPO, through to large privately held and listed corporations who want to reinvigorate economic performance and improve financial sustainability.
Kurt is invited to speak as a technical authority in Treasury, Corporate Finance, Financial Markets, and Executive and Board Advisory, at events in Australia, Asia, Europe, and the USA. Clients of Marengo Capital benefit from his thought-leadership in these fields.
The following examples are illustrative, not exhaustive, of the specialist capabilities applied in Marengo Capital client engagements.
TREASURY
FINANCIAL ALIGNMENT
Aligning governance, strategy and risk, and key performance indicators.​
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FUNDING & REFINANCING
Through syndicated and bilateral bank loans.
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ISSUING & REFINANCING
Through USPP, AMTN, EMTN, and hybrids in capital markets.
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NEGOTIATION
Negotiating with credit rating agencies (banks), and managing to credit rating metrics (bank covenants).
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OPTIMISATION
Optimising cash and working capital, including C2C, P2P and F2F.
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RISK MANAGEMENT
Managing financial risks, including the volatility of earnings, interest rate risk, FX rate risk, and commodity price risk, through the design and execution of hedging strategies and programs in financial markets (including derivatives).
ESTABLISHMENT & IMPROVEMENTS
Establishing and improving centralised corporate treasury functions, including designing operating models, preparing policies, strategies, and procedures, and cascading Board risk appetite to Treasury financial risk.
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COST MINIMISATION
Minimising the weighted average cost of capital.
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ACCESSING FINANCE
Accessing trade and government financing.
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INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGN
Improving inter-company loan arrangements and transaction banking.
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COACHING & MENTORING
Treasurer coaching and mentoring.​
TEAM SUPPORT
Team assessment, restructuring, development and hiring.
​TRAINING
CORPORATE FINANCE
CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
Including sourcing, structuring and allocating capital in a way which increases long term enterprise value.
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LONG TERM VALUE
Investment governance frameworks, standards, guidelines, templates, and business case evaluations, for creating and managing for long term enterprise value within Board risk appetite.
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INVESTMENT FUNDS
Establishing wholesale investment funds and special purpose vehicles (including offshore SPVs).​​
PROJECT FUNDING
Structuring Sharia-compliant project funding.
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MARKET LISTING ASSISTANCE
Assisting pre-IPO companies to market listing.
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ROI MAXIMISATION
Maximising the return on invested capital.
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COACHING & MENTORING
CFO, Deputy CFO, and Head of coaching and mentoring
TRAINING
FINANCIAL MARKETS
VALUATION & HEDGING
Advanced derivatives valuation and hedging, including exotic FX options.
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TRADING ADVISORY
Sell-side and buy-side advisory in trading operating models, governance and risk management (including model risk).
BANK SALES TRAINING
Training for bank sales teams and relationship managers to improve service offering to corporate clients.
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BANK TRADING TRAINING
Training for bank trading teams in the pricing and hedging of vanilla and exotic FX options.
EXECUTIVE & BOARD ADVISORY
GOVERNANCE ALIGNMENT
Aligning and driving governance, strategy and risk, and KPIs.
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GOVERNANCE ARCHITECTURE
Developing governance architecture including:
- Shareholders Agreements
- Management Agreement
- Shareholders Loan Agreements
- Investment Governance Committees
- Treasury Management Committee Terms of Reference.
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CFO PERFORMANCE ASSISTANCE
Establishing and improving the performance of CFO Offices.​​
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FINANCIAL STRATEGY
Developing economic performance and financial sustainability strategy.
​BOARD LIABILITY
Providing independent expert advice to mitigate Board liability.
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AML/CTF COMPLIANCE
Developing anti money laundering and counter-terrorism financing Part A, Part B and Risk Assessment program documents.
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COACHING & MENTORING
TRAINING