Independent Financial Advisory

Capital decisions, structured with institutional discipline.

K&B Corporate Consultants is an independent advisory firm working across operational finance, project finance, structured finance and portfolio advisory. Senior practitioners, institutional analysis, and no product to sell.

01Operational Finance
02Project Finance
03Structured Finance
04Portfolio Advisory
Practice Areas

Four disciplines. One analytical standard.

Most finance problems are not isolated. A weak cash conversion cycle changes what a project can carry in debt; a hedging decision changes what a balance sheet can absorb. We work across the four areas because the answers move together.

01 — OPERATIONAL FINANCE

Make the finance function a decision engine

CFO-level support for businesses that have outgrown their reporting but are not ready for a full senior finance team.

  • Working capital and cash conversion
  • Budgeting, forecasting and FP&A build-out
  • Month-end close and financial control
  • Treasury policy and banking relationships
  • Funding readiness and lender reporting
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02 — PROJECT FINANCE

From feasibility to financial close

Advisory for sponsors and developers raising limited or non-recourse debt against a defined asset and its cash flows.

  • Bankable financial models and base-case build
  • Debt sizing, sculpting and cover-ratio testing
  • Risk allocation and contract-to-model mapping
  • Lender process, information memoranda, Q&A
  • Conditions precedent and close support
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03 — STRUCTURED FINANCE

Turn cash flows into fundable structures

Structuring support where the asset — not the operating company — is the credit: receivables, leases, loans and contracted revenue.

  • Securitisation and asset-backed structuring
  • SPV design, ring-fencing and true-sale considerations
  • Waterfall, tranching and credit-enhancement modelling
  • Cash flow stress testing and rating-agency style analysis
  • Investor and lender presentation material
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04 — PORTFOLIO ADVISORY

Public equities, fixed income and derivatives

Non-discretionary analytical and governance support for allocators. We build the framework, the analytics and the oversight — you retain every decision.

  • Investment policy statements and mandate design
  • Asset allocation frameworks and scenario analysis
  • Fixed income: duration, curve and credit analytics
  • Derivatives: hedging design, exposure and payoff analysis
  • Manager selection support, attribution and reporting
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Why K&B

Independence is the product.

We do not distribute funds, place products, or earn commission from any counterparty. Our only revenue is the fee our client agrees with us — which is what makes the advice worth taking.

01

Senior-led

The person who scopes your engagement is the person who does the work. No pyramid, no handover to juniors.

02

Conflict-free

No products, no placement fees, no retrocessions. We are paid by you, for advice to you.

03

Institutional toolkit

Models, stress tests and risk analytics built to the standard a credit committee or investment committee expects.

04

Built to hand over

Every model, policy and process is documented and transferred. We aim to make ourselves optional.

Who we work with

Clients who need the analysis to hold up under scrutiny.

Corporates & sponsors

Mid-market companies, developers and infrastructure sponsors financing assets, refinancing debt, or professionalising treasury.

Family offices & private wealth

Principals and single-family offices who want an independent view on portfolio construction, risk and the managers they employ.

Institutional allocators

Pension schemes, insurers, foundations and corporate treasuries needing mandate design, analytics and governance support.

Founders & growth businesses

Companies scaling past their finance function — building forecasting, controls and the reporting investors and lenders ask for.

Approach

A four-stage engagement, priced before it starts.

You will know the scope, the deliverable and the fee before any work begins. Most engagements run on a fixed fee; longer advisory relationships run on a monthly retainer.

STAGE ONE

Scope

A short, no-obligation conversation to define the actual question, the constraints and what a good outcome looks like.

STAGE TWO

Diagnose

We read the numbers, contracts and existing models, and come back with findings — including where we disagree with the brief.

STAGE THREE

Build

The model, structure, policy or analysis is built, stress-tested and reviewed with you until it survives challenge.

STAGE FOUR

Transfer

Documentation, walkthrough and handover, so your team can run and update the work without us.

Start with the question, not the engagement.

Tell us the decision you are facing. If we are not the right firm for it, we will say so and point you to who is.

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