The window between a SHAB distress publication and formal insolvency proceedings is measured in weeks, not months. Directors are scrambling for a credible path forward before the situation becomes irreversible. A turnaround consultant who reaches them in the first 48 hours arrives as a lifeline — not another vendor. By day 45, the case is in the hands of the court, and your mandate never existed.
For turnaround consultants, the entire value proposition collapses if you arrive too late. Turnaround only works before formal proceedings — once a court-appointed liquidator is in charge, the restructuring window is gone. The SHAB distress signal is the starting gun. Your competitors who don't monitor it daily are always a week behind.
Two SHAB event types create the clearest opening for a turnaround approach. Both indicate a company in transition — one existentially, one structurally — and both represent a mandate that has not yet been awarded.
Eine Betreibungsmeldung erscheint im SHAB. Zwei Turnaround-Berater sehen sie. Einer ruft noch am selben Morgen an. Der andere wartet bis nächsten Monat.
SHAB events give you a real, specific, verifiable reason to reach out. That changes the conversation from cold outreach to warm intelligence — you're not selling, you're responding to something that happened this morning and you have a view on it.
Founders & Movers has 27 pre-configured roles. These work similarly to Turnaround Consultant — overlapping signals, the same timing urgency, and complementary mandates in distress situations.
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