Corporate & investment banks: competitiveness, flexibility, recovery
Merging NPL strategy, workout and restructuring execution, alongside governance stewardship - preserving asset value and enterprise performance
Lagarde & Guardsmen is the activist advisor to the Builders.
Activist: We are with you on the long term, supporting you across your build, not only when you need it. As sentinels, if we see you moving away from your values, and ours, we address it. Our standards for you and us, above our interests, always.
Advisor: We do not advise you out of unlived experience - as an entrepreneurial firm, previously investor, board member, corporate issuer, corporate borrower, lender, and consultant, we know how to engage with all stakeholders and how to build value out of it.
As Guardsmen of enduring enterprise value, we integrate financial restructuring, operational transformation, cultural redesign, and long-term growth into a single method.
This method is Enterprise Value Optimisation.
Corporate and investment banks: key to the builder economy but require more competitiveness
Compliance & capital pressures
Complex multi-stakeholder negotiations
Enterprise oversight in enforcement
Bank level leadership lacking
Reputation Management
Capital requirements demand swift resolution of distressed exposures often impaired by limited internal bandwith.
Banks must reconcile multiple conflicting interests - risk, relationship management - often impairing recovery.
Receivership intact but lacks operators to lift enterprise performance eventually eroding recovery value.
Relationship Management teams focused on performing assets, risk management on liquidating risk, little room for flexibility.
Poorly led workouts or public disputes can damage standing with clients, investors, and potential new borrowers.
CIBs require advisors that have experience in operating, turning around corporates in volatile situations
Lagarde & Guardsmen exists to empower corporate & investment banks in their structuring, restructuring, enforcement focusing on collateral value optimization.
Stakeholder management
Financial restructuring
Organisational re-engineering
Strategic repositioning
Operational turnaround
One governance forum aligns all stakeholders - in/out of court - compressing negotiations and ending mandate drift.
We orchestrate portfolio, deal, restructurings, securities enforcement advisory primary and secondary advisory.
We setup and execute shadow management frameworks to address leadership voids that often arise in distressed scenarios.
We assess whether strategy is best served through a buy-hold-sell structure and execute in alignment with all stakeholders.
We supervise an enterprise value restructuring in the context of buy-hold structures reviewing corporate operations.
What we do
The Build:
The Re-Build:
We accompany corporate & investment banks through two major mandates
Enhance active credit capabilities - structuring, credit processes, and governance to originate, manage, and support complex transactions.
Convert NPL exposures into strategic recoveries - leading restructurings, stabilising operations, and turnaround assets.
Enterprise Value Optimization (EVO)
is our end-to-end methodology for systematically enhancing every facet of your enterprise—financial, operational, strategic, and cultural—to achieve durable, long-range value creation. Rather than a transactional engagement, the EVO Mandate represents a comprehensive transformation journey.
1. Fortress Phase – Short term scan and transformation preparation
2. Catalyst Phase – Complete structuring / restructuring
3. Ascent Phase – Legacy building & compounding resilience
Our promise to corporate & investment banks
We stand beside your risk and capital committees from first early-warning signal through final capital-markets victory—turning stressed loan books and volatile franchises into Builder-Economy engines.
Builder-era origination
Workout command
ROA redynamisation
We re-engineer your deal engine for the Builder Era - pivoting from spread-hunting transactions to stewardship partnerships that compound fee income and strategic capital into long term cross-stakeholder value creation.
We assume the workout command post - fusing credit, legal, and operating levers into one battle-plan that turns write-downs into recoverable, builder-ready assets.
We ignite Return-on-Assets by liberating trapped capital, tuning risk-weighted books, and installing builder-grade discipline across the balance sheet—converting volatility into sustained throughput.
Your institution moves from defensive risk management to disciplined value compounding - preserving downside, elevating strategic velocity, and securing a legacy of stewardship in the new Builder Economy within a competitive lending environment.
We should talk.
Send us your contact request here or book an appointment below
Corporate & Investment Banks: competitiveness, flexibility, recovery
Merging NPL strategy, workout and restructuring execution, alongside governance stewardship - preserving asset value and enterprise performance
Corporate and Investment Banks: key to the builder economy but require more competitiveness
Compliance & Capital Pressures
Complex Multi-Stakeholder Negotiations
Enterprise Oversight in Enforcement
Bank Level Leadership Lacking
Reputation Management
Capital requirements demand swift resolution of distressed exposures often impaired by limited internal bandwith.
Banks must reconcile multiple conflicting interests - risk, relationship management - often impairing recovery.
Receivership intact but lacks operators to lift enterprise performance eventually eroding recovery value.
Relationship Management teams focused on performing assets, risk management on liquidating risk, little room for flexibility.
Poorly led workouts or public disputes can damage standing with clients, investors, and potential new borrowers.
About Lagarde & Guardsmen
CIBs require advisors that have experience in operating, tunring around corporates in volatile situations
Lagarde exists to empower corporate & investment banks in their structuring, restructuring, enforcement focusing on collateral value optimization.
Stakeholder Management
Financial restructuring
Organisational re-engineering
Strategic repositioning
Operational turnaround
One governance forum aligns all stakeholders - in/out of court - compressing negotiations and ending mandate drift.
We orchestrate portfolio, deal, restructurings, securities enforcement advisory primary and secondary advisory.
We setup and execute shadow management frameworks to address leadership voids that often arise in distressed scenarios.
We assess whether strategy is best served through a buy-hold-sell structure and execute in alignment with all stakeholders.
We supervise an enterprise value restructuring in the context of buy-hold structures reviewing corporate operations.
What We Do
The Build:
The Re-Build:
We accompany & Investment Banks through two major mandates
Enhance active credit capabilities - structuring, credit processes, and governance to originate, manage, and support complex transactions.
Convert NPL exposures into strategic recoveries - leading restructurings, stabilising operations, and turnaround assets.
Enterprise Value Optimization (EVO)
is our end-to-end methodology for systematically enhancing every facet of your enterprise—financial, operational, strategic, and cultural—to achieve durable, long-range value creation. Rather than a transactional engagement, the EVO Mandate represents a comprehensive transformation journey.
1. Fortress Phase – Short term scan and transformation preparation
2. Catalyst Phase – Complete Structuring / Restructuring
3. Ascent Phase – Legacy Building & Compounding Resilience
We do much more: Discover the Guardsmen Ecosystem
Our Promise to Corporate & Investment Banks
We stand beside your risk and capital committees from first early-warning signal through final capital-markets victory—turning stressed loan books and volatile franchises into Builder-Economy engines.
Builder-Era Origination
Workout command
ROA redynamisation
We re-engineer your deal engine for the Builder Era - pivoting from spread-hunting transactions to stewardship partnerships that compound fee income and strategic capital into long term cross-stakeholder value creation.
We assume the workout command post - fusing credit, legal, and operating levers into one battle-plan that turns write-downs into recoverable, builder-ready assets.
We ignite Return-on-Assets by liberating trapped capital, tuning risk-weighted books, and installing builder-grade discipline across the balance sheet—converting volatility into sustained throughput.
Your institution moves from defensive risk management to disciplined value compounding - preserving downside, elevating strategic velocity, and securing a legacy of stewardship in the new Builder Economy within a competitive lending environment.
We should talk.
Send us your contact request here or book an appointment below
Lagarde & Guardsmen is the Activist Advisor to the Builders.
Activist: We are with you on the long term, supporting you across your build, not only when you need it. As sentinels, if we see you moving away from your values, and ours, we address it. Our standards for you and us, above our interests, always.
Advisor: We do not advise you out of unlived experience - as entrepreneurial firm, previously investor, board member, corporate issuer, corporate borrower, lender, and consultant, we know how to engage with all stakeholders and how to build value out of it.
As Guardsmen of enduring enterprise value, we integrate financial restructuring, operational transformation, cultural redesign, and long-term growth into a single method.
This method is Enterprise Value Optimisation.
Discover the Builder Economy founding paper here
Corporate & investment Banks: competitiveness, flexibility, recovery
Merging NPL strategy, workout and restructuring execution, alongside governance stewardship - preserving asset value and enterprise performance
Lagarde & Guardsmen is the activist advisor to the Builders.
Activist: We are with you on the long term, supporting you across your build, not only when you need it. As sentinels, if we see you moving away from your values, and ours, we address it. Our standards for you and us, above our interests, always.
Advisor: We do not advise you out of unlived experience - as an entrepreneurial firm, previously investor, board member, corporate issuer, corporate borrower, lender, and consultant, we know how to engage with all stakeholders and how to build value out of it.
As Guardsmen of enduring enterprise value, we integrate financial restructuring, operational transformation, cultural redesign, and long-term growth into a single method.
This method is Enterprise Value Optimisation.
Capital requirements demand swift resolution of distressed exposures often impaired by limited internal bandwith.
Corporate & investment banks: key to the Builder Economy but require more competitiveness
Compliance & capital pressures
Complex multi-stakeholder negotiations
Enterprise oversight in enforcement
Bank level leadership lacking
Reputation management
Banks must reconcile multiple conflicting interests - risk, relationship management - often impairing recovery.
Receivership intact but lacks operators to lift enterprise performance eventually eroding recovery value.
Relationship management teams focused on performing assets, risk management on liquidating risk, little room for flexibility.
Poorly led workouts or public disputes can damage standing with clients, investors, and potential new borrowers.
CIBs require advisors that have experience in operating, turning around corporates in volatile situations
Lagarde & Guardsmen exists to empower corporate & investment banks in their structuring, restructuring, enforcement focusing on collateral value optimization.
Stakeholder management
Financial restructuring
Organisational re-engineering
Strategic repositioning
Operational turnaround
We setup and execute shadow management frameworks to address leadership voids that often arise in distressed scenarios.
One governance forum aligns all stakeholders - in/out of court - compressing negotiations and ending mandate drift.
We orchestrate portfolio, deal, restructurings, securities enforcement advisory primary and secondary advisory.
We assess whether strategy is best served through a buy-hold-sell structure and execute in alignment with all stakeholders.
We supervise an enterprise value restructuring in the context of buy-hold structures reviewing corporate operations.
We accompany corporate & investment banks through two major mandates
What we do
The Build:
Enhance active credit capabilities - structuring, credit processes, and governance to originate, manage, and support complex transactions.
Enterprise Value Optimization (EVO)
is our end-to-end methodology for systematically enhancing every facet of your enterprise - financial, operational, strategic, and organisational - to achieve durable, long-range value creation. Rather than a transactional engagement, the Build and Re-Build represent comprehensive transformation journeys.
1. Fortress Phase – Short term scan and transformation preparation
2. Catalyst Phase – Complete structuring / restructuring
3. Ascent Phase – Legacy building & compounding resilience
The Re-Build:
Convert NPL exposures into strategic recoveries - leading restructurings, stabilising operations, and turnaround assets.
Our commitment to corporate & investment banks
We stand beside your risk and capital committees from first early-warning signal through final capital-markets victory—turning stressed loan books and volatile franchises into Builder-Economy engines.
We re-engineer your deal engine for the Builder Era - pivoting from spread-hunting transactions to stewardship partnerships that compound fee income and strategic capital into long term cross-stakeholder value creation.
Builder-era origination
We assume the workout command post - fusing credit, legal, and operating levers into one battle-plan that turns write-downs into recoverable, builder-ready assets.
We ignite Return-on-Assets by liberating trapped capital, tuning risk-weighted books, and installing builder-grade discipline across the balance sheet—converting volatility into sustained throughput.
ROA redynamisation
Lagarde & Guardsmen is for the Builders, not for everyone.
Merging strategy, capital, culture, and operations into a single, enduring value proposition.
We should talk.
Workout command