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ICSE Zambia — Sustainable Enterprise
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Business rescue

Repair. Rebuild. Return to Growth.

ICSE Zambia does not automatically abandon struggling businesses. Where value can be recovered, we work to recover it. Where it cannot, we say so early.

Request a Turnaround Assessment

Recoverable value

Distress is usually a symptom, not the whole story

Many failing companies still hold assets a buyer, lender or customer values. The question is whether the correctable problems are the ones actually causing the losses.

  • Customers
  • Assets
  • Staff
  • Licences
  • Products
  • Technology
  • Reputation
  • Contracts

The assessment

A practical turnaround process

Seven steps, in order. We do not move to capital before the losses have been stopped.

  1. Step 1

    Diagnose

    What is actually broken? Distress is usually a symptom, not the cause.

  2. Step 2

    Stabilise

    What must stop immediately — losses, leakage, unfunded commitments.

  3. Step 3

    Protect

    What value must be preserved: customers, staff, licences, assets, contracts.

  4. Step 4

    Restructure

    What must change financially, operationally or organisationally.

  5. Step 5

    Recapitalise

    Does the company genuinely require new capital, and on what terms.

  6. Step 6

    Rebuild

    Restore sales, controls, operations, management, supplier relationships and customer confidence.

  7. Step 7

    Exit where necessary

    Where turnaround is inappropriate: acquisition, merger, asset sale or controlled closure.

Who does the work

ICSE Commercial Response Team

When a serious opportunity or business challenge enters ICSE Zambia, we assemble the expertise the case actually requires. The team exists around the transaction, not around a department.

  • Commercial strategist
  • Accountant
  • Lawyer
  • Engineer
  • Banker
  • Investor
  • Sector expert
  • Marketer
  • Technology specialist
  • Operations specialist

Specialists are not all employees. Depending on the case they are ICSE Zambia staff, members, contracted professionals or strategic partners, engaged under terms appropriate to the work.

What to send us

The turnaround intake asks for the nature of the distress, current revenue, debt and creditor position, employees, assets, customers still in place and how urgent the situation is. Submissions are handled confidentially by the secretariat.

Start a turnaround intake

ICSE Zambia is not an insolvency practitioner and does not provide legal representation. Where a formal insolvency or legal process is required, we say so and work alongside the appropriate professionals.