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Transactions, Operational Finance & Restructuring

When the numbers
have to hold up.

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Years of Experience
Reflects Baber Khan's 20-year career prior to founding VanQuest.
What We Do

Advisory Services

Every advisory engagement is powered by our proprietary ClearPoint analytics platform — delivering structured frameworks and execution-ready solutions.

Restructuring & Turnaround

Out-of-court restructuring, liquidity management, covenant analysis, creditor communications, operational cost-out

  • Out-of-court restructuring advisory & execution
  • 13-week cash flow forecasting (rolling, actuals vs. forecast)
  • Liquidity management & cash preservation strategies
  • Covenant analysis, compliance monitoring & lender reporting
  • Creditor communications & stakeholder management
  • Operational cost-out identification & implementation

M&A Advisory

Operational due diligence, synergy validation, carve-outs, integration planning, standalone cost modeling

  • Operational due diligence (buy-side & sell-side)
  • Synergy validation & value-capture planning
  • Carve-out readiness & standalone cost modeling
  • Integration planning & TSA development
  • Deal structuring support & transaction analytics

FP&A & Cash Flow Forecasting

We deliver the forecasting infrastructure and reporting discipline that CFOs need to manage cash, communicate with stakeholders, and make informed decisions.

  • Budgeting, forecasting & long-range financial planning
  • Financial modeling & strategic decision support
  • Performance reporting, KPI dashboards & trend analysis
  • Board packages & executive presentation materials

Operational Finance

We help organizations understand their true cost structure, uncover inefficiencies, and build actionable plans that improve margins and performance.

  • Cost-structure diagnostics across operations, overhead, and vendor spend
  • Working capital improvement and cash-conversion optimization
  • Performance benchmarking and KPI identification across functions
  • Organizational assessment, vendor analytics, and sourcing support
Track Record

Select Engagements

Representative engagements from Baber Khan’s 20-year career in corporate finance — spanning restructuring and turnaround, M&A advisory, FP&A, and operational finance.

Commercialization · Healthcare

Behavioral-Health Platform Go-to-Market

Developed commercialization strategy for a behavioral-health organization building a statewide operations and compliance platform.

Challenge: The company needed a structured, realistic commercialization plan, including market clarity, readiness assessment, pricing, and go-to-market sequencing.

Solution: Evaluated product readiness, compliance alignment, and scalability. Conducted Texas-specific market segmentation and TAM/SAM analysis. Built pricing scenarios for LMHAs, providers, and MCOs. Developed a staged go-to-market roadmap anchored in pilot execution.

Impact: Leadership gained a clear commercialization strategy supported by market logic. Investor-facing materials strengthened with structured market, pricing, and GTM rationale.

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Market-ready GTM strategy delivered
Operational · Energy

Offshore Drilling Cost & Value-Creation Assessment

Assessed cost structure and identified savings opportunities for an offshore drilling company facing declining activity and cost pressure.

Challenge: Declining activity and cost pressure required actionable insights into savings opportunities and operating model efficiency.

Solution: Assessed cost structure across G&A, rigs, supply chain, and support functions. Identified, sized, and prioritized synergy and cost-reduction opportunities. Built an integrated financial model supporting liquidity planning and scenario analysis.

Impact: Identified more than $30MM in validated run-rate savings. Delivered a realistic, sequenced roadmap for capturing value.

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$30M+ run-rate savings identified
Liquidity · Energy

E&P Operator Liquidity & Scenario Analysis

Provided near-term liquidity visibility and scenario-driven analysis for a PE-backed upstream operator under significant lender oversight.

Challenge: Sharp decline in commodity prices and tightening borrowing-base conditions created immediate liquidity uncertainty. Lenders and the PE sponsor needed objective, scenario-driven analysis.

Solution: Analyzed the 13-week cash flow for accuracy, variance drivers, and liquidity risks. Modeled scenarios across price paths, capex strategies, production changes, and cost actions. Synthesized findings into clear decision-support materials.

Impact: Provided a clear, data-driven view of near-term liquidity and operational sensitivities. Strengthened the company's negotiating position.

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Clear liquidity view & negotiating leverage
Operational · Industrials

Multi-Site Industrial Value-Creation Assessment

Analyzed operations across locations for an industrial services operator with variable profitability across sites.

Challenge: Profitability varied across sites and leadership needed a fact-based view of savings opportunities and operational levers.

Solution: Analyzed labor, procurement, overhead, and operational throughput across locations. Identified efficiencies in workforce deployment, vendor terms, and production utilization.

Impact: Identified $7MM–$16MM in run-rate savings. Improved workforce and vendor efficiency.

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$7M–$16M run-rate savings identified
M&A · Industrials

PE-Backed Industrial Synergy Assessment

Assessed value creation across subsidiaries for a PE-backed multi-site industrial products and services company.

Challenge: The company operated several subsidiaries with uneven performance, rising costs, and limited visibility into true cost drivers.

Solution: Assessed value creation across subsidiaries, evaluating cost structure, materials, labor, and overhead. Identified and sized synergies, validating a $17MM opportunity.

Impact: Validated $17MM in actionable synergies and operational improvements.

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$17M synergies validated
M&A · Education

Operational Due Diligence for Educational Services Provider

Conducted operational due diligence on a multi-campus healthcare education provider as an acquisition target.

Challenge: The buyer required ODD to understand scalability, cost structure, synergy potential, and integration risks across 17 campuses in 8 states.

Solution: Conducted ODD on structure, staffing, performance drivers, and campus variability. Sized cost synergies, operational efficiencies, and one-time integration costs.

Impact: Delivered a synergy analysis identifying $7MM–$11MM in sustainable annual cost synergies.

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$7M–$11M annual cost synergies
Divisive Merger · Energy

Divisive-Merger Liability & Scenario Assessment for PE-Backed E&P

Assessed liability allocation and modeled separation scenarios for a PE-backed upstream operator evaluating a potential divisive-merger structure.

Challenge: The company required clarity on how liabilities, exposures, and entity-level outcomes would shift under different separation scenarios.

Solution: Assessed liability allocation and exposure pathways. Modeled separation scenarios to illustrate entity-level financial and operational implications. Provided a framework highlighting key tradeoffs and exposures.

Impact: Delivered a structured, defensible view of risk distribution and financial implications.

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Structured risk framework delivered
How ClearPoint Works

From Raw Data to Board-Ready Insights

Three steps. Fast turnaround. No implementation consultants, no IT tickets, no six-month rollout.

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Share Your Data

We send you a focused data request tailored to your business — financials, operating data, and supporting schedules. We handle the mapping, cleanup, and model configuration.

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We Build Your Model

We build a tailored analytical framework for your situation — whether that’s a cash flow forecast, operational diagnostic, synergy model, or restructuring plan. Every assumption is transparent, every output auditable.

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You Get the Full Package

Interactive dashboards, formula-driven workbooks, and branded board packages — all cross-validated with automated integrity checks. Board-ready in days, not months.

The Case For Weekly

See The Bad Week Coming

A live cost shock, modelled two ways — weekly visibility versus monthly reporting. The gap between when you could act and when you find out is the whole argument for a rolling 13-week forecast.

Illustrative scenario. Commodity moves shown are since the start of the Iran war, not year-over-year.

See It In Action

Interactive ClearPoint Demo

Set the working-capital posture and watch a 13-week cash flow respond — the trajectory, the liquidity position and the KPIs move together. An illustrative taste; the full platform is walked through live.

ClearPoint — Illustrative Preview
• Base case
Snap between three curated postures. In ClearPoint each driver is independent and calibrated from your actuals — shown live, by appointment.
Net Cash Flow — 13 wk
+$2.5M
Ending Cash — Wk 13
$5.4M
Cash Trough
-$0.8M
Weeks Below Floor
11 of 13
Cash Trajectory
Ending book cash by week vs. the minimum-cash floor
Ending cashMin-cash floor
Liquidity
Cash above the floor + revolver availability = total liquidity
Excess / (shortfall) vs floorRevolver availabilityTotal liquidity
A preview of the ClearPoint dashboard, shown intentionally blurred
The Full Platform · By Appointment

There's much more behind the glass

The demo above is a taste. The working model — full line-item cash flow, revolver mechanics, borrowing base and covenant monitoring — isn't published online. Book a one-on-one and we'll walk you through the live dashboard over Teams or a screen-share, driven by real numbers.

Book a Live Walkthrough

Interactive demo uses illustrative figures. The full ClearPoint platform runs privately and is demonstrated live, never hosted for public access.

The ClearPoint Platform

Don’t get blindsided. See What’s Coming.

The full platform. 59 seconds. No sales call.

Need More Than a Platform?

Project-based advisory, interim CFO support, operational due diligence, and custom engagements available alongside the ClearPoint build. Let’s talk.

About VanQuest Consulting
Baber Khan
Baber Khan, CFA
Founder & Managing Partner
Our Approach — Straightforward. Analytical. Execution-focused.

VanQuest was created to fill a gap many companies experience. Firms often face complexity — financial, operational, or strategic — yet do not have the bandwidth or internal resources to diagnose issues quickly or build actionable plans. VanQuest brings senior-level rigor, structure, and clarity to these problems without the overhead of a large consulting firm.

Baber is a finance executive with more than twenty years in corporate finance, restructuring, M&A and FP&A, across energy, industrials and technology. His career spans FTI Consulting, corporate development at Baker Hughes and Waste Management, and valuation advisory at Duff & Phelps, along with hands-on execution of carve-outs, integrations and liquidity-critical work.

He has served as Interim CFO of a $150 million carve-out, where he built the finance function along with its weekly cash flow, three-statement model and reporting pack. He has led an out-of-court restructuring of a $210 million reserve-based loan, run the business plan evaluation and 100-day cost take-out for a $2 billion offshore drilling contractor that reached $30 million in run-rate savings, and led synergy and cost work on mergers, carve-outs and portfolio companies. Before his finance career he spent seven years as a software engineer.

RX

Restructuring & Turnaround

Out-of-court restructuring, liquidity management, covenant analysis, creditor communications

M&A

M&A Advisory

Operational due diligence, synergy validation, carve-outs, integration planning

FP&A

Financial Planning & Analytics

Budgeting & forecasting, KPI dashboards, liquidity management, board packages

OPS

Operational Improvement

Cost diagnostics, vendor analytics, working capital, benchmarking

Education & Technical Foundation

CFA Charterholder
MBA, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin
B.S. Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University
Prior to his finance career, Baber spent seven years as a software engineer, developing enterprise-grade solutions for Fortune 100 companies. This blend of engineering, finance, and strategic advisory enables him to bridge technical detail with commercial realities.

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Whether you need a rolling 13-week forecast, scenario-driven analytics, or a CFO-grade platform — we're ready when you are.

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