Every advisory engagement is powered by our proprietary ClearPoint analytics platform — delivering structured frameworks and execution-ready solutions.
Out-of-court restructuring, liquidity management, covenant analysis, creditor communications, operational cost-out
Operational due diligence, synergy validation, carve-outs, integration planning, standalone cost modeling
We deliver the forecasting infrastructure and reporting discipline that CFOs need to manage cash, communicate with stakeholders, and make informed decisions.
We help organizations understand their true cost structure, uncover inefficiencies, and build actionable plans that improve margins and performance.
Representative engagements from Baber Khan’s 20-year career in corporate finance — spanning restructuring and turnaround, M&A advisory, FP&A, and operational finance.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Three steps. Fast turnaround. No implementation consultants, no IT tickets, no six-month rollout.
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.
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.
Interactive dashboards, formula-driven workbooks, and branded board packages — all cross-validated with automated integrity checks. Board-ready in days, not months.
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.
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.
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 WalkthroughInteractive demo uses illustrative figures. The full ClearPoint platform runs privately and is demonstrated live, never hosted for public access.
The full platform. 59 seconds. No sales call.
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Project-based advisory, interim CFO support, operational due diligence, and custom engagements available alongside the ClearPoint build. Let’s talk.
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.
Out-of-court restructuring, liquidity management, covenant analysis, creditor communications
Operational due diligence, synergy validation, carve-outs, integration planning
Budgeting & forecasting, KPI dashboards, liquidity management, board packages
Cost diagnostics, vendor analytics, working capital, benchmarking
Whether you need a rolling 13-week forecast, scenario-driven analytics, or a CFO-grade platform — we're ready when you are.
You get answers, clarity, and solutions you can act on immediately. No jargon. No filler. We respond to every inquiry within 24 hours.