ABL Risk Management

The DSW Asset Based Lending Risk Management team offers both pre and post lend Due Diligence and Risk Management specialising in Receivables, Inventory, Plant and Machinery and Trade Finance across all funding levels.

We have a proven track record in assessing complex, high-value, and high-risk Asset Based Lending deal structures. We have the experience and the expertise to identify the key risk areas in both collateral and systems, and to add value by providing mitigating solutions enabling you to successfully manage both risk and reward.

Building a partnership with our clients is key to the way we work, and our quality, communication, and solution focused approach has enabled us to become the trusted partners of choice for many Asset Based Lenders, Banks, Professional Advisers, Private Equity Investors, Financial Sponsors and their clients.

ABL Risk Management Team

Hazel Lomas
Martin Ellison

Hazel Lomas

Hazel joined Dow Schofield Watts in January 2022 as a Founding Partner of Dow Schofield Watts Asset Based Lending Risk Management LLP. She previously spent over 30 years working for, and with, some of the major names in the Asset Based Lending industry, specifically undertaking complex multi-asset class due diligence, risk management, underwriting, senior client management and … Continued

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Martin Ellison

Martin is a founding partner of Dow Schofield Watts Asset Based Lending Risk Management LLP, and has over 30 years’ experience working with SME’s, Mid-Market and Corporate clients across a wide range of industries. Following graduation from Durham University, he joined KPMG in London before moving to Horwath Clark Whitehill in Manchester where he undertook … Continued

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Asset Based Lending Risk Management Services

Pre-lend Due Diligence

New business surveys, on site or desktop examinations, receivables, inventory, P&M, trade finance, and deal structuring

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Post-lend Due Diligence

Outsourced cycle audits, on site or desktop examinations, receivables, inventory, P&M, trade finance, and full risk assessment

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Risk Management

Collectability reviews, ongoing monitoring, facility reviews, and contingency planning

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Receivables Recovery

Securing of records, collections management, outsourced credit control, and recoverability assessment

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Accounts Receivable

Pre-lend new business surveys, post-lend ad-hoc and cycle audits, debtor verifications, collectability / contract reviews, and collections management / credit control
Inventory

Ongoing monitoring, full or sample stock counts, retention of title, margins analyses, and net realisable value
Plant & Machinery

Asset identification, security tagging, in situ appraisal, and residual value analysis
Trade Finance

Due diligence, documentation audit, cross border trade transactions, and securitisation

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We are the safe pair of hands who can help you to identify, manage and minimise the risks in your portfolio. Please get in touch to discuss how we can work together.

Asset Based Lending Risk Management

01928 378 100

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We have a proven track record in assessing complex, high-value, and high-risk Asset Based Lending deal structures. We have the experience and the expertise to identify the key risk areas, and to add value by providing mitigating solutions, enabling you to successfully manage both risk and reward.

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