“GATS vision and focus is to extract and deliver enhanced value from the infrastructure assets, resources, business services and processes supporting your core and non-core operations”  – Rajan Sara, CEO, GATS

We enable organisations to optimise the value of their assets, increase profitability and boost balance sheet performance. 

We do this by delivering innovative solutions at each stage of an asset’s lifecycle, from acquisition and initial optimisation to steady state operational management and year on year performance improvement through to disposal.

This journey may involve facilitating re-financing or disposing of redundant or under-utilised assets, operational optimisation of processes and services and rationalisation of asset and real estate portfolios. Our aim is to deliver improved business performance for our customers based upon a more competitive, less volatile and lower cost base at each stage of the customer’s value chain.

We work with asset owners and managers in several ways.

We provide Due Diligence and Audit assessments which identify operational optimization opportunities, value creation strategies or even potential assets for acquisition. 

This can also include searches within the market place for target assets, as well as structured finance facilitation and development of potential solutions for operational or service re-organization, spin-off or outsourcing of an activity so as to take full advantage of balance sheet improvement opportunities.

“Our solutions are based on re-engineering non-core activities and relevant areas of core activities.” Mike Thrower – GATS

Many organisations do not wish to develop skill sets, or invest capital and resources in non-core activities, if these can be delivered more competitively by external specialists.

After understanding current business challenges and asset performance, and working in close consultation with the customer, we establish a tailored plan to transform the asset, enhance profitability and deliver a higher return on equity.

Asset optimization plans may contain one or more optimisation strategies customized to the needs of the particular asset or business, and may include recommendations for operational or service process improvement, spin-off or outsourcing of an activity or supply chain management review and re-engineering.

We assist our financial sponsors in identifying corporate finance re-engineering opportunities for existing assets, such as for plant and equipment, real estate, operating business divisions and non-core functions and activities. 

We also support our customers to optimise assets or activities in preparation for sale, sale and lease-back, outsourcing or other disposition, including ‘buyer facilitation’ where needed.