CMAI Business Advisory Services
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CMAI Representative Studies - Business
Planning - Technical Analysis
- Financial Analysis - Independent Advisors - Litigation Support
- Strategy - Training - About CMAI's Consultants
Through its Business Advisory Services function, CMAI provides confidential analysis
to clients around the globe. Each study is uniquely tailored to meet the
specific needs of the client, and each consultant in Business Advisory Services
brings his or her own set of experiences gained through years in the
chemical industry. This experience, coupled with constant interaction with
CMAI’s market advisory consultants, provides for timely and accurate market
interpretation and strategic analysis. CMAI is a leader in providing strategic
and project planning studies to all aspects of the global chemical
industry, including chemical and integrated oil companies, engineering and
construction companies, banking and financial institutions, trading companies
and governmental agencies.
Business Planning
During the planning process, CMAI acts as an independent market advisor,
offering strategic and commercial analysis to companies as they develop budgets
and medium-to long-term business plans. This analysis includes challenging
existing theories within a company, identifying competitive strengths and
weaknesses, developing conclusions about expansion and divestiture
opportunities, and analyzing risk.
Strategic and Commercial Analysis
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Medium, Long-Term Planning
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Portfolio Reviews
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Sector Reviews
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Master Plans
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Asset Benchmarking
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Return on Assets
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Corporate Benchmarks
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Competitor Behavior
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SWOT Analysis
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Marketing Plans
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Feedstock and Offtake Contract Support
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Trade Flows -Commercial Due Diligence
As companies examine new ventures, CMAI provides impartial advice to the
stakeholders of the venture - from financial institutions to the producing
companies. Business Advisory Services offers expertise in
both project planning and independent engineering.
Independent Engineering
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Investment Costs
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Project Approvals
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Feedstock and Product Offtake Agreements
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Project Implementation Support
Project Planning
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Pre-feasibility and Feasibility Studies
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"Bankable" Studies
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Project Financing Inputs
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Project Implementation Support
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Completion/Post Completion Audits
Technical Analysis
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Manufacturing Costs
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Post Plant Costs
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Industry Cost Curves
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Technology Evaluations
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Process Benchmarks and Review
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Plant Assessments
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Technical Due Diligence
Financial institutions and petrochemical companies often require analysis that
is tailored either to examine specific financial and commercial scenarios or to
compare a variety of market conditions. This analysis includes project
appraisals and merger and acquisition evaluation.
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Price and Margin Analysis
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Price and Margin Forecasts
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Cash Flow Analysis
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Transaction Values
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Risk Assessment
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Commercial Due Diligence
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Financial Due Diligence
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Technical Due Diligence
CMAI consultants are consistently asked to make presentations to a wide array of
industry groups and companies. The presentations can provide general "state of
the industry" comments, or they can be focused on specific issues.
CMAI consultants are also available to serve in the capacity of Expert Witness
for companies as they work to resolve issues that require informed advice and
industry knowledge.
CMAI's staff members have developed extensive experience in providing expert
assistance to attorneys involved in litigating matters relating to the energy,
chemical and allied products industries. CMAI's staff members have
experience working with engineers, regulators, business executives, attorneys
and other consultants. With this background, we work as true members of a
client team to understand what issues are relevant to the case and how they can
be best presented. We help the attorneys formulate a litigation strategy
while developing information during the entire discovery and trial
processes. Service offerings consist of:
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Litigation strategy/question formulation
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Identify/screen/prepare testifying experts
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Evaluate case for technical merit and assess strengths/weaknesses
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Damages assessment
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Cost benefit analysis
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Negligence determination
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Contract arbitration support
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Expert witness reports and testimony
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Deposition and deposition support
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Documentation review
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Insurance related services
CMAI applies its cutting-edge analytics and unrivaled industry knowledge with proven strategy processes enabling clients to implement robust, viable and valuable strategic solutions through the business cycle. We work with companies to provide practical solutions and initiatives in the following areas:
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Strategy Development: Interactively support corporate and business strategy development.
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Portfolio Optimization: Restructure, acquire or divest businesses, products and capabilities that maximize value and appropriately mitigate risk.
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Market Entry / Segmentation: Identify and assess opportunities for new markets, channels, platforms and sectors to maximize value.
Our industry workshops are offered throughout the year and around the globe, but to accommodate our clients, CMAI can bring our industry workshops to you. We are always expanding and developing these workshops to best serve our clients; current workshops include:
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Petrochemical Industry Fundamentals Workshop has been designed by industry experts to effectively bring today’s businessperson up to speed with language, concepts and key issues in the industry.
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Polyolefins Industry Workshop is the best way to get acquainted with the most relevant concepts for the polyethylene and polypropylene market sectors: examining how the global market and production dynamics of polyethylene and polypropylene have a significant effect in the petrochemical industry, from a profitability, demand and investments point of view.