Distress
Distress can be caused by failing to secure financing which can be maintained in the long-term.
Excessive indebtedness can be a result of using unrealistic financial projections or delaying optimization of working capital and superfluous assets.

Insolvency
Companies which, for whatever reason, lose their profitability are often in the difficult situation of not being able to implement new projects and even slide into insolvency. Latest at that point, Investors goals will look very different than borrowers.
Restructuring
Financial constraints or evident insolvency risk require quick action. Liquidity and financing must be secured and managed, profitability improved and value conserved.
Steps
Among first measures, we put in place a Turnaround Dashboard collecting most relevant information to separate value creation from destruction. Then a restructuring plan prioritizes first measures to optimize solvency with the help of a liquidity contingency plan until securing longer term financing.
Those who know and will lead the business in the future should define and hence implement strategic and operating measures to improve earning power. However, management is usually absorbed in fighting symptoms. In such a situation, it is often useful to involve external specialists to take urgent financial measures. They thus might better demonstrate to the lenders the eligibility for financing of individual businesses and projects.
A third party may also be useful to mediate between the borrower and lender convergent solutions acceptable to both parties when negotiations are getting nowhere, or to arrange adequate alternative refinancing through different measures and instruments.
Debt moratorium or refinancing with debt cancellation can make sense also for creditors in the context of a restructuring and recapitalization.