Advisory Services
Focused expertise for complex businesses and consequential decisions
Robert works with clients who need more than general advice. Engagements are shaped around a specific opportunity, operating problem, transaction, partnership, dispute, or growth decision
Cannabis
Build the business behind the license
A cannabis license creates permission to operate. It does not create a strong operation. Robert helps clients connect licensing, facilities, products, people, brand, customer experience, and financial priorities into a workable business
- Dispensary development and operating review
- Cultivation and production project advisory
- Licensing strategy and regulatory coordination
- Product and brand development
- New market entry and expansion planning
- Asset, license, and business evaluation
Bars, nightclubs and hospitality
Turn the concept into an operation guests want to return to
Hospitality businesses live or die through execution. Robert helps ownership and leadership teams assess the concept, brand, guest journey, operating controls, partnerships, marketing, and revenue strategy behind a venue
- Venue operations and performance assessment
- Brand positioning and market activation
- Guest experience and service strategy
- Pre-opening and reopening advisory
- Operator and management partner evaluation
- Turnaround and restructuring support
Hotels and casino resorts
Specialty venue insight for complex resort environments
Bars, restaurants, nightclubs, retail concepts, and licensed businesses inside a hotel or casino operate within a larger ecosystem of brand standards, leases, security, guest flow, operating agreements, and revenue expectations
- Venue concept and operating model review
- Resort relationship assessment
- Lease and operating agreement business review
- Brand and guest experience advisory
- Performance and turnaround assessment
- Dispute context and expert advisory support
Before you commit
Test the opportunity, the claims, and the people behind them
Good presentations can hide weak assumptions. Robert helps clients examine an opportunity from an operator's point of view before they buy, invest, partner, expand, or sign
- Commercial and operating due diligence
- Cannabis license and asset review
- Partner and service provider vetting
- Business model and revenue logic assessment
- Operational readiness review
- Negotiation and decision support
When the situation is already difficult
Restore clarity before pressure drives the next mistake
Some engagements begin after expectations have broken down. Robert helps clients establish the operating facts, identify the central issues, and understand the industry context surrounding a dispute or turnaround
- Independent operational assessment
- Distressed project triage
- Partnership and management dispute analysis
- Lease and venue dispute support
- Expert adviser and expert witness support
- Written findings and case support
Ways to work together
The scope should fit the decision
Executive Consultation
Project Review
Strategic Advisory Engagement
Expert and Dispute Advisory
Scope, timing, confidentiality, deliverables, and fees are agreed before work begins
Private consultation
Tell Robert what decision is in front of you
A short introductory conversation can determine whether the matter fits Robert's experience and what type of engagement would be most useful