If your company is struggling with internal or external challenges, SOS will help you evaluate your business strategy and operational elements, develop untapped resources and opportunities, and craft the best solution with which to move forward. We have successfully added value at all stages of the corporate lifecycle, up to and including bankruptcy. SOS takes control with an owner’s mindset until the desired results are achieved and then transfers control to a trained and proven management team.

As a conservator, SOS manages the business affairs of individuals, estates, or entities, and many clients require SOS to wear multiple hats (such as when an incapacitated person also owns a business). A conservatorship arises when a concerned party petitions a court to request the appointment of a conservator. Once appointed, SOS steps in and assumes legal control of the client’s finances. SOS is a fiduciary for the client, and is, therefore, held to a higher standard of care to act in the client's best interest and is answerable to the court for the duration of the conservatorship. Although many people struggle with the idea of an outsider having control of their loved one's affairs, it has been our experience that situations where family members or friends serve as conservator are fraught with inter-family distress that often causes irreparable harm to the relationship. Although SOS will take on virtually any conservatorship to which it can add value, we seek the complex cases. SOS takes a very professional, yet sympathetic approach to conservatorships and takes great care to do what is best for the client. For general information on Guardianships and Conservatorships, see the literature published by the Idaho State Bar Section on Taxation, Probate & Trust Law: Guardianship & Conservatorship

A healthy company, strategically-sound and operationally-efficient, maximizes its worth to potential buyers and is best-postured for advantageous mergers and acquisitions. SOS can help you extract the greatest possible value from your company and successfully navigate complex situations where your hard-fought equity is on the line.

Our gaming division has many years’ experience serving the gaming industry and offers cost-effective and reliable ways to improve operating efficiencies, morale, and profit margins. SOS takes a comprehensive approach to operations reviews, leadership development, marketing programs, and overall property positioning. We manage and consult casino properties and develop strategic business and marketing plans. Whether evaluating operations, managing short-term crises, or implementing a turnaround strategy, SOS provides management advising, human resource strategies, and internal controls and procedures for the entire operation. Steve Neighbors is licensed by the Nevada Gaming Commission.

SOS has a sterling record in securing win-win relationships in tough negotiations with suppliers, lenders, and partners. We negotiate agreements by focusing on long-term strategic results and relationships, not short-sightedness or emotion. We seek first to understand the needs of all stakeholders and then negotiate real solutions for moving forward.

Much like a court-appointed conservator, SOS also serves as an owner-appointed trustee over a client's affairs. An owner-appointed trusteeship arises, for example, when the owner of a distressed company makes the wise, yet often difficult, decision to hand over the keys and let SOS sort out the problems. SOS has served as trustee over companies with problems ranging from simple financial issues to major violations of state and federal law involving criminal charges. As trustee, SOS is a fiduciary for the stakeholders, and is, therefore, held to a higher standard of care, and seeks to craft and implement the strategy best-served to effectuate the greatest good for the greatest number.

If you have a difficult project or start-up, SOS will ensure that it is strategically-oriented, operationally-efficient, and holistically-executed with an eye toward the future. We can assist in starting a new business, managing a large project such as construction or litigation, developing a patent portfolio or reverse-engineering a patent, or improving your day-to-day operations to ensure that you are doing it better than your competitors.