Capital Solutions · For acquirers
We arrange and structure the debt behind a technology acquisition from $5M to $50M: sizing the tranches, preparing the credit package, running lenders in parallel, and holding the timetable against your signing date.
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Most acquirers at this size can find a lender. What costs them price, and occasionally the transaction, is running one lender at a time, discovering the coverage test late, and arriving at the credit committee with a package assembled in a fortnight.
Sources and uses built against the transaction: senior, junior, seller paper, rollover and the equity cheque, sized so the coverage test is satisfied at the price you intend to pay rather than at the price the structure happens to support.
One normalised package, two or three lenders approached in parallel, each aware the others are looking. Parallel is not a negotiating trick; it is the only way to hold a timetable when any single credit committee can slip three weeks.
Term sheets compared on what actually binds: coverage, amortisation, covenants, personal recourse, and behaviour in a bad year. The headline rate is rarely the expensive part of a facility.
In a competitive process
When an adviser decides which bidder gets the management session, they are not comparing headline numbers. They are estimating which party will still be there in ninety days. A structure that has been sized against a real coverage test, by somebody who runs these processes, answers that question in a way a number on a letter does not.
We sit on the other side of that table often enough to know precisely what it takes to be believed there.
We do not issue approvals, certificates or pre-qualifications, and we never will.
Only a lender makes a credit decision, and a document from an adviser implying otherwise is worth nothing to the seller's adviser reading it, whatever it is called. What we provide is a structure, a range, and a lender process actually under way - which is the thing that stands up when somebody checks.
Before you ask
Every listing on the marketplace carries an indicative debt capacity range computed from its own figures, with a plain line on whether that reaches the asking price. Signed in, with a completed acquirer profile, you also get one line comparing it against the capital you have already told us about. Nothing to fill in, and nothing to wait for.
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Indicative only. Not a credit decision, an offer of finance, or a commitment by any lender.
Terms
Fee agreed per transaction and credited in full against any subsequent engagement fee. No retainer.
Our referral fee is identical across every lender on the panel and is disclosed to the borrower. Ranking cannot be purchased.
We do not take a referral fee on a financing that funds a transaction in which we act as adviser to the seller. Being paid by both sides of the same table is not a conflict to be managed, it is one to be refused.
Indicative only. Not a credit decision, an offer of finance, or a commitment by any lender. Nothing on this page is an offer of finance, a credit decision, or legal, tax or investment advice.