Financial Sponsors Group
Akin Bay’s Financial Sponsors Group is dedicated to servicing financial sponsors, which include private equity firms, hedge funds and mezzanine funds. The Financial Sponsors Group is responsible for servicing financial sponsors acquiring, divesting or restructuring investments in portfolio companies as well as raising capital for acquisitions and recapitalizations. Our coverage includes: full acquisitions, minority growth equity investments and debt financing. Akin Bay covers over 400 financial sponsors in the US, Europe and Asia. We recognize the significant role financial sponsors play in the middle market and the importance of introducing a company to the right financial sponsor. Most of our sell-side and financing assignments involve financial sponsors at some point in the transaction.
Akin Bay believes that financial sponsors can benefit from our services in their search to acquire platform companies, to identify add-on acquisitions, sell mature portfolio companies and raise a variety of debt capital including high yield private or public bonds.
Value Added Services to Financial Sponsors
Idea Generation:
- Generation of creative ideas to deliver investment opportunities to our clients.
- Utilizing Akin Bay’s 20 years of transaction experience.
- Akin Bay’s extensive global network of contacts in key industries and financial service companies.
- Akin Bay’s extensive network of law and accounting firms.
Transaction Options:
- Buy-side Merger and Acquisition advisory services for Financial Sponsors.
- Leveraged acquisition finance which includes the following types of financing:
- Senior revolver and term loans
- Mezzanine loans
- High yield bonds
- Over $75.0 million private and public offering
- Under $75.0 million private offering
- 144A rated and un-rated offering
- Additional equity investment
Expansion/Growth/Development:
- Identification of add-on acquisitions from:
- Private companies
- Divestitures of divisions
- Public companies
- Analysis of restructuring/ refinancing or divestiture opportunities.
- Analysis of trends and changes in the industry and in competitors in order to take advantage of opportunities.
Exit:
- Sell-side Merger and Acquisition advisory services for Financial Sponsors.
- Extensive contacts and relationships with Strategic and Financial Sponsors.
- International network of private & public strategic buyers.