Client Success Stories

Acquisition Financing Deal Overview

• UK company with $1.2 million actual EBITDA to purchase its largest customer in US with $1.8 million actual EBITDA.
• Pro forma combined EBITDA of $6.0 million.
• Acquiring company had no cash to contribute as equity to the deal. They had implied equity value of about $2.5 million.
• Raised $25 million of senior and mezzanine debt.
• UK company avoided having to raise private equity, and did the whole deal with mezzanine debt.
• The owner ended up giving up only 4% of the equity to a mezzanine lender and ended up with 96% of the equity of the combined equity.
• The company successfully grew to $11 million of EBITDA within two years.
• The company was sold to a private equity sponsor for $78 million.
• The owner made $45 million on the sale.

Acquisition Financing Deal Overview # 2

• US company in the health care billing business seeking to grow through acquisition.
• The Company had only $500,000 in EBITDA and needed $3 million to fund its acquisition program.
• We helped present its EBITDA at $1.0 million on a pro forma basis.
• We raised their initial round of $3 million of mezzanine debt.
• Company successfully doubled its EBITDA and needed additional capital to grow.
• We raised an additional $17 million of senior and mezzanine capital to help it grow to $5 million in EBITDA.
• Company has grown its EBITDA 10 fold over the past two years.