Growth and expansion capital
Primary capital for scaling businesses, market entry, acquisition programmes and platform development.
Capital Solutions and Private Capital
Capital shaped around the objective, not the product.
We help companies, sponsors, asset owners and families raise and structure private capital across the capital structure, from growth equity and preferred instruments to asset-backed and structured financings.
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Overview
Private capital markets have deepened substantially, and the range of available instruments now allows financing to be matched precisely to duration, cash-flow profile, control preferences and risk appetite. The difficulty is no longer access alone but selection.
We map the realistic universe of capital providers, model the effect of each structure on ownership, governance, covenants, dilution and future flexibility, and lead the process to a documented outcome.
As an independent adviser we do not underwrite or place our own balance sheet against a client mandate, which allows the recommendation to follow the analysis.
Capabilities
What we do in this practice.
Minority and preferred equity
Liquidity and financing that preserve control, with careful negotiation of governance, information and downside protections.
Structured and hybrid capital
Convertible, participating, PIK and payment-flexible instruments matched to development or seasonal cash-flow profiles.
Private credit and direct lending
Senior, unitranche, junior and holdco financings sourced from direct lenders, credit funds and institutional balance sheets.
Asset-backed and specialty finance
Receivables, contracted revenue, real assets, fund finance and other collateral-supported structures.
Sponsor solutions
Continuation vehicles, NAV facilities, secondaries and fund-level liquidity for private-market managers.
Situations we address
Where this work typically begins.
Growth financing
Shareholder liquidity
Acquisition funding
Recapitalisation
Development and project capital
Fund and portfolio liquidity
How we work
A disciplined sequence.
Define
Use of proceeds, quantum, duration, control preferences and acceptable terms.
Structure
Instrument design, seniority, security, protections and pricing benchmarks.
Market
Targeted outreach to relevant capital providers under controlled disclosure.
Negotiate
Term-sheet competition, documentation, conditions and completion.
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Mergers and Acquisitions
Strategic counsel on acquisitions, divestitures, mergers, joint ventures and contested situations.
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Liability management, refinancing, restructuring and liquidity strategy in complex situations.
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Independent advice on IPO readiness, equity issuance, equity-linked instruments and investor positioning.
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