Structured Finance

Late-stage structured finance is the provision of capital for pre-realisation event financings:

Purposes

Accelerate growth, acquisition finance, shareholder liquidity, or balance sheet optimisation;

Investments

May be in the form of convertible loans, direct equity or a combination thereof;

Our expectations

Investments are structured to provide minority interest with investor right and board/mentoring focus;

Term

Exit events should be targeted;

Our focus is on owner-managed small and mid-market companies

  • Funding aimed at companies whose development has progressed beyond VC/private funding but before senior debt availability
  • Investment size – £0.5 million to £10 million
  • If appropriate, larger deal sizes may be financed through co-investment arrangements
  • Our sector focus – consumer products, business services, media and proven technology

Transactions

The investments will be primarily in UK and Western Europe companies; additionally, North America businesses that are looking to list in Europe may be considered. The sector focus is on consumer products, business services, media and proven technology where the Principals have extensive experience.

Bond Capital Partners looks to invest in companies with the following essential characteristics:

  • Experienced management team
  • Realisation event within 60 months – this needs to be committed to by the management and also be a realistic possibility
  • Strong prospective cash flows/growth prospects
  • Revenue/earnings sufficient to cover interest
  • Leadership ambitions in market niche
  • Deal size £0.5m to £10m

The investment may comprise of a combination of equity and debt instruments including subordinated loan notes, with detachable warrants, exercisable post realisation event. The debt is repayable at the end of the term, or on occurrence of the realisation event.

The investment appraisal process is subject to a rigorous but focused due diligence, but we aim to complete the whole process efficiently.

Investment may be required for:

  • Ramping growth in the business through:
  • New markets/products
  • Sales force expansion
  • Marketing;
  • Consolidating/ realigning shareholder interests to facilitate a realisation event
  • Strengthening balance sheet/optimising capital structure; or strategic acquisition