MBOs Part 3 – Funding
Quite often, a management team will not be in a position to finance a transaction themselves; lending in one guise or another will therefore be a common feature of a deal; the question will be what form should that take; on one particular deal, we had to cover not just bank funding, but also borrowing against the company’s invoices, smaller investors that had agreed to put in private funds and even a sale and lease-back of assets with a commercial lender, to help raise sufficient cash to do the deal!