Leveraged Finance Advisory Services

Corporate Finance

Leveraged Finance Advisory Services

Leveraged finance is the debt market used when your capital structure needs more than a standard bank loan. It is how sponsors and CFOs fund acquisitions, recapitalize ownership, refinance maturities, and preserve equity while keeping operational control.

We help you run a lender-grade process from structure to closing, built around credit committee requirements, documentation reality, and execution certainty.

Request Indicative Terms

If you have an acquisition, recapitalization, or refinancing mandate and can share a clean data room, submit your file for underwriting review.

Who We Advise

Private Equity Sponsors

Platform acquisitions, add-ons, refinancings, and dividend recapitalizations where the debt package must survive lender scrutiny and hold up in documentation.

Founder-Owned And Management-Led Buyers

Acquisition finance and recapitalizations when you want debt capacity without giving away unnecessary equity, and you need a process lenders will respect.

CFOs Managing Maturity Risk

Repricing, maturity extension, covenant relief, and liquidity backstops where a weak process shows up as worse terms and slow execution.

Asset-Heavy Operators

Capex, roll-ups, and working capital pressure, including situations that touch structured solutions or Commercial Real Estate financing.

Mandates We Support

Mandate What We Deliver What Lenders Will Test
Acquisition Financing Leverage sizing, sources and uses discipline, lender targeting, term sheet process and closing coordination. Quality of earnings, add-backs, working capital behavior, sponsor support and purchase agreement timing.
Refinancing And Maturity Extension Replace near-term maturities, improve covenant headroom, simplify collateral and guarantor structure. Forecast credibility, covenant tightness, existing liens, intercreditor constraints and documentation quality.
Dividend Recapitalization Incremental debt capacity analysis, lender positioning, covenant and restricted payments negotiation support. Resilience of cash generation, downside case durability, pro forma leverage optics and cash leakage.
Growth And Roll-Up Capital Facility design that supports multiple acquisitions, pro forma flexibility, and clean reporting cadence. Integration risk, margin pressure, customer concentration, seasonality and covenant add-back discipline.

What We Actually Do

Structure Design And Credit Positioning

We translate your story into lender language: leverage capacity, downside risk, liquidity profile, and the control package lenders require.

  • Facility architecture and tranche sizing
  • Debt capacity and covenant headroom analysis
  • Lender universe fit and positioning

Lender-Grade Materials

Deals slow down when the materials are soft. We help you present the file in a way credit committees can approve.

  • Model cleanup and metric normalization
  • Management presentation and lender Q&A control
  • Data room index and diligence readiness

Term Sheet And Covenant Support

The headline spread is only the start. Definitions and baskets decide how free you are after closing.

  • All-in yield comparison and structural trade-offs
  • Restricted payments, acquisitions, debt, liens, and asset sales
  • EBITDA definitions, add-backs, pro forma and synergy treatment

Execution And Closing Coordination

We run the process with discipline so you do not lose weeks to drift, re-trades, and misaligned expectations.

  • Bid process, lender selection, and timeline control
  • Conditions tracking and deliverables management
  • Closing package coordination with counsel and counterparties

How we measure success: competitive terms with documentation that protects your flexibility, closes on time, and does not trigger surprises two quarters later.

Our Execution Process

Phase What Happens What You Receive
Underwriting Setup Mandate intake, structure options, lender mapping, diligence plan and timeline. Execution plan, data room index, initial lender targets.
Materials And Readiness Model normalization, lender pack build, management narrative, Q&A workflow. Lender-ready pack and diligence checklist.
Outreach And Terms Controlled outreach, term sheet collection, terms comparison across economics and documentation. Terms matrix and recommendation memo.
Diligence And Documentation Deep diligence coordination, covenant negotiation support, conditions tracking. Near-final terms, draft documents progress control.
Closing Funds flow coordination, security perfection tracking, post-close reporting cadence setup. Closing deliverables list and reporting calendar.

Borrower Readiness Checklist

If you want serious terms, show readiness early. It saves time and it strengthens lender confidence.

  • Last 3 years financials and current YTD monthly management accounts.
  • EBITDA bridge with support for add-backs and one-offs.
  • Forecast and assumptions tied to operational drivers.
  • Customer and supplier concentration schedules and contract summaries.
  • Working capital and seasonality analysis.
  • Capex plan split between maintenance and growth.
  • Corporate structure chart, existing debt schedule, and liens.

Market Reference Sources

We build around reference rates and market conventions. If you want primary sources, start here:

Related reading: See our educational guide on this topic at Leveraged Finance Guide.

Request Indicative Terms

Submit your mandate and we will respond with next steps and the information required for underwriting review.

This page is for general information only and does not constitute legal, tax, investment, or regulatory advice. Financely is not a bank, not a broker-dealer, and not a direct lender. Where required, engagements are coordinated with regulated broker-dealers, investment banks, legal counsel, and other specialists. All outcomes are subject to diligence, compliance screening (including KYC, AML, and sanctions), counterparty approvals, and definitive documentation.