For business owners and entrepreneurs looking to acquire a minority investment or a majority stake in a company,  Franklin Place Capital (FPC) provides a turn-key process that can greatly benefit your organizations’ growth objectives.  Whether you are looking to grow by acquiring a strategic competitor, backward integrate your company with an acquisition, or acquire a complimentary business, we have a proven buy-side process that generates results every time.

The scope of our Buy-Side Advisory services include:

• FPC evaluates your company's growth objectives to create a written investment thesis to help you prioritize what’s important for your organization’s growth goals (the “Plan").
• If needed, we bring several decades of lending and capital raising experience to help you evaluate, structure and source the best combination of debt and junior capital to each acquisition assignment.
• We utilize your Plan to assist with the identification, validation and design of a targeted acquisition audience.
• FPC approaches each target on a confidential basis with the intent of understanding their personal and business objectives, acquisition fit, and timetable for a potential business combination.
• FPC manages the transaction process with each acquisition target
• Transaction structure assistance
• Turn-key transaction process management (from start to closing)
• Assistance in the initial due diligence and valuation negotiations
• Assistance in the selection and management of other outside advisors
• Advising, evaluating and negotiating the Letter of Interest
• Due diligence assistance
• Transaction closing assistance
• Post-closing - working capital true-up

For many business owners, a recapitalization can often be used to achieve financing or liquidity needs.  Some common objectives might involve creating liquidity for a shareholder, reducing debt, generating cash to fund growth, or an arrangement of all three.  A recapitalization allows business owners to take some, but not all, of their investment off the table.  By reducing the business’s financial leverage, a recapitalization allows the business owner to benefit from future growth with reduced personal risk.  

Franklin Place Capital’s approach creates the flexibility for business owners to set aside a pool of liquidity now, while continuing to operate their company and to partake in profits as the company continues to grow.  For business owners wishing to recapitalize their business for growth, debt refinancing, shareholder-liquidity or for restructuring purposes, FPC brings decades of finance and banking experience supported by a vast network of funding sources including equity and debt investors, venture capital, leasing companies, senior & junior debt, and a variety of other financial resources.

An injection of capital can often be the catalyst that’s needed to help your business with its growth objectives.  At Franklin Place Capital, we work to evaluate the most economically attractive and flexible capital structures consistent with current market conditions and owner objectives.

From senior debt to equity, FPC assists companies seeking to raise funds for a variety of purposes including debt refinancing, capital to fund organic or acquisition-related growth, and capital for shareholder liquidity purposes.  We leverage several decades of experience—in a variety of capital markets and lending roles in banking—to identify the best structure, source and cost of capital, allowing us to quickly navigate a clear path to your funding objectives. Our extensive array of financial resources, built over decades, provides our clients with efficient solutions to sourcing equity and debt investors, venture capital, leasing companies, senior & junior debt, and a variety of other financial resources.

Many businesses tend to grow in cycles that fluctuate with the economy, their customers, and their suppliers.  While most companies enjoy periods of financial security and success, many more go through periods of financial stress and are in need of debt restructuring.  The professionals at Franklin Place Capital are experts at working with companies experiencing cashflow issues and financial distress including those who are seeking to replace their senior lender.   Our experience in these types of situations allows us to be your organization’s advocate, and effectively communicate patience, while you fix the business and we source alternative financing.