Financial Sponsors
Overview
Macquarie Capital’s US Financial Sponsor Advisory team is dedicated to meeting the advisory and financing needs of the US financial sponsor community. This focus has allowed the team to develop a specialist understanding of the issues and considerations relevant to its clients.
The team provides a full range of services and the highest quality advice that add value at every stage of the investment lifecycle:
- acquisition services, including bidding strategy and committed acquisition financing
- value realization, including trade sale and public and private equity capital markets exits as well as recapitalizations
- restructuring and special situations advisory
- an appetite for creative capital deployment, including balance sheet lending and co-investment
- origination of proprietary ideas from the global Macquarie Capital network.
The team draws on the global strengths and capabilities of the broader Macquarie Capital group, including:
- sector specialization, creating an ability to provide deep connectivity to strategic players, delivering unique, actionable acquisition and an exit opportunity to clients
- a full spectrum of advisory services, including M&A and restructuring
- full service equity and debt capital markets capabilities.
Key transactions
| Year | Description | Transaction Value |
|---|---|---|
| Local | ||
| 2011 | Advisor to Neucel Specialty Cellulose, Ltd. on its sale to Zhejiang Fulida Ltd., a fiber-related subsidiary of Hangzhou Bay, China-based Fulida Holdings Group | Undisclosed |
| 2011 | Joint bookrunner and joint lead arranger on a senior secured credit facility for Kraton Polymers | $US350m |
| 2011 | Joint bookrunner on senior secured notes for Kraton Polymers | $US250m |
| 2010 | Restructuring advisor to Tensar, an Arcapita portfolio company | Undisclosed |
| 2010 | Sole bookrunner, sole lead arranger and syndication agent for the acquisition financing to support Littlejohn & Co's acquisition of Henniges Automotive Holdings, Inc. | Undisclosed |
| 2010 | Joint bookrunner and documentation agent on a $US290 million senior secured notes issuance and a $US300 million ABL revolver for Northern Tier Energy | $US590m |
| 2010 | Joint bookrunner on a leveraged loan for Centerplate Inc. | $US309m |
| 2010 | Financial advisor to York and Odyssey Investment Partners in the sale of York Risk Services, Inc. to ABRY Partners | Undisclosed |
| 2010 | Joint bookrunner and joint lead arranger on a senior secured credit facility for R3 Treatment Inc. | $US160m |
| 2010 | Advisor to MicroStar Logistics on its sale to Trilantic Capital Partners | Undisclosed |
| 2009 | Advisor to Centerplate on its acquisition of Boston Culinary Group and joint bookrunner, lead arranger, syndication agent and lender of its incremental senior secured term loan facility | Undisclosed |
| 2009 | Joint bookrunner on Blackstone-owned Pinnacle Foods' $US850 million term loan, $US25 million revolver and $US300 million senior unsecured notes, backing its $US1.3 billion acquisition of Birds Eye Foods | $US1,175m |