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Support for major transactions

Companies aren’t staffed up in the normal course for major financing transactions.

Execution risks can be reduced with planning and ensuring any outside resources are lined up ahead of time.

Here’s a list of typical tasks:

1. Build a financial model with a base case and stress tests.
2. Decide on financing approach (types of debt or equity)
3. Gather up all necessary internal documentation.
4. Acquire up to date industry and market information.
5. Ensure valuations, property surveys and corporate records are current.
6. Assemble information packages.
7. Identify and contact potential lenders
8. Arrange meetings and distribute information.
9. Respond to questions, distribute supplementary information to all potential lenders.
10. Follow up for term sheets.
11. Rank selection criteria: price, terms, sense of ‘fit’.
12. Compare term sheets based on criteria.
13. Negotiate ‘indicated terms’ and detailed assumptions with leading candidate.
14. Agree on work fees, initiate credit application.
15. Respond to questions during credit processing.
16. Review committed terms, conditions and subjects.
17. Closing: finalize documentation and security.
18. Post-closing templates for reporting and compliance.
19. Post-closing interest rate swaps and hedging.

Does the company have the in-house capacity and expertise to get all of these tasks done?

Could the execution risk be reduced by getting some outside help? If so, give us a call.