Capital

Capital Solutions & Corporate Financing:

 

Private Placements

Gideon Liberty arranges private financing for clients through placements of debt and equity. These financings enable client companies to fund strategic growth, acquisitions, working capital, capital expenditures, refinancings and recapitalizations. Our private placement services typically include:

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• Analyzing capital needs

• Structuring financing and terms to meet capital requirements and minimize financing costs

• Arranging required layers of financing, including senior debt, mezzanine debt, lines of credit, and common and preferred equity

• Preparing confidential financing memorandum for potential investors

• Accessing Gideon Liberty network of high–quality institutions and private investors

• Negotiating document and close the financing

 

Capital Restructuring
Gideon Liberty also arranges complex financial restructurings for companies facing significant financial challenges or for organizations facing bankruptcy reorganizations. Restructuring enables clients to reduce leverage and financing costs, extend maturities and improve liquidity. Our financing network includes serious investors who seek turnaround opportunities.

Gideon Liberty can assist clients with respect to:

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• Turnaround business plans

• Alternative financing sources

• Implementation of cost-cutting initiatives

 

Gideon’s Capital Services (CCS) division was formed to enhance the firm’s ability to deliver a broader range of liquidity and M&A alternatives to clients with higher end or more fundamentally established firms within of the middle market – companies with values of $10 million+ and in certain situations where value is high, yet the CEO's execution of growth or building a sustainable team of quality staff, possible lack of resources and finances to properly execute past revenue growth plans of at least 1-5 million+.

Transactions of this size are often more complex. Typically, they require a greater level of experience and offer more potential options for the owner or shareholders of the enterprise. Most importantly, they tend to involve well-seasoned buyers who are familiar with the process, are very clear about what they want and need to accomplish and know how to negotiate in order to achieve their desired goals.

CCS is positioned to meet the specialized needs of these clients and the demands of the transactions by offering:

 

 

• A focus on the goals of ownership and the knowledge and experience to offer the most appropriate transaction alternatives – an outright or partial sale, a recapitalization, private placement or an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).

• Access to eight teams of M&A professionals located in six Gideon offices.

• The combined experience of seasoned dealmakers who have executed numerous transactions in the $5 to $500-million range.

• The support of Gideon’s resources in terms of real-time data insights & leveraging, with market research & execution plans to ensure at worst your minimum growth goals are met or exceeded. We also provide tremendous buyer/investor access and ,ulti-channel marketing capabilities.

• Transaction teams and individuals with knowledge and experience in key industries and industry sectors.

• Relationships with buyers – private equity groups, public companies and large private corporations – and the ability to communicate with experienced and sophisticated buyers at their level.

• Relationships with financial institutions – transaction teams have knowledge of both senior and mezzanine markets and have contacts with lenders in both segments.

• A marketing strategy that is customized to the unique profile of each client company and designed to raise its visibility and target the most suitable acquirers.