Blazehill provide flexible secured credit solutions to UK, European and US businesses.
We offer a range of products across the capital structure, including term loans, structured debt, hybrid ABL + cash flow and bridging finance, on a stretch senior, junior and bifurcated basis. We can lend up to £150m, with the ability to provide larger facilities alongside our funding partners.
Our flat decision-making structure and streamlined credit process enables us to deliver certainty of funding from the outset and execute transactions at speed.
PRODUCT OFFERING
We provide standalone solutions up to £150m, and through our market leading ICA principles have also developed an unrivalled ability to work alongside, or junior to, a range of lenders across the UK, Europe and the USA.
- Facilities: Committed term loan facilities from £10-150m, with ability to structure committed undrawn elements and tenures of 1-5 years
- Geographies: Multi-jurisdictional solutions to support businesses with global operations and assets
- Security: Stretch senior, junior and bifurcated structures with established ICA principles to enable seamless integration
- Pricing: Flexible cash/PIK return mechanisms to align interests across all stakeholders
- Monitoring: Bespoke covenant packages for every situation, with a highly commercial approach to structuring
CREDIT APPETITE
Our team members have extensive careers in financial advisory, asset based lending and cash flow lending. This breadth of credit experience across the team enables a dynamic approach to underwriting, allowing us to support businesses across a variety of sectors with a range of lending products.
- Cash Flow Lending: Assess past investment and go forward revenue drivers to increase leverage vs traditional institutions
- Asset Based Lending: Ability to consider all asset classes and are able to stretch beyond conventional ABL parameters
- Structural Hybrid: Where a transaction doesn’t fit a single product type we triangulate principles from across the credit landscape
- Industry Focus: Sector agnostic, with a leaning towards businesses with strong revenue visibility or asset coverage
- Relationship Driven: We support industry leading management teams and where appropriate can take board observer seats
- Due Diligence: Agile deal teams conduct financial, commercial and legal diligence in-house, reducing execution risk
PURPOSE
We work with privately owned, sponsor backed and listed businesses across a range of sectors who are looking for flexible value-add capital that is non-dilutive.
- Acquisition Financing: Traditional LBO; EOT; MBO; Carve Out; Public to Private
- Refinancing: Bank debt or shareholder loan refinancing to provide flexibility, raise additional capital or simplify the balance sheet
- Capex & Growth Finance: Strategic and transformational capital that accelerates change and is value accretive for shareholders, whilst remaining non-dilutive in nature
