Financing Solutions for Independent Sponsors
JWC's Value Proposition
As an independent sponsor, you juggle many tasks while pursuing an acquisition. Retaining JWC to arrange capital can significantly amplify your chance of success. How?
By Providing Access to a Wider Capital Provider Network: JWC maintains an established network of capital providers, eliminating much of the preliminary legwork at the front end of the capital raise process and greatly increasing the odds of securing financing with acceptable sponsor economics.
By Enabling Transaction Efficiency: By engaging JWC to manage a highly systematic capital raise process, you can focus on the transaction's nuts and bolts—diligence, documentation, and transition planning. This streamlines the process and potentially accelerates the close timeframe.
By Leveraging Professional Expertise and Experience: JWC uses its structuring experience and knowledge of market conditions to advise on how best to position your opportunity in a way that generates capital provider interest.
By Enhancing Credibility with Sellers and Capital Providers: Working with a reputable intermediary such as JWC can signal seriousness and lower execution risk to sellers and potential capital providers.
JWC's Capital Source Network
JWC leverages an extensive network of private capital providers to support the unique needs of independent sponsors. This network includes private equity funds, commercial banks, mezzanine lenders, and family offices. By partnering with JWC, independent sponsors can access a deep and diversified capital base, ensuring the flexibility and support needed to execute deals efficiently and effectively.
JWC's Success-Based Fee Model
JWC's competitive success-based fee model links our compensation directly to the outcome of your transaction and does not distinguish between capital classes, allowing it to provide unbiased capital structuring advice.
What Makes for a Successful JWC Raise Assignment?
JWC will consider a potential deal to be in the center of our fairway if it contains the following elements:
- Proprietary deal in the final negotiation stage or an auction/brokered deal under LOI
- Industrials, business services, or healthcare services
- Adjusted EBITDA >= $4 million
- Engagement raise amount >=$15 million
- Credible value creation thesis that results in projected 5-year MoIC>=4.0x
- Strong leadership story (sponsor, operator, and management team)
- Customer and supplier diversity
- Low capex requirement
- Meaningful equity roll by the seller
- Meaningful cash investment by the sponsor (sources can be friends and family)