Leveraged Buyouts and Lantern Capital Advisors

Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Lantern Capital Advisors is a corporate financial consulting firm and leveraged buyout advisor to profitable, private companies.  As corporate financial consultants, Lantern helps companies raise capital in order to finance leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, or partner buyouts.  In that role, we often help companies finance leveraged or management buyouts on primarily an all debt basis which enables management to gain operating and financial control of the company either upon completion of the buyout or over time as the financing is repaid.    

This alternative approach for leveraged buyout financing is unusual because most leveraged buyouts or management buyouts are financed by a private equity firm or “‘financial sponsor”.  In those leveraged management buyouts, the private equity firm typically ends up owning 80-90% of the company stock, even though most of the buyout financing is provided by third party debt providers. By using debt to finance the buyout, these private equity firms are able to invest little of their own capital and generate spectacular returns for their investors that dwarf the value realized by management or the selling owner.

Our approach is to use those same debt financing sources and techniques to fund the leveraged buyout, but without the private equity firm involved.   As a result all the ownership is shared between management and the selling owner. This can be attractive to a seller because the purchase price is often higher than a private equity firm will pay, while management gets the opportunity to own substantially more equity (often 80% or more). This type of buyout is financially and personally rewarding for the owners and managers because they have worked together for years to build the value in the company.

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1. Management Buyouts and Non-Sponsored Management Buyouts
   

2.   Leveraged Buyouts
   

3.   Growth Capital
   

4.   Acquisition Financing
   

5.   Corporate Debt Refinancing
   

6.   Initial Public Offerings / Going Public
   

7.   Middle Market Divestitures
   

8.   Corporate Financial Planning
   

9.   Corporate Financial Advisor
   

10.   Corporate Financial Consulting
    

11.   Professional Business Plans
    

12.   Raising Capital Consulting Philosophy