Cash Flow Lending

As our core business, our lending arm was established in 2007 to fill the void of institutional cash flow lenders to an underserved marketplace left by the recent consolidation of capital providers. As a cash flow lender, we provide unitranche and junior capiatl loans to lower middle market, non-distressed companies generating predictable cash flow, seeking acquisition financing, refinancing of existing debt, recapitalization or growth finance. 

We are open to companies within most industries, having previously underwritten loans to manufacturing, distribution, business service, healthcare, consumer and information technology companies. While we specialize in acquisition finance and management buyouts, we also provide capital to firms in need of growth capital, bridge financing, recaps or shareholder distributions. We are willing to underwrite opportunistic deals, with or without sponsors, as a lead lender or participant. Our team of experienced professionals is capable of closing deals that require a quick turnaround from due diligence to funding.

Independent Sponsor Activities 

As an independent sponsor, Boone invests in lower middle market companies, either taking a control position alongside management, or as a co-investor alongside other independent sponsors. The Boone team has extensive experience in origination, due diligence, investment, operations and management of companies in the lower middle marketplace. Target industries include a broad array of sectors, including healthcare services, manufacturing, business services and information technology.  

Asset Based Lending

Realizing that many of our clients frequently require financing needs for specific collateral, we can also provide more traditional asset based financing solutions. for small and lower middle market companies that are seeking more traditional credit facilities through our investment partners, whether it be a local or regional bank or a non-bank lender such as a commercial finance company or a hedge fund. We can provide the following types of asset based lending facilities: 

·         Accounts Receivable

·         Inventory

·         Factoring

·         Purchase Orders                                                                                                             

·         Machinery & Equipment

·         Real Estate

·         Lease Finance

·         SBA Guaranteed

Advisory Services

Complementing its principal activities, we work with select lenders and investors to broaden the scope of our principal activities and to provide the optimal financing structure for issuers and intermediaries in such cases that don’t fit our lower middle market cash flow credit criteria. Merchant banking and advisory activities are conducted through our distribution network of lenders and investors with whom our principals have transacted more than one hundred investments over the past 30 years. Representative transactions include structured equity, management buyouts, leveraged recaps, growth and project financings.