Your portfolio companies need growth capital that doesn’t dilute returns or complicate exits. We provide equipment financing that preserves equity, enhances EBITDA, and moves at the speed of your deals—because we think like investors, not lenders.
Expertise Matters.
“Our platform company needed to roll out automation across six facilities in 90 days to hit our integration synergies. Senior debt was tapped out, and we weren’t bringing in a mezz layer for equipment. First National structured $23 million in operating leases that kept the spend off-balance-sheet and preserved our debt capacity for add-ons. They closed in parallel with our acquisition. That’s a partner who gets private equity.”
Enhancing Value Creation
Equipment financing in the private equity ecosystem requires a fundamentally different approach. You’re not just buying assets—you’re engineering returns, managing covenants, and building platforms for exit. While traditional lenders get tangled in your complex cap structures and recoil at your leverage ratios, we see the operational improvements that drive multiple expansion.
Differentiated Capital Capabilities for Sponsors and Portfolio Companies
Private equity operates on different timelines, metrics, and incentives than traditional businesses. Your financing partner should too. We structure equipment capital that aligns with hold periods, preserves flexibility for exits, and never creates complications for your next transaction.
Straightforward capital deployment for transaction sizes from $500,000 to $250,000,000+
Risk-based pricing yielding highly competitive rates for strong and challenged-credit scenarios.
Terms from 24 to 180 months depending on assets financed with amortizations up to 20 years or more.
Wider credit appetite born from balance sheet strength and extensive 3rd party institutional funding relationships
Non-dilutive, high capacity financing with no covenants and flexible collateral requirements
Full complement of operating lease, capital lease and loan structures, including sales-leaseback and refinance options.
Typical Projects Financed:
Successful portfolio company transformations require strategic equipment investments at every stage of the value creation journey. These are the critical asset categories that drive operational improvements and multiple expansion.
It All Begins With A Conversation
We listen. We live out-of-the-box. We solve problems. And we get deals done. Let’s do this.
