Fund finance advisory services

Experienced and independent fund advisory services

The private nature of the fund finance market makes it difficult for fund managers to ensure they’re achieving the best possible terms. In a constantly evolving and fast-paced environment, you need to ensure you have a flexible and comprehensive solution in place at each stage of the fund lifecycle. There’s also the challenging task of seeking out the most appropriate lender or lender panel to assist you with establishing your fund finance facilities, who will consider your commercial, operational, and structural requirements. This process isn’t always an easy one, as the capabilities and benefits that each lender can offer are unique.

Having the right facilities in place not only gives you a competitive advantage in the marketplace but also ensures a speedier execution, allows you to distribute capital back to investors or invest in the portfolio and unlock the value of your assets and enhance IRR.

Professional independent advisory services

With a global team of more than 4,000 employees, our, independent, advisory services can help you implement facilities across the full range of fund finance products across all asset classes, including traditional capital call facilities, NAV facilities, hybrids, GP and executive financing, manager liquidity lines and umbrella facilities. Our experts have deep experience gained from both sides of the funding relationship, drawn from top tier structured finance, leveraged finance and fund finance banking meaning you can focus on enhancing your returns.

Our fund finance services:

• Negotiating the optimal pricing and commercial terms
• Establishing the optimum lender group
• Formulation of the borrowing base to give the maximum advance rate
• Overview of the full lender market
• Ensuring all facility features are built-in from the outset
• Mitigating liquidity coverage ratio
• Working with you to identify the shape of your funding requirements
• Drafting and negotiating the term sheet
• Bank account opening
• Advising on LPA and fund documents to ensure your desired facility information requests
• Co-ordinate due diligence requests and KYC requirements
• Running the deal closing process
• Acting as a central liaison