Raising Capital
Blackmore Partners focuses on raising funds for its clients from private equity firms. Generally, target companies are in the size of $15 million to $500 million, with an EBITDA of $5 million or greater; however, distressed opportunities are considered. Blackmore follows an industry agnostic approach; however the firm specializes in the following industries: consumer products and services, manufacturing, distribution, business products and services, food and beverage, healthcare, energy, and technology. Nearly all targets are located in North America or Western Europe. Nevertheless, all opportunities are considered for backing. Blackmore (and Akin Bay through their investment-banking partnership) advises companies who are looking to buy, sell, or merge in: creating liquidity and monetizing their equity value, managing the retirement of major shareholders and the management succession process, attracting a financial sponsor or strategic investor to fund growth and expansion no longer possible within the company's current resources, and arranging and funding ownership transitions to existing management, to permit the continuation of the business with a new and experienced management team.
Through Blackmore Partners' partnership with Akin Bay, the following types of securities are issued:
| Debt: | Equity: |
| • Senior Secured Bank Debt | • Common Share |
| • Senior Secured Notes | • Convertible Shares |
| • Secured Term A & B Loans | • Preferred Shares |
| • Second Lien Notes | |
| • Mezzanine Debt/Notes | |
| • High Yield Notes/144A | |
| • High Yield Bonds |