For UK-based private equity companies, our Leveraged Finance team can help you take your business, and the businesses you invest in, where you want them to be, using complex, typically highly leveraged cash-flow based lending solutions including:
Working with the UK’s top private equity firms and using the specialist market knowledge of our sector teams, our Leveraged Finance team helps Mid-Market Enterprises realise their potential. With offices in London, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Bristol and Aberdeen they work alongside our national team of Leveraged Corporates Relationship Directors.
Managing Director, Head of Leveraged Finance UK
Mike has over 20 years of experience in Leveraged Finance, Financial Sponsor Coverage and Leveraged Portfolio Management. Working with Private Equity teams, Mike has originated and executed a wide variety of complex funding structures in the bank and capital markets space within both the UK and Continental Europe.
Previously, Mike was Head of Leveraged Finance Germany (covering Germany, Austria and Switzerland) and prior to that worked in the Leveraged UK and European teams within HSBC.
Horizon Capital is a private equity house that invests in technology and business service companies. Those companies typically operate in a growing and fragmented market and Horizon aims to support them on accelerated growth journey.
Managing Partner Luke Kingston sat down with Jamie Leach, Head of Financial Sponsor Coverage, UK to discuss their long-standing relationship with the bank.
They explored how the relationship expands over time with each transaction and how Horizon values not only the support of the Leveraged Finance team but also the broader coverage team as they bring to bear the capabilities of the wider bank.
