M&A Debt Advisory and Equity Restructuring
From M&A to debt advisory, from equity to financial restructuring, from Credit Portfolio Advisory to SFABS, we provide investment banking services for mid-market companies. We offer a global understanding of industry sectors combined with strong local relationships with companies, investors, entrepreneurs, and financing institutions in the markets we and our clients operate in. Our clients’ needs and Alantra’s alignment with and understanding of those needs are central to the success of our investment banking business. Our expertise is built on long-established relationships that can outlast even individual leaders and shareholders. That is because having such a strong understanding of our clients’ businesses, both today and in the future, means that we nurture relationships rather than solely pursuing individual deals. And we have found this strategy to be more robust than focusing on the returns of individual deals because it means we think about businesses’ needs and growth holistically.
We approach markets differently to other institutions. We do not have a central head office with accompanying satellite offices. All of our offices have comprehensive execution teams including senior leadership and industry sector level expertise, all rooted in that market. And our local offices are supported by global sector teams for the industries we specialize in. That means we get to be creative and take an entrepreneurial approach to problem solving on behalf of our clients and offer a global perspective on industry developments, so they receive the best possible advice. Each of our clients has a committed team of bankers in its local market which means that the advice they receive is tailored, but with the Alantra group behind them, supporting them at an international level, whether they want to execute a cross border M&A deal, or raise funding to enter a new market.
We are one of the largest firms globally providing M&A consulting and strategic advisory support to the mid-market. We specialize in cross-border transactions; half of our deals since 2013 have involved counterparties based in more than one market. In mergers & acquisitions, we work with clients across the Americas, Asia, and Europe to provide sell-side and buy-side advice, advice on mergers and joint ventures, public tenders, and we are a one-stop shop for debt advisory. Our strategic advisory service offers fairness opinion and strategic portfolio advice. Our clients are corporations, private equity firms, family offices, and entrepreneurs.
By Andy Currie of Alantra
Meet The Author, Andy Currie
Andy is the Co-chairman of Alantra Investment Bank and the Managing partner of Alantra’s UK investment banking division. In 1998 he founded Catalyst Corporate Finance, which over 20 years grew to become one of the leading corporate finance advisory firms to the UK mid-market. Andy led the merger of Catalyst Corporate Finance with Alantra in 2017.
Andy’s time is spent predominantly with clients, both leading and working alongside other Alantra partners in the delivery of our services. He focuses on the professional services and industrials sectors, as well as advising private equity, bank consortia and other complex shareholder structures.
Andy has advised a wide range of clients on both UK and international transactions. Examples include the sales of Maine Pointe to SGS and Shimtech to Auctus Industries and private equity/debt capital transactions for SLR, Foster + Partners, Aspen Pumps and Alcumus.
Alantra
Alantra is an independent global mid-market financial services firm providing investment banking, asset management, and private capital services to companies, families, and investors operating in the mid-market segment. The Group has over 650 professionals across Europe, the US, Latin America, and Asia.
Its Investment Banking division provides independent advice on M&A, debt advisory, financial restructuring, structured funding & asset backed securitizations, credit portfolio advisory and capital markets transactions, having advised on c. 750 deals for a total value of c. €187bn in the last four years. Alantra’s senior bankers and execution teams offer a global understanding of industry sectors combined with strong local relationships with the companies, investors, entrepreneurs, and financing institutions in each of its markets.
