Leveraged Acquisition Finance

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About Us

Bank of Ireland’s Leveraged Acquisition Finance team are specialists in leveraged finance – arranging, underwriting and distributing transactions across a broad range of geographies. With extensive experience across all sectors, the team focuses on providing debt finance solutions to leading private equity houses in the European leveraged buyout markets. With offices in Ireland, the UK, and Continental Europe, the Leveraged Acquisition Finance team is comprised of over 70 dedicated professionals, who exhibit a flexible, commercial approach and benefit from a streamlined decision-making process. The team transact on a pan-European basis and across a variety of sectors.

Our services

The Leveraged Acquisition Finance team provides a comprehensive product range including senior and subordinated debt, unitranche and super senior facilities. Working with colleagues across the Division, the team can also provide access to other services such as structured products, interest rate and exchange rate hedging instruments and cash management solutions. In addition, a dedicated Portfolio Management team monitors individual asset performance and manages transactions post-completion.

The transaction scope includes:

  • Management buy-outs and buy-ins
  • Leveraged buy-outs
  • Leveraged corporate acquisitions
  • Public to privates
  • Capital re-organisations
  • Capital expansions

Why choose us?

  • Long term commitment to the asset class
  • Timely and responsive credit culture and process
  • Creative and innovative debt solutions
  • Strong track record of successful deliverability
  • Consistently delivering high levels of customer satisfaction
  • Professionalism and commitment
  • Long term asset holder
  • Pan-European footprint
  • Ability to execute cross-border transactions

Meet your team

United Kingdom

The teams cover the UK & Nordics, and the Benelux markets and is an established player in the mid-market providing a range of capital solutions to both club and underwritten transactions.

Head of Leveraged Acquisition Finance - Europe
Jerome Bonan
Head of UK & Nordics - Leveraged Acquisition Finance
Daniel Rylander
Head of Benelux - Leveraged Acquisition Finance
Wikash Bhagwanbali
France

L’équipe Financement d’Acquisitions de Bank of Ireland est solidement établie sur le marché Européen du Leveraged Finance, offrant des solutions de financements aux fonds d’investissement les plus renommés. La banque fait partie des Arrangeurs les plus actifs du marché.

Les équipes de Financement d’Acquisitions comptent plus de 70 professionnels repartis dans 5 bureaux en Europe arrangeant des transactions aussi bien en Irlande, au Royaume-Uni, en Europe Continentale. Bank of Ireland offre à ses clients une palette exhaustive de services, incluant notamment des financements Senior et subordonnés supportés par des équipes de Syndicated Finance.

Head of Leveraged Acquisition Finance - Europe
Jerome Bonan
Head of Leveraged Acquisition Finance - France
Bastien Lefèvre
Germany

Seit 2006 hat die Bank of Ireland eine auf Akquisitionsfinanzierungen spezialisierte Niederlassung in Frankfurt und hat sich seit dem als ein führender Anbieter für Fremdfinanzierungslösungen bei Unternehmenskäufen am deutschsprachigen Markt etabliert. Das Team arbeitet grenzüberschreitend mit den Büros in Irland, UK, Frankreich, und Spanien zusammen und kann so auf die Expertise von über 70 Professionals zurückgreifen. Das umfangreiche Produktspektrum reicht von Senior- und Unitranche-Lösungen bis zu Second-Lien und Mezzanine Transaktionen, die als Club Deal oder auch als Underwriting strukturiert werden können.

Head of Leveraged Acquisition Finance - Europe
Jerome Bonan
Head of Leveraged Acquisition Finance - Germany
Thomas Grau
Spain

Creado en 2019, el equipo de Financiación de Adquisiciones para España y Portugal está basado en Madrid y está compuesto actualmente por 7 profesionales. Desde 2019 ha completado 70 transacciones, incluyendo financiaciones senior y unitranche.
Con oficinas en Irlanda, Reino Unido, España, Francia y Alemania, Bank of Ireland Leveraged Acquisition Finance cuenta con más de 70 profesionales especializados que prestan servicio a una amplia variedad de sponsors financieros nacionales e internacionales.

Head of Leveraged Acquisition Finance - Europe
Jerome Bonan
Head of Leveraged Acquisition Finance - Spain
Beltran Paredes