How We Help
Not Just Lenders
How We
Assist in Outcomes
Guided by nearly 100 years of aggregate middle-market investing experience of our three Managing Partners, we possess a foundational commitment to tailoring and delivering bespoke financial solutions in all market conditions. We believe that our value-additive capabilities, enhanced by the involvement of our corporate operating partners, provide benefits well beyond our capital capabilities. Whether it be growth or acquisition capital, a corporate carve out or a roll-up, or simply changing paths, our differentiated approach can assist driving desired outcomes.
INDEPENDENT
PRIVATE EQUITY SPONSORS
PRIVATE EQUITY SPONSORS
FUNDED PRIVATE
EQUITY SPONSORS
EQUITY SPONSORS
NON-SPONSORED,
CLOSELY-HELD COMPANIES
CLOSELY-HELD COMPANIES
INDEPENDENT
PRIVATE EQUITY SPONSORS
PRIVATE EQUITY SPONSORS
INDEPENDENT PRIVATE EQUITY SPONSORS
Backcast understands the challenges facing the independent sponsor community. We have developed a thoughtful approach towards capital formation and value enhancement, refined through decades of supporting the independent sponsor community.Backcast can provide both debt and non-control equity capital, acting as a single source capital provider and streamlining the capital raising process for independent sponsors. Backcast offers a corporate operating partner network comprised of seasoned industry executives who have experience conducting due diligence, participating on boards of directors, filling C-suite positions, and offering many other value adds. Backcast believes that its involvement early in a process can provide the independent sponsor with added credibility to prevail.
Other financial firms lend, Backcast Partners.
FUNDED PRIVATE
EQUITY SPONSORS
EQUITY SPONSORS
FUNDED PRIVATE EQUITY SPONSORS
Backcast’s Managing Partners have been supporting the funded private equity sponsor community for nearly three decades. Our capital thoughtfulness, flexibility in structuring, and decades-long investment experience allow us to provide solutions-oriented capital for non-commoditized transactions or complex situations that require a capital provider with PE-like acumen.Our reputations and engagement with more than 100 sponsors have been shaped by early and mindful assessments of critical complexities and their prospective, bespoke solutions, certainty of execution, ongoing value-additive resources through our corporate operating partners, and navigating unforeseen circumstances and market conditions with an unclouded, solution-oriented mentality.
Other financial firms lend, Backcast Partners.
NON-SPONSORED,
CLOSELY-HELD COMPANIES
CLOSELY-HELD COMPANIES
NON-SPONSORED, CLOSELY-HELD COMPANIES
Backcast’s Managing Partners have been supporting family and management owned companies for decades. We have significant experience in a wide array of M&A transactions, inter-generational family ownership transfers and management buyouts.The flexibility we offer in providing both debt and equity capital can allow owners to achieve their business goals with less balance sheet pressure. We believe that our corporate operating partner network of seasoned industry executives can deliver value and help to professionalize family and management owned companies and/or prepare them for the transition to institutional ownership.
Other financial firms lend, Backcast Partners.
Investment Criteria
$7 – $30mEBITDA
$15 – $150mDEAL SIZE
AgnosticINDUSTRY
North AmericaGEOGRAPHY
Transaction Types
- Buyouts / Acquisitions
- Recapitalizations
- Growth capital
- Refinancings
Ownership Groups
- Independent Sponsors
- Funded Private Equity Sponsors
- Management Owned / Non-Sponsored
Capital Structure
- Senior & Junior secured debt
- Mezzanine capital
- Preferred equity
- Non-Control Equity Co-Investments