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NAV financing
At-a-glance
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Overview
NAV Financing seeks to provide secure, flexible capital to European and U.S. middle market Private Equity Sponsors, looking to enhance value creation and increase equity returns. This innovative financing approach involves lending, cross-collateralized by a diversified portfolio of assets.
Strategy highlights
- Attractive Risk-Return Profile: The strategy targets investment grade risk while seeking to deliver attractive direct lending returns through conservative loan-to-value ratios typically up to 25%, with a strong focus on downside management. The fund-level lending approach provides diversification benefits through portfolio effects that can mitigate single asset risk.
- Competitive Market Position: Arcmont brings distinctive competitive strengths including extensive sourcing capabilities with 1,200+ sponsor relationships, deep asset knowledge from reviewing ~15,700 investment opportunities globally, and specialist NAV expertise combining bottom-up credit analysis with LP insights and Churchill's secondaries sector perspective.
- Robust Risk Management: The strategy employs comprehensive downside management measures including cash flow sweeps, covenants, security packages, and margin ratchets. The time-tested underwriting rigor, backed by €35 billion deployed over multiple cycles, ensures disciplined credit approach with in-depth due diligence.
- Enhanced Alignment: Fund-level lending creates alignment of interests with sponsors compared to asset-level financing, as PE sponsors face higher franchise risk. This structure, combined with lower individual company default risk given the diversified collateral base, provides attractive returns opportunities with low volatility and contractual floating rate returns that hedge against inflation.
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- 201 Bishopsgate, London, United Kingdom
