If your route to entrepreneurship lies in acquisition rather than a start-up, we can support you in raising the debt finance you’ll need to progress your Search Fund journey.
Our experienced Corporate Lending Team can arrange flexible finance solutions to fund your acquisition through a tailored debt package that sits alongside your equity funding. We assess every enquiry individually and work with advisors, accountants, SMEs, sponsors and searchers to create bespoke solutions that enable you to achieve your ambition.
Find out how we support searchers in their Search Fund journeys.
Search Funds provide a route to entrepreneurship for ambitious individuals who possess the necessary skills for entrepreneurship, but recognises the benefits of focusing their journey on acquiring an existing, established business that they can grow, rather than starting from scratch. The searcher seeks commitment and capital from a pool of investors to fund the search phase where they identify an SME to acquire.
Once identified and terms have been agreed, the searcher will typically need to source a debt package to sit alongside their equity funding to finance their purchase. They’ll then operate the business as CEO, backed by the existing management team to accelerate its growth. The searcher benefits from performance linked equity and a CEO or Executive position in the acquired entity. They also build their career in entrepreneurship with the support and backing of experienced investors.
As a leading provider of debt finance in the Search Fund space in the UK, we’re uniquely positioned to support high-calibre searchers in their journey to entrepreneurship through acquisition.
Our funding is available for UK based Limited companies operated by a high-calibre searcher, seeking debt finance as a component of their funding mix to support the acquisition of a cash generative SME.
At Shawbrook, we have worked with a number of searchers as they embark on their journey to entrepreneurship.
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