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Factoring and Invoice Discounting –
A Creative Business Finance Guide
by Mark Blayney
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Business finance brokers with information on raising business cash for everything from expansion, property development and MBO and MBIs to refinancing and turnarounds; including commercial mortgages, factoring, invoice discounting, mezzanine, bridging, sale and leaseback; with free 'how much can you borrow' ready reckoner.

 
Property Development Finance

Rescue from bankruptcy hearing
Client had purchased sites using £5m in bridging loans that he was then unable to service as his development funding fell through leaving him facing default interest rates of up to 5%pm and a bankruptcy petition.

Introduced to a JV partner that bought out the bridging debt and provided the development finance to build out the sites.


Single property development
Funding arranged for purchase of site at £250k plus build out finance for developer tackling first project.


Development of a block of flats
Syndicated loans raised to fund 99% of a £15m project purchase and development of a block of flats.


Site purchase loan
£2m bridging purchase of a development site.


Rolling bridging loans
Sufficient bridging loan obtained after planning permission achieved to fund exercising an option to buy a site and refurbish the first units, allowing the loan to be paid down.
Further bridging loans then raised in rolling programme to refurbish remaining phases.


4 day bridge
Client required bridging loan within 4 days or risked forfeiting deposit. Lender on site 7am the following morning and loan drawn down within deadline.
 
Business Finance


Crane hire business T/O £2m

Company was coming under pressure from the bank to repay its borrowings following an independent accountant’s investigation.
Business refinanced with a confidential invoice discounting line and refinancing of plant and equipment.

Manufacturing company T/O £20m
Company facing severe cash problems from overtrading as a result of leap in turnover from £12m pa, to £20m pa.
Property sale and leaseback arranged that achieved £2.3m from a property valued at £1.5m dropping £1m+ into company’s cashflow.

Electrical engineering T/O £1m
Company looking for funds to expand but unable to raise finance due to ‘contractual’ CIS nature of the work.
Invoice discounter introduced who provided a 50% advance against applications.

Freight forwarder T/O £2m
Unhappy with current invoice discounter.
Replacement introduced providing better facilities

Furniture importer / retailer T/O £4m
Company got into difficulty as a result of overstocking leading to a withdrawal of support by its bank.
Funding package of invoice discounting and stock finance arranged to fund a ‘phoenix’ buy out by the management.

Confidential MBO
Business to be bought included a property included in the sale at an apportioned value of £1m.
Using a bridging loan, to then be replaced with a commercial mortgage on a refinancing basis, funding of £1.1m (or 110% of purchase price) was raised against this property.

Manufacturing company T/O £12m
Refinancing of business required.
£1.5m raised against a property valued at £1.2m through a sale and leaseback.

Chilled food business T/O £3m
Business in need of cash injection.
New invoice discounter introduced to provide greater headroom and funds raised against property outside the business.

Horses / jewellery
Temporary funding raised against personal jewellery and string of racehorses to clear business debts.

 

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© Mark Blayney 2006