A report issued by Morgan Joseph TriArtisan noted that although the current syndicated loan and high-yield debt markets are booming, they remain largely unavailable for “turnaround” situations and lower middle-market borrowers seeking to raise funds.
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In 2003, John Schmidt, Mike Gallagher and Chuck Lillis founded Castle Pines Capital to design and manage channel finance programs for technology equipment manufacturers and distributors. The new company received its first bank financing in 2005 from the Lender Finance Division of Wells Fargo Capital Finance. By 2011, both borrower and lender had come to know each other’s businesses so well that an acquisition was a natural progression.
Today, as the economy inches slowly toward recovery, ABF Journal and the NYIC were given the opportunity to approach the bench once again … this time to gain Judge Rosemary Gambardella’s perspective on how things have played out since our last interview in 2009, as well as the Judge’s view on today’s realities.
It’s an all-to-familiar tune these days … a borrower in distress has no access to traditional financing or supplier credit to fulfill a spike in business. Purchase order financing can provide an excellent solution to turn such companies around and back on the road to financial stability.
This year’s TMA Mid-Atlantic Regional Symposium — Creating Stability in a Seesaw Environment — will be held at Atlantic City’s Borgata Hotel June 8-10. To offset the gravity of slated sessions, which range from municipal budget crises to the shift in the lending landscape, the symposium planning committee has selected a political satirist to deliver this year’s keynote speech.
It all started with a good idea. And like many other companies that established themselves based on this premise, so too did Thermo Credit. Ten years ago, a group of individuals came together to discuss the possibilities of launching a company to fill what they deemed the underserved niche in telecom, and by the next year, Thermo Credit was established to fill that need within the constantly evolving telecom industry.
After cutting his teeth at the ‘granddaddy’ of transportation financing companies, Richard Voreis, developed and has led Marquette Transportation Finance for more than eight successful years. Although the trucking industry faces economic challenges, Voreis does not envision the truckload segment, or its $350 billion annual revenues, to go away any time soon.
For the second year in a row, ABF Journal presents an outlook on the leading account debtor sectors. This year, Donald Barrick, founder and president of RMP Capital, scores the industries and reports account debtor credit appears to be improving … just in the nick of time.
Back in the spring of 2008, ABF Journal checked the pulse of the healthcare market and learned that lenders were optimistic. The real estate market was sinking, financial institutions were reining in lending, and government reimbursements were less than predictable, yet the outlook for healthcare seemed bright. Baby Boomers were aging, and people were living longer and requiring more services. Was this sector recession-proof? How did the economic downturn affect the industry, and where does it stand in 2011? Here, we examine the sector’s pressure points.