Asset Backed

Financing key assets across industries and around the world.

We have been providing asset-backed capital to large, middle-market companies for more than 75 years. Our portfolio companies use the funds for a variety of critical business objectives, including new equipment, recapitalization, and refinancing, as well as expansion. We have the capacity to execute large transactions between $10 million and $250 million for companies with attractive growth prospects and positive cashflow.

Management teams return to us again and again because they trust our expertise and our ability to consistently deliver on what we promise.

Through our Commercial Asset Finance group, we have dedicated teams across the US who specialize in asset-backed financing.

Typical size

$10 million - $250 million

Typical uses

Equipment acquisitions
Company acquisitions
Recapitalization/Refinance
Capital for expansion

Structural characteristics

All industries except for commercial aviation
Public and private companies generating a minimum of $10 million EBITDA
Domestic and international companies
Equipment and real estate loans
Investment grade and below investment grade debt; typically, fixed-rate, long-term senior notes with select interest in floating-rate
Senior secured term loans
Tenor beyond traditional bank market capacity
Multi-currency capability

Issuer benefits

Manufacturers – property, plant, equipment
Food processing, dairies, auto parts industry, water treatment
Distribution – warehouse, material handling equipment, truck fleets
Equipment rental – fleet assets
Containers, cranes
Marine – brown and blue water
Helicopters, corporate aircraft
Landfills & waste processors
Rail

PARTNER STORY

Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc.

Marine vessel operator completes overall refinancing

Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. is a publicly traded company (NYSE Symbol: OSG) headquartered in Tampa, Florida. It is a leading provider of energy transportation services, delivering oil and other petroleum products throughout the coastal US flag markets. Founded in 1948, Overseas Shipholding has operated through multiple shipping cycles and is a preferred energy transportation provider to major oil companies, refiners, and traders. It is the operator and manager of one of the largest US-based petroleum tanker and articulated tug barge vessel fleets in the country operating primarily under the Jones Act.

We have maintained a direct calling effort with the senior management of Overseas Shipholding for several years, working on various financial projects. Eventually, they sought refinancing of their existing public Term Loan B, held by institutional investors, which was coming due within the next year. For the management team, the primary goal of the refinancing was to reduce the number of lenders in their loan facility and to partner with a more relationship-oriented lender group.

To that end, we worked with Overseas Shipholding in its capacity as the Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent, Mandated Lead Arranger, and Sole Bookrunner to provide a new $325 million Senior Secured Term Loan Credit Facility with a small club of lenders consisting primarily of insurance companies and banks. The new term loan also has an incremental $40 million accordion feature that was undrawn at closing, which could provide funding for growth and expansion.

We anchored the lead lending position and arranged the balance of the transaction under a tight timeframe. With the completion of the transaction, Overseas Shipholding gained a strong appreciation for our relationship-focused approach, certainty of execution, and deep marine and shipping lending expertise.

our people

We see the big picture.

“We understand cycles and trends as well as global markets, which allows us to make wise decisions, with an astronaut’s-eye perspective.”

steve crain

VICE PRESIDENT
COMMERCIAL ASSET FINANCE

Portfolio Companies

We have an investment portfolio of $1.4 billion in commercial asset finance as of 9.30.19.

“Prudential Private Capital delivered on all aspects of this transaction. They demonstrated a keen understanding of our business and used that knowledge to develop the loan structure with us, build the lender group, and provide certainty of execution.”

Dick Trueblood, Chief Financial Officer, Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc.

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