Apesar do impacto do CoVID-19 Refinâncias do provedor de serviços gerenciadas e presta homenagem à determinação e brilho de consultores
GANERED Services Provedor || 294 eacs has secured a multi-million refinance deal thanks to brokers Knight Capital Funding, and corporate lender Shawbrook Bank.
Founded in 1994, eacs is an IT expert supplying practical, innovative and cost-effective Managed Services and IT Solutions to mid-market businesses across all sectors.
Knight Capital Funding raised the debt to enable eacs to not only refinance an existing facility, but to upsize the debt on more favourable terms to support the growth of the company. The funding was secured through Shawbrook Bank. The figure has not been disclosed.
Adam Zoldan, Director, Knight Capital Funding, stated: “We were delighted to work with eacs, having worked with Anne and Kevin on their initial fund-raise to acquire eacs. The success of the business in helping customers with legacy equipment transform to a Cloud and managed service solution enabled us to attract competition from a range of institutions to fund the next stage of EACS 'crescimento. No entanto, a força e a profundidade de
“The timing for the fund-raise was not ideal with lock-down commencing part-way through the process. However, the strength and depth of EACS experiência, seus clientes de chip azul que fornecem receita recorrente e algumas perspectivas de crescimento atraentes garantiram que o negócio fosse capaz de concluir em um momento em que muitos acordos similares caíram. ter sido capaz de refinanciar o negócio no que é um dos climas econômicos mais turbulentos que vimos em nossa vida. Não há dúvida de que é uma prova dos negócios que não apenas garantimos com sucesso o refinanciamento, mas também o fizemos com o aumento do escrutínio, previsão financeira e simulações de crise e avaliações de impacto. Entenda que nossos consultores têm nos negócios, mas também porque estamos em um setor que está demonstrando um grau de resiliência. Transforme digitalmente em velocidade ”, acrescentou o Sr. Timms.
Kevin Timms, CEO, eacs, stated: “We are absolutely delighted to have been able to refinance the business in what is one of the most turbulent economic climates we have seen in our lifetime. There is no doubt that it is testament to the business that not only did we successfully secure refinancing, but we did so with increased scrutiny, financial forecasting and crisis simulations and impact assessments.
“There has been much anecdotal evidence that the current COVID-19 crisis has driven digital change, this has certainly been our experience as we went through this process in recent months. But we did so and that is illustrative not only of the grip and understand we and our advisors have on the business, but also because we are in a sector that is demonstrating a degree of resilience. Before the coronavirus outbreak, many businesses had little interest in exploring video conferencing, remote working at scale or attending a virtual event. Allowing every employee to work from home for once a week was also unthinkable. Today, many are now beginning to see the art of the possible and explore new ways of working and thinking and we are helping those businesses digitally transform at speed,” added Mr Timms.
Adam Zoldan concluded: “All credit to eacs management team who were able to deliver at the most challenging of times for a fund-raise and I am sure the IT Services industry as a whole will take heart from this success story. EACS provou ser extremamente robusto durante a pandemia e muitos reconhecerão o impacto causado por EACS e seus pares em manter o Reino Unido aberto para negócios e capaz de se adaptar ao novo normal. Nossa visão é que uma combinação de fortes perspectivas de geração de caixa e crescimento garantirá que o financiamento esteja disponível e as perspectivas de criação de valor permaneça fortes por algum tempo. ”
Daisy Reeves, parceiro bancário da BCLP que liderou a equipe jurídica multidisciplinar para EACS Comentado: “Bclp tem sido encantado em ajudar a originária, em Ist. A empresa que eles foram capazes de garantir financiamento neste momento difícil, quando os mutuários e seus balanços estão sob maior escrutínio financeiro no que diz respeito ao 'dinheiro novo'. “eacs in both its financings, originally with BMS in 2017 and now with Shawbrook. It is testament to the strength of the company that they were able to secure financing at this difficult time when borrowers and their balance sheets are coming under increased financial scrutiny where ‘new money’ is concerned. eacs was able to demonstrate its overall value in the market, resulting in a very successful refinance.”
Christian Heidl, Senior Adviser, BMS Finance, added: “ EACS tem sido um investimento bem-sucedido para o BMS Finance com base em uma parceria de confiança desde o início, três anos atrás. Estamos muito satisfeitos por ter apoiado Kevin e sua equipe na criação de um provedor líder de soluções de TI e serviços gerenciados para o UK Mid-Market. Ao realizareacs has outgrown BMS Finance and we wish the team every success when realising EACS Próxima fase do crescimento. ”
“ Gostaria de agradecer a Christian e à equipe da BMS que apoiou muito os últimos três anos de nosso crescimento com eles e estou ansioso pelo nosso relacionamento com Shawbrook. Tivemos apoio fantástico do Knight Capital Funding e BCLP, que garantiu que fizemos isso de maneira eficaz ”, concluiu o Sr. Timms.
