Unitranche
Streamlined leverage funding for Financial Sponsors investing in UK SMEs.
Why Shawbrook?
Key client characteristics
About our Unitranche facilities
A single lender solution for debt facilities up to £20m, providing committed capital to cater for event-driven needs. Sector-agnostic and a pure cashflow lend, Unitranche is designed with speed and simplicity in mind to support Sponsor-backed UK SMEs.
Working with businesses you support
Explore our funding solutions for Private Equity investors supporting UK mid-market SMEs.
Working capital
Maintaining sufficient financial headroom is critical in ensuring that your business is resilient and capable of dealing with whatever the future might hold. We provide a range of solutions to help you manage your working capital, using either your assets or cashflow as security.
Event financing
Acquisitions, management buy-outs, employee ownership transitions, re-structuring, investing for growth. These are pivotal events for any business, and almost always dependent on access to funding.
Assets & equipment
Funding to support investments in assets and equipment. Whether it’s leasing or purchasing capital equipment or machinery, or funding significant investment in soft assets or intangible costs associated to CAPEX.
Outstanding in your field
We work with most sectors across the UK. Here's a spotlight on some of the sectors we work with.
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News & case studies
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Adviser or Business Introducer?
We work with a range of corporate debt advisers, accountants, lawyers, and other knowledge based introducers to find solutions for their clients.
If your business is introducing clients to the right partners and we haven't spoken before, we understand that a conversation is just the start.
Explore our Private Equity and Sponsor products
Venture Debt
A product designed specifically to help fast growth companies, our Venture Debt solution is a finance facility designed to help VC-backed businesses continue to grow rapidly between funding rounds.
Recurring Revenue Finance
Our Recurring Revenue facility is suited to high growth sponsor-backed UK businesses with quality revenue streams seeking to develop both product and sales capability.
Our business
About Shawbrook
Shawbrook provides finance to a wide range of customers who value the premium experience, flexibility and certainly we deliver. We are a purpose-led organisation, with a focus on delivering long-term sustainable value for all our stakeholders.
Sustainability
Our sustainability strategy is designed to create value for our customers, colleagues, communities, suppliers and shareholders, while having a positive impact on society and the wider environment.
Saracens sponsorship
As official banking partner of Saracens Rugby Club, we are proud to champion elite women’s sport by supporting the growth of both women’s rugby and netball as lead sponsor of the Mavericks.