For independent sponsors
You have a target. Now you need the people who can test the numbers, support the financing process and prepare the business for what comes next.
Share the sector, size, financing plan, available financial records and closing timetable with each provider. Ask who will lead the work and how findings reach your investors, lender and counsel. Confirm report scope and reliance requirements with your capital partners.
Find acquisition targets and relevant intermediaries. Choose between a sourcing platform, data provider and adviser representing your search.
Explore deal sourcing →Compare direct debt and equity providers. Confirm investment size, structure and sponsor requirements with each provider.
Explore acquisition capital →Run a capital-raising process and compare funding partners. Financing advisers arrange capital rather than supplying it from their own fund.
Explore financing advisers →Review tax exposures and acquisition structure alongside financial diligence and counsel.
Explore transaction tax →Test earnings, cash conversion, working capital and tax exposure. Agree on the report scope with your lender and equity partners.
Explore financial and tax diligence →Coordinate deal structure, purchase agreement, financing documents and the findings that need contractual protection.
Explore transaction counsel →Validate customer demand, concentration and market assumptions. Confirm the specialist scope against the investment thesis.
Review the target’s systems, software and information security. These workstreams are not covered by a financial QoE alone.
Explore technology and cyber diligence →Assess capacity, facilities, supply chain and the operating assumptions behind the deal.
Explore operational diligence →Review site conditions, compliance and environmental liabilities where the target’s operations require it.
Explore environmental diligence →Test the management team’s ability to deliver the investment thesis and identify leadership gaps before close.
Explore leadership diligence →Review coverage, claims, contractual obligations and the insurance program needed at closing and through the hold period.
Explore insurance diligence and the transition →The directory currently covers financial diligence, M&A advisers, investment banks and transaction attorneys. Specialist commercial, operational, technology and environmental coverage is being researched.
18 firms identify independent sponsors in a published engagement, practice description or service audience. The profile explains the evidence. Inclusion does not mean firm confirmation, endorsement or a partnership with Riza.
Financial diligence for an independent sponsor’s platform acquisition, with post-close accounting support.
Deal work: Buy-side financial diligence and accounting transitionIndustry focus: Consumer products and servicesIndependent sponsor focus: Published deal exampleTransaction diligence, valuation and tax support for independent sponsors, including post-close advisory.
Deal work: Buy-side and sell-side transaction diligenceIndustry focus: Confirm your industry with the firmIndependent sponsor focus: Published practice experienceQoE and financial diligence for independent sponsors, private equity, family offices and corporate buyers.
Deal work: Buy-side and sell-side financial diligenceIndustry focus: Confirm your industry with the firmIndependent sponsor focus: Listed service audienceMiddle-market M&A and capital advisory, with a private capital practice experienced in independent sponsor transactions.
Deal work: Buy-side acquisition sourcing, sell-side M&A and private capital raisingIndustry focus: Business services · Construction and building products · Consumer products and services · Food and agriculture · Healthcare · Industrials and manufacturing · Software and technology · Transportation and logistics · Energy and environmental services · Financial servicesIndependent sponsor focus: Published practice experienceQoE, deal structuring and portfolio-company accounting for independent sponsors.
Deal work: Buy-side and sell-side diligence; post-close accountingIndustry focus: Business services · Industrials and manufacturing · HealthcareIndependent sponsor focus: Published practice experienceHealthcare QoE and transaction support for sponsors, private equity, family offices and corporate buyers and sellers.
Deal work: Buy-side and sell-side healthcare diligenceIndustry focus: HealthcareIndependent sponsor focus: Published practice experienceQoE for independent sponsors, search funds and lower middle market private equity buyers and sellers.
Deal work: Buy-side and sell-side financial diligenceIndustry focus: Confirm your industry with the firmIndependent sponsor focus: Listed service audienceFinancial diligence to understand the earnings you are buying, with accounting and finance support that can continue after closing.
Deal work: Quality of earnings & post-close finance supportIndustry focus: Software and technology · Business services · HealthcareIndependent sponsor focus: Published practice experienceInvestment bank focused on raising acquisition capital and negotiating financing structures for independent sponsors.
Deal work: Acquisition financing and deal structuring for independent sponsorsIndustry focus: Confirm your industry with the firmIndependent sponsor focus: Published practice experienceQoE, working capital and proof-of-cash analysis for sponsors, search buyers and private equity.
Deal work: Buy-side and sell-side financial diligenceIndustry focus: Confirm your industry with the firmIndependent sponsor focus: Listed service audienceLegal counsel for independent sponsor acquisitions, private equity transactions and investment structures.
Deal work: Independent sponsor & private equity counselIndustry focus: Industrials and manufacturing · Software and technology · Healthcare · Consumer products and services · Business services · Food and agriculture · Energy and environmental servicesIndependent sponsor focus: Published practice experienceMiddle-market investment bank with an explicit independent sponsor practice for transaction execution and acquisition financing.
Deal work: Buy-side and sell-side M&A, capital raising and special situationsIndustry focus: Confirm your industry with the firmIndependent sponsor focus: Listed service audienceMezzanine debt and equity for lower middle market businesses across the United States.
Deal work: Acquisition and buyout capital for sponsored and non-sponsored transactions.Industry focus: Confirm your industry with the firmIndependent sponsor focus: Published practice experienceQoE and accounting diligence for sponsors, private equity, family offices and strategic investors.
Deal work: Acquisition, divestiture and carve-out diligenceIndustry focus: Consumer products and services · Healthcare · Industrials and manufacturing · Transportation and logistics · Software and technologyIndependent sponsor focus: Published practice experienceFinancial diligence for independent sponsors, search buyers and business owners.
Deal work: Buy-side and sell-side financial diligenceIndustry focus: Construction and building productsIndependent sponsor focus: Published practice experienceBuy-side investment banking for independent sponsors and entrepreneurial acquirers pursuing lower middle market companies.
Deal work: Acquisition sourcing, diligence coordination, negotiation and capital sourcing for targets with $1M to $5M EBITDAIndustry focus: Business services · Industrials and manufacturing · Software and technology · Transportation and logisticsIndependent sponsor focus: Published deal exampleJunior debt and equity for lower middle market acquisitions and buyouts.
Deal work: Capital provider; flexible debt and equity, rather than a financing placement adviser.Industry focus: Confirm your industry with the firmIndependent sponsor focus: Published practice experienceLegal counsel for acquisitions, sales and independent sponsor transactions, from deal structure and diligence through negotiation and closing.
Deal work: M&A counsel & independent sponsor transactionsIndustry focus: Financial services · Industrials and manufacturing · Consumer products and services · Healthcare · Software and technologyIndependent sponsor focus: Published practice experienceRiza helps buyers understand the insurance questions before closing and coordinate what comes next.
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