Baird Global Investment Banking’s Private Capital Markets Group is a team of seasoned product experts, who partner with Baird’s industry bankers and deliver innovative capital solutions for clients. We provide independent and holistic advice. We evaluate capital structures and alternatives and deliver bespoke security structures for sponsor-backed and founder/family-owned businesses and public companies.

Baird’s team has a track record of successful outcomes for clients across a multitude of transaction objectives, including:

  • Growth
  • Acquisition financing
  • Balance sheet recapitalization (debt and/or equity)
  • Liquidity, secondary monetization transactions
  • Management or leveraged buyout financing
  • Independent sponsor, platform company or joint venture financing
  • Project financing

We offer a wide array of products, including loans, traditional private placements, private convertible, structured equity and equity-linked, management-led secondaries and PIPEs.

At the forefront of capital market trends, we deliver a broad range of highly customized solutions across the spectrum of debt, equity and hybrid securities, including:

  • Asset Based Facilities
  • First Lien Term Loans / Unitranche
  • High Yield
  • Second Lien / Mezzanine
  • HoldCo Notes (Private + Public)
  • Equity-linked (Convertible Debt or Debt + Warrants)
  • Preferred Stock (with or without Warrants)
  • Convertible Preferred Stock
  • Common Stock

Baird provides clients with direct access to a vast universe of investors through our strong relationships with bank and non-bank lenders, venture capital, hedge, private equity and credit funds, family offices, pensions, sovereigns and other alternative investors and strategic investors.

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