Unlock Opportunity in Your Business
Whether your business is growing, acquiring, evolving, or even facing challenges, there is always one critical piece of the puzzle:
Capital.
In the current environment however, access to capital is tighter than it used to be, bankers often don’t understand their clients’ businesses.
Business owners know that with the right financiers by their side, managing their business would be far less stressful and they could even improve the value of their business by taking it to the next level.
A Specialist Approach Delivers Results
The biggest inhibitor that we see in businesses looking to borrow or raise $3 – 100m, is that they don’t know how best to source, negotiate and structure their debt & equity capital needs, or how to pull the right strings with bankers or investors. The reason why this happens is that, as a business owner or CEO/CFO, they may be leaders in their field; but they’re not bankers or financiers.
Leveraging our significant experience and deep relationships in Capital Markets, we structure and source debt, equity and hybrids for our clients, typically businesses turning over $5m to $200m who are working to take their business to the next level.
Working through a defined and detailed process, we achieve results for our clients that fit with their strategic goals and imperatives, which in turn allows them to achieve the results that they are working hard for.
And we’re not just finance brokers. We provide our clients with strategic advice and we access capital from sources that include Banks, Fund Managers, Bond Writers and Ultra-High-Net Worth Individuals.
“In my experience with finance brokers, they try and sell you a product. But instead, STAC put themselves in our position; the fact that we could stay with our original bank saved us from a painful experience. Now I think the world is our oyster. ”
Accessing Capital as:
Working Capital (overdraft, debtor finance & factoring)
Asset Finance (lease/HP/chattel mortgage, operating leases)
International Trade (Documentary & Standby Letters of Credit, Trade Finance, multi-currency facilities)
Interest Rate Hedging
Foreign Exchange (hedging strategies and forward contracts)
Bank Guarantees
Equity & Hybrid Capital
We Help our Clients with:
Competitive Tenders to reduce rates & fees, release securities or loosen restrictive covenants
Acquiring other Businesses
Funding Rapid Growth
Facilitating Succession (shareholder exits & entries)
Leveraged & Management Buy-Outs
Corporate & Balance Sheet Restructures
Distressed Turn-Arounds
“In a time of rapid growth, Mark was a critical part of our team, managing our capital requirements. He took the time to understand our business, provide us with guidance and was responsive to our needs.”
A Strategic Partnership with STAC Capital
While the structuring and arrangement of finance is very much core to our business, our approach is different to that of typical finance brokers.
Our Directors are actively involved with the owners, key management and external advisors of each of our clients.
We are fiercely independent and loyal to our clients, with a pricing model that ensures we are wholly aligned with our clients’ interests, free of conflict with any particular lenders or investors.
We understand the true meaning of strategy and therefore take the time to clearly understand all the factors that make up our clients' strategy, and work with them to continue to build it.
We are transparent in everything we do.
We are not single deal focused. We value long-term mutually-beneficial relationships with our clients.
Your full financial situation will need to be reviewed prior to acceptance of any offer or product.
“Mark is a responsive and commercially minded financier, with a sound understanding of business in Australia, along with customer service that, in my experience, is second to none.”
Deal Experience
Importer &
Wholesaler
Refinance & restructure of funding lines including Working Capital, FX hedging, Letters of Credit & Trade Finance, Term Debt for commercial property portfolio.
Business Turnover $60m
Funding package $20m
Long-Haul
Freight
Revolving asset finance line, enabling acquisitions of new trucks and trailers within 24 hours without credit approval.
Business Turnover $13m
Funding package $9m
Frozen Foods Wholesaler
Working Capital funding line secured by business cash flow, releasing commercial and residential properties from securities mix.
Business Turnover $15m
Funding Package $4m
Industrial Printer
"Import Lease", comprising Documentary Letter of Credit, short-term Trade Finance and Asset Finance for import of €3m industrial printer.
Also Term Property Debt to assist with acquisition of $10m industrial property.
National Legal Firm
Restructure balance sheets of multiple corporate entities, working capital to assist with revenue and cost-base growth, term debt to fund succession
Business Turnover $45m
Funding package $10m
Overseas Civil Contract
Australian asset-backed Standby Letter of Credit to support project retentions for large civil works contract overseas, together with Foreign Exchange Contracts to protect AUD profit margins.
Facility limit A$6m
Sports Club (gaming & liquor)
Major expansion and refurbishment of club facilities, purchase of gaming machines and licences. Debt servicing reliant on forecast financial models.
Funding package $8m
NextGen Cable Networks
Working Capital and Bonding facilities, supporting ~100% Compound Annual Growth Rate in Turnover, doubling the size of facility limits offered by outgoing bank
Business Turnover $80m
Financial
Services
Refinance commercial debt and private banking debt, additional $3m to assist completion of M&A of two competitors.
Business Turnover $9m
Funding package $10m
Import Lease
Multiple facilities for the import and financing of yellow-goods machines. Forward Exchange Contracts to lock in AUD value of purchase price, Trade Finance during import, then long-term Lease/Hire Purchase finance.
Facility limit $3m
Importer & Wholesaler
Trade, Debtor and Term Debt facilities to assist with rapid multi-year growth and on-going operational requirements
Funding Package $8m