Vaupen Financial Advisors strives to optimize the capital structure of each client to meet their specific needs and objectives.
VFA works with private middle-market businesses to successfully originate, structure and document nearly every form of debt and equity capital necessary to advance strategic and financial objectives with funding from institutional sources. Through a competitive process and sensitivity to our clients’ strategic needs and culture, VFA seeks to find the appropriate financial partner and achieve the best possible balance of valuation, terms and conditions for our clients needs and circumstances.

VFA counts on its long-standing relationships with an extensive number of debt and equity capital investment groups to create the enhanced access to required financing and capital structure for our clients. These relationships, and our credibility within the financial community give us the capability to offer each client a broad range of uniquely suited, creative capital solutions and structure to meet their short and long term financing needs.

Vaupen Financial Advisors has extensive experience assisting clients throughout the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean with each of the following types of capital:

Senior Debt
VFA analyzes, structures and arranges the appropriate senior debt needed for companies to achieve their operational plans including, lines of credit, term loans and uniquely structured debt placements. The debt is primarily secured by assets including, accounts receivable, inventory, real estate, capital equipment, intangible assets and in some cases, allocated revenue/cash flow sharing opportunities.

Subordinated Debt and Mezzanine Financing
VFA structures and obtains subordinated debt financing to provide growth capital and in meeting medium term liquidity and capitalization requirements for our clients. Subordinated debt is junior to a client’s senior debt and can be structured without incurring the higher dilution of equity.

Equity Capital
VFA secures permanent equity capital in order to help companies grow or recapitalize their balance sheets, and provide the necessary funding to support the execution of management's business and growth plans.

Buyouts and Recapitalization
VFA assists our clients in sourcing valuable strategic capital partners to support management buyout transactions and recapitalization transactions. We have experience with helping clients meet their needs for growth capital, acquisition financing, buyouts and inter-generational planning, and customize structuring for these transactions to suit the clients needs and transactional objectives.

Project Finance
VFA provides turnkey financial solutions for infrastructure and other large capital projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. VFA will assist in the sourcing, structuring, partnering and financing of projects involving public and private infrastructure, utilities, alternative energy, lodging and transportation. VFA and its world-class partners bring a diverse and broad experience level to successfully complete a range of complex projects.

Defining specific M & A objectives and parameters of the assignment, developing a deep understanding of targeted goals as well as those unique issues impacting the client’s company and its stakeholders.

Working closely with our clients, from initial planning to closing, tailoring our efforts to minimize disruption to the company's day-to-day business and operations.

Evaluating market conditions, expected valuations, and the issues and process involved in the execution of any transaction.

Performing our own due diligence to assist us in understanding how best to present the company’s strengths and weaknesses and tailor an appropriate process and marketing materials which will take these factors into account to optimize the story for the company’s best advantage.

Evaluating and structuring how best to communicate the opportunity to the most appropriate financial and strategic buyers possible.

Providing expert advisory services to support acquisition and divestiture plans, through careful valuation analyses and focused negotiations.

Structuring financings to support acquisitions, including obtaining financing, and concurrent recapitalization of balance sheets.

Designing and managing a well orchestrated due diligence process, including managing legal and financial aspects, as well as handling comprehensive risk assessments impacting the transaction.

Contacting potential buyers, managing the distribution of marketing materials and related due diligence of selected interested buyers, advising on selecting the winning bidder, and the execution of an acceptable letter of intent.

Working closely with our clients in managing attorneys, accountants and other professionals involved in the final stages of a transaction, to maintain an efficient process leading to completing the transaction as desired.

Vaupen Financial Advisors has extensive experience working with troubled liquidity-challenged companies, and those operating under loan default conditions, to solve pressing financial concerns. We will represent companies with solid business fundamentals, but who are having trouble finding the right mix of financing or are overleveraged.

Debt restructuring services:
VFA’s goal is to provide value-added corporate finance services to companies in need of capital restructuring. We will work with our clients in developing solutions to financial issues, including managing the workout process with their current lenders, and implement our solutions across the capital structure.

Approach - Our approach to the restructuring process includes:

Understanding a client's core businesses and a determination of going-concern and liquidation values.
Preparation of a detailed analysis to project realizable cash flows and long-term growth in value.
An analysis of the issues unique to each company and the objectives of its creditors and investors.
Development of a financing structure that will maximize value, and satisfy resolution of priority creditor concerns.

Experience - We provide what we believe to be an optimal combination of skill sets (commercial finance & banking, investment banking, management and corporate and securities law), and institutional relationships to execute the requirements of these engagements.

Lender workout arrangements
VFA will help lead clients in the negotiation and management of Workout arrangements with their incumbent Lenders. We will assist borrowers in the guidance of, and overseeing of a company's financial and operational turnaround leading to problem resolutions. We will facilitate and manage workout situations involving distressed and financially troubled companies on behalf of borrowers, lenders and creditors.

Our workout services utilize our experience and methodologies developed through managing seasoned high-growth and start-up companies through times of financial volatility by:

Performing a quick diagnosis of managerial, liquidity and profitability performance challenges.
Developing a tactical action plan for management to maintain the viability of the enterprise.
Implementing and executing immediate and long-term financial solutions to stabilize the company and overcome the root causes of the situation that can lead to new capital.

There are a variety of reasons why companies file for bankruptcy protection:
Excessive debt
Lack of liquidity
Fraud
Mismanagement

A company also may use bankruptcy as a strategy to fend off litigation exposure or to eliminate burdensome contractual obligations.
We help companies manage bankruptcy and insolvency related matters in order to emerge financially sound.

Bankruptcy advisory services
Effectively addressing the concerns of bankruptcy or insolvency requires experienced professionals who understand the issues associated with this complex situation.

VFA will assist you by offering years of practical knowledge and experience derived from working with debtor clients, creditors and the banking, investment and legal communities.

VFA works with you to develop the appropriate financial and operating solutions for your distressed situation under the urgency that these situations require.

Our services include :
Financial advisory services representing debtors and creditors on Chapter 11 cases.
Bankruptcy related financing including Debtor-in-possession financing (DIP Financing) by providing fresh debt financing in accordance with bankruptcy regulations.
Exit financing and recapitalization assistance by securing new financing to allow debtors to exit bankruptcyVaupen Financial Advisors has extensive experience working with troubled liquidity-challenged companies, and those operating under loan default conditions, to solve pressing financial concerns. We will represent companies with solid business fundamentals, but who are having trouble finding the right mix of financing or are overleveraged.

Debt restructuring services :
VFA’s goal is to provide value-added corporate finance services to companies in need of capital restructuring. We will work with our clients in developing solutions to financial issues, including managing the workout process with their current lenders, and implement our solutions across the capital structure.

Approach - Our approach to the restructuring process includes
Understanding a client's core businesses and a determination of going-concern and liquidation values.
Preparation of a detailed analysis to project realizable cash flows and long-term growth in value.
An analysis of the issues unique to each company and the objectives of its creditors and investors.
Development of a financing structure that will maximize value, and satisfy resolution of priority creditor concerns.

Experience - We provide what we believe to be an optimal combination of skill sets (commercial finance & banking, investment banking, management and corporate and securities law), and institutional relationships to execute the requirements of these engagements.

Lender workout arrangements
VFA will help lead clients in the negotiation and management of Workout arrangements with their incumbent Lenders. We will assist borrowers in the guidance of, and overseeing of a company's financial and operational turnaround leading to problem resolutions.
We will facilitate and manage workout situations involving distressed and financially troubled companies on behalf of borrowers, lenders and creditors.

Our workout services utilize our experience and methodologies developed through managing seasoned high-growth and start-up companies through times of financial volatility by:
Performing a quick diagnosis of managerial, liquidity and profitability performance challenges.
Developing a tactical action plan for management to maintain the viability of the enterprise.
Implementing and executing immediate and long-term financial solutions to stabilize the company and overcome the root causes of the situation that can lead to new capital and fund its reorganization plans.
Assisting in estate settlement, executing a plan of reorganization or shedding non-core assets.