About us

Founder-led advice. Lender-side experience of leveraged debt.

LeveragedBuyoutFinance.co.uk is run by a former banker who sat on the credit side of corporate and property lending for 25 years, not a broker who started life on commission. The difference shows in how an acquisition is structured, which funders see it and what the debt ends up costing.

Who runs this site

Matt Lenzie, founder of Lenzie Consulting Ltd and operator of the Construction Capital portfolio. Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group alumnus. 25 years in banking, with significant corporate and property transactional experience including leveraged buyouts and acquisitions. £400m+ of debt and equity raised for clients to date. Read Matt's full profile →

What we do

We are a specialist, founder-led source of leveraged buyout and acquisition finance. We help UK companies, management teams and sponsors fund the purchase of a business: strategic and bolt-on acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, private equity backed deals, sponsor-less buyouts, refinancings and recapitalisations. Everything we arrange is unregulated business finance to a limited company or LLP.

We build the funding structure first, senior debt, unitranche, mezzanine, cash flow lending, asset based facilities and equity, then place each layer with the funder that prices it best across 40+ banks, debt funds and asset based lenders. We package the case the way a credit committee expects to see it, manage the funder through due diligence and legals, and stay involved until the money draws on completion.

Construction Capital portfolio

Construction Capital is the parent brand. LeveragedBuyoutFinance.co.uk operates as a trading name of Lenzie Consulting Ltd. Lenzie Consulting Ltd is not authorised or regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. We arrange unregulated business finance for UK limited companies and limited liability partnerships only, including acquisition debt, leveraged buyout finance, unitranche and mezzanine facilities and asset based lending. We do not arrange consumer credit, regulated mortgage contracts, or lending to sole traders and small partnerships that falls within the Consumer Credit Act; where a case would need FCA permission we refer it to an FCA-authorised firm. We are not a lender and we do not give tax, legal or investment advice.

Sister sites include MBOFinance.co.uk for management buyout finance, ConstructionCapital.co.uk, CommercialMortgagesBroker.co.uk, and a network of specialist property-finance properties.

How we are different

Lender-side experience at the top. Matt spent 25 years inside Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group on the credit side of corporate and property finance, including the senior and mezzanine debt behind buyouts and acquisitions. Every case we package benefits from knowing how the paper is read at the other end.
Structure before lender. Most failed acquisitions fail on structure, not on the target. We size the debt to the cash flow, settle the layers and the equity, and only then approach funders.
Whole-of-market, not a favourite bank. High-street banks, challenger banks, unitranche and mezzanine funds, cash flow lenders, asset based lenders and private equity houses underwrite leveraged deals very differently. We put the case in front of the ones that fit.
Confidential by default. Nothing goes to a funder until you say so, and nothing goes to the vendor at all unless you ask us to help with that conversation.
Compliance-first. Every page states our regulatory status plainly, every figure is labelled indicative and dated, and we never quote a rate we cannot evidence.

The team

Headquartered in London and working UK-wide. The desk is supported by a case-management team and an introducer network of corporate finance advisers, accountants and solicitors who act for acquirers, management teams and vendors.

Enquiry

Discuss your acquisition

Same-business-day callback. Fee-free initial consultation. Whole-of-market access to 40+ banks, debt funds and asset based lenders.

Whole-of-market: banks, unitranche and mezzanine funds, cash flow lenders, asset based lenders and private equity.
A funding structure and indicative terms before you commit to anything.
Initial consultation always fee-free. Confidential.

Funder panel and fees

We work with 40+ banks, debt funds and asset based lenders, including high-street and challenger banks, unitranche and mezzanine funds, specialist cash flow lenders, asset based lenders and private equity investors. Initial consultation is fee-free. We charge an arrangement fee of 1% of the debt raised, payable only on successful drawdown. Where a lender pays us an introducer or procuration fee, that is credited first and you pay only the difference up to 1%. No fee at all if the transaction does not complete. Exact figures are confirmed in writing before you commit.

Regulatory status

Lenzie Consulting Ltd is not authorised or regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. We arrange unregulated business finance for UK limited companies and limited liability partnerships only, including acquisition debt, leveraged buyout finance, unitranche and mezzanine facilities and asset based lending. We do not arrange consumer credit, regulated mortgage contracts, or lending to sole traders and small partnerships that falls within the Consumer Credit Act; where a case would need FCA permission we refer it to an FCA-authorised firm. We are not a lender and we do not give tax, legal or investment advice.