Financial Sponsors & Leveraged Finance

Delivering speed, certainty, and flexibility.

Our ability to commit up to $750 million, combined with our streamlined approval process, means a faster and clearer path to getting your deal done.

Sourced Commitments**
$ 0 B+
Deals Lead Arranger*
> 0 %
Sponsor Relationships*
0 +
Dedicated Team Members**
0 +

We match debt capital with opportunity—tailoring our cash flow loans to each situation. As a leading direct lender, we customize loans to quickly address your financing needs for leveraged buyouts, add-on acquisitions, refinancings, and recapitalizations.

With MidCap Financial, you can choose to deal with a single provider for middle market leveraged lending—tapping into our deep liquidity, extensive resources, and relevant experience. We specialize in first lien, unitranche, and annual recurring revenue (ARR) loans tailored to private equity sponsor-backed companies, providing debt capital of up to $750 million to companies with EBITDA typically of $10 million to $125 million. We have expertise in a diverse range of industries, with borrowers across the U.S., Canada, and Europe.

Through our alliance with Apollo Global Management, Inc., we can also provide mezzanine debt, anchor tickets for broadly syndicated loan transactions, jumbo unitranche loans over $750 million, GP financing solutions, credit secondaries, and preferred equity.

Serving a diverse range of industries

Automotive
Automotive
Business Services
Business Services
Technology
Technology
Chemicals & Plastics
Chemicals & Plastics
Consumer
Consumer
Distribution
Distribution
Environmental Services
Environmental Services
Financial Services & Insurance
Financial Services & Insurance
Pharmaceuticals
Pharmaceuticals
Healthcare Services
Healthcare Services
Industrial & Manufacturing
Industrial & Manufacturing
Transportation & Logistics
Transportation & Logistics
Media & Telecom
Media & Telecom

*Lead arranger role includes transactions where the Financial Sponsors & Leveraged Finance team’s originated loan was as lead arranger, joint lead arranger, and/or administrative agent. Based on origination deal count/volume between September 16, 2008 – September 30, 2024.

**This figure pertains solely to the Financial Sponsors & Leveraged Finance group as of September 30, 2024.

Delivering debt capital, at scale, with speed and certainty of close

Financial Sponsors & Leveraged Finance
Senior Credit Facility
Financial Sponsors & Leveraged Finance
Court Square Capital Partners
Transaction role
Admin Agent, Joint Bookrunner, Joint Lead Arranger
Financial Sponsors & Leveraged Finance
$43,000,000
Senior Credit Facility
Financial Sponsors & Leveraged Finance
Trivest Partners and Shoreline Equity Partners
Transaction role
Admin Agent, Joint Bookrunner, Joint Lead Arranger
Financial Sponsors & Leveraged Finance
$184,000,000
Senior Credit Facility
Financial Sponsors & Leveraged Finance
Wildcat Capital Management
Transaction role
Admin Agent, Sole Bookrunner, Sole Lead Arranger
“MidCap Financial’s ability to provide flexible capital solutions across business sizes and industries makes the firm a strong partner for Genstar.”
Genstar Capital
“Olympus Partners views MidCap Financial as a long-term partner. We have repeatedly chosen MidCap Financial to lead our deals given their relationship orientated focus, large commitment size, certainty of execution and continual support of our companies over the entirety of the loan.”
Olympus Partners
“We have had a long-standing relationship with MidCap Financial due to their flexibility, creativity, and certainty of execution.”
Flexpoint Ford
“Altamont Capital Partners has worked with MidCap Financial on a variety of transactions over 10+ years of history together. We’ve found them to be flexible, commercial, and a great solution provider across the capital structure – from ABLs to Term Loans to structured financing products. They are always a first call for us in an increasingly crowded middle market finance landscape; we consider them a true long-term partner.”
Altamont Capital Partners
“MidCap Financial is a highly valued financing partner for Gryphon Investors. Their relationship-orientation and adaptive and attentive underwriting process have established MidCap Financial among the top echelon of lenders in the middle market.”
Gryphon Investors
“MidCap Financial is an exceptional partner for Tailwind Capital. They are relationship-focused and are very responsive in providing flexible and creative financing structures with sizable commitments and transaction certainty.”
Tailwind Capital
“MidCap Financial is an important partner to LLCP. We value their knowledge, understanding of each transaction’s goals and objectives and ability to execute efficiently and effectively. We look forward to continuing our long term mutually successful relationship...”
Levine Leichtman Capital Partners
“MidCap Financial really exemplifies what we look for in a lender to partner with in our investments. They have a large, stable capital base which they can deploy quickly in multiple structures and importantly are as focused on the importance of relationships as we are.”
Anne Hayes
Senior Partner, Capital Markets
The Riverside Company

Meet your team

Clare Bailhé
Vice Chair
Josh Rothenberg
Deputy Chief Investment Officer
Eliza Peterson
Managing Director
Deputy General Counsel
Rodney Craig
Managing Director
Team Leader
Jonathan ("JJ") Jacobs
Managing Director
Team Leader
Anisha Malhotra
Managing Director
Team Leader
Melissa Morrison
Managing Director
Team Leader
Puja Parekh
Managing Director
Team Leader
Jeff Shekell
Managing Director
Team Leader
Grace Wang
Managing Director
Team Leader
Evan Plisner
Managing Director
Sponsor Coverage and Head of APAC
TJ Ceravolo
Managing Director
Sponsor Coverage and Underwriting
Michael Sandler
Managing Director
Sponsor Coverage and Underwriting
Tyler Wilson
Managing Director
Sponsor Coverage and Underwriting
Kelly Simmers
Managing Director
Portfolio Head
Rick Gibbs
Managing Director
Portfolio Management
Karl Liebenauer
Managing Director
Portfolio Management
John O'Dea
Managing Director
Portfolio Management
Irene Stucke
Managing Director
Portfolio Management
Jason Weinstein
Managing Director
Portfolio Management
Lucy Rice Culp
Director
Sponsor Coverage and Underwriting
Meredith Dickinson
Director
Sponsor Coverage and Underwriting
Luba Morgan
Director
Sponsor Coverage and Underwriting
Alex Ringold
Director
Sponsor Coverage and Underwriting
Matt Zikaras
Director
Sponsor Coverage and Underwriting
Daniel Flournoy
Director
Associate General Counsel
Derek Price
Director
Underwriting
Caroline Conole
Director
Portfolio Management
Lisa Crady
Director
Portfolio Management
Christine Haddad
Director
Portfolio Management
Dave Lilja
Director
Portfolio Management
John O'Brien
Director
Portfolio Management
Austin Parise
Director
Portfolio Management
Rick Singleton
Director
Portfolio Management
Sarah Speirs
Director
Portfolio Management
Jennifer Zurek
Director
Portfolio Management
Kit Tamkin
Director
Entertainment Finance
Jon Stephenson
Director
Strategic Accounts
Katie Davis
Vice President
Sponsor Coverage and Underwriting
Lauren Hardison
Vice President
Sponsor Coverage and Underwriting
Ted Wieland
Vice President
Sponsor Coverage and Underwriting
Spencer Hui
Vice President
Underwriting
Brent Noh
Vice President
Underwriting
Jun Shao
Vice President
Underwriting
David DiPippo
Vice President
Portfolio Management
P.J. O'Keeffe
Vice President
Portfolio Management
Dave Pederson
Vice President
Portfolio Management
Ben Schaefer
Vice President
Portfolio Management
Taylor Wilson
Vice President
Portfolio Management
Charles duPont
Vice President
Portfolio Management
Dave Crescenzi
Co-President of Leveraged Lending
Michael Min
Co-President of Leveraged Lending
Bryan Rupprecht
President of Healthcare Leveraged Lending

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