Solutions for Independent Sponsors
Accelerating Independent Sponsor Success
Flexible Capital, Vertically Integrated Support, and Aligned Outcomes
Prospect Capital Management (“Prospect”) understands the unique challenges and opportunities independent sponsors face competing in today’s market. Whether you are pursuing a new platform acquisition, an add-on acquisition, or expanding your operations, Prospect is a capital provider with resources, agility, and a collaborative mindset, in addition to significant capital.
Prospect is a leading provider of debt and equity capital to U.S. middle-market and lower middle-market companies. Prospect brings decades of financing experience and a relationship-oriented approach to every situation.
Innovative, Flexible, and Adaptive Approach Across the Capital Structure
We provide customized financing solutions tailored to meet your needs. Prospect has the flexibility to provide one-stop financing solutions including one or more of the following:
- Senior or unitranche term loan debt
- Convertible debt
- Preferred equity
- Minority or majority common equity
Our one-stop financing solutions are designed to simplify transactions, reduce execution risk, expedite closing timelines, and minimize transaction costs. Our broad toolkit allows us to work with you to structure capital that fits your strategy and accelerates deal momentum.
Cycle Tested Tenure
With over $9.6 billion in flexible capital, a track record of over nearly 475 middle-market investments, and a team of over 140 professionals spanning a range of industries, we can move from initial conversation to closing with speed and rigor.
We work with independent sponsors on platform acquisitions, add-on acquisitions, refinancings, and growth financings. Our portfolio of over 70 companies often creates opportunities for significant collaboration between your existing portfolio companies and acquisition targets with our existing portfolio companies.
Alignment Throughout the Investment Lifecycle
Prospect is here to consistently support you throughout your business’s life cycle. Whether it be add-on acquisitions, add-on term loans, amendments, covenant discussions, liquidity events, or other strategic initiatives, you’ll work with a team that gets to know your business, the thesis, its history and help drive its future.
- We engage early in the underwriting process.
- Communicate directly, and invest with a long-term horizon.
Our track record with independent sponsors, first-fund, operationally-focused, and industry-specific sponsors reflects years ofdoing exactly this with your peers and after predecessors.
Our Philosophy
Concentration on the Lower and Core Middle-Market
We are specialists in financing companies with EBITDA from less than $5 million to over $50 million, a segment where thoughtful capital structuring and execution provide meaningful competitive advantages to independent sponsors seeking to compete in a crowded market against funded sponsors, family offices, corporate acquirors, and institutions.
Across a wide range of industries and transaction situations, we tailor capital solutions that help independent sponsors:
- Win competitive processes with the support of a well-known capital provider.
- Achieve market share by enabling organic and acquisition growth objectives.
- Optimize cost of capital and manage risk with thoughtfully designed capital structures.
Select Investments
$64.5 million
Follow-On
Acquisition Financing
Multiple
$24.5 million
Follow-On
Acquisition Financing
Multiple
$57.2 million
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Acquisition Financing
Multiple
$56.5 million
Follow-On
Acquisition Financing
Multiple
$85.1 million
Follow-On
Acquisition Financing
Multiple
$82.9 million
Acquisition Financing
Multiple
$15.2 million
Acquisition Financing
July 2025
$90.8 million
Follow-On
Acquisition Financing
Multiple
$69.0 million
Follow-On
Acquisition Financing
Multiple
$383.7 million
Follow-On
Acquisition Financing
Multiple
$31.2 million
Follow-On
Acquisition Financing
Multiple
$13.3 million
Follow-On
Acquisition Financing
Apr 2025, Nov 2021
Your most important decisions require the right capital provider
Whether you are seeking additional capital, optimizing your portfolio companies’ capital structures, or looking for a reliable capital provider for your next refinancing, we want to be your first call.