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Explore our business case studies, showcasing how we have turned challenges into success through our tailored advisory approach.

Fabricant d'emballages en verre

10 years of partnership: a financing program that grows with the client

Programme details

  • Annual revenue: €3bn
  • Facility: €650m

Challenges

Secure the group’s financing at the best possible cost and implement a sustainable, transferable solution (in the event of a private equity exit)

Country

France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom

Our realisations

  • Conducted multiple competitive tenders, enabling reduced overall margins, optimized advance rates, and increased facility capacity
  • Structured a syndicated, scalable financing facility designed to support both organic and external growth, with a light change-of-control clause
Industry and manufacturing
Credit insurance
Factoring
Services IT spécialisés en programmatique

3 policies for the price of one, under improved terms

Programme details

  • Annual revenue: $520m

Challenges

Secure the group’s cash flow by renegotiating the existing credit insurance policy

Country

Canada, United Kingdom, United States

Our realisations

  • Negotiations: inclusion of Canada and the United Kingdom into the US policy at a lower overall cost / Improved premium rate / Optimised indemnification percentage / Extended claims reporting deadlines / Reduced investigation and monitoring fees
  • Innovation: new types of contracts tailored to the complex payment flows of media buying
Technology and IT
Credit insurance
Fabricant de dispositifs médicaux pour la radiologie

Implementation of a domestic and export factoring program in the healthcare sector

Programme details

  • Assigned turnover: €65m
  • Facility: €5m

Challenges

Identify a financing solution for a company recently acquired by a private equity fund

Country

France

Our realisations

  • Structuring of an undisclosed balance assignment financing agreement with recourse
Healthcare and pharmaceuticals
Factoring
Transformation digitale

Transformation of a spot financing arrangement into a recurring non-recourse facility

Programme details

  • Assigned turnover: €70m
  • Facility: uncapped

Challenges

Ensure compliance with senior debt documentation requirements to preserve the contractual financing framework, while improving financial and leverage ratios to strengthen the balance sheet and enhance financing capacity

Country

France

Our realisations

  • Transition from spot financing to a recurring credit facility
  • Implementation of a non-recourse factoring program aligned with senior debt covenants
  • Deployment of ARI Trade to optimize factoring operations
Technology and IT
Digital solution
Factoring
Charpentes et toitures

A factoring program for a French SME

Programme details

  • Assigned turnover: €4m
  • Facility: €800k

Challenges

Renegotiate an existing agreement that does not cover the full turnover, thereby limiting financing security and optimization

Country

France

Our realisations

  • Implementation of a second factoring agreement to finance the full turnover
  • Securing attractive pricing conditions
Real estate and construction
Factoring
Solutions et prestations pour les aéroports

A standalone factoring program in the United States

Programme details

  • Assigned turnover: $75m
  • Facility: $12m

Country

United States

Our realisations

  • Implementation of an undisclosed, derecognised financing facility in the United States, compliant with IFRS standards
Logistics & transport
Factoring
Polymères haute performance

Extension of a factoring program to include a newly acquired US entity

Programme details

  • Assigned turnover: $120m
  • Facility: $15m

Challenges

Integrate the US acquisition into the group’s existing factoring program to harmonise financing and optimise receivables management

Country

United States

Our realisations

  • Integration of the US subsidiary into the existing factoring program
  • Deployment of ARI Trade to streamline and simplify financing program management
Industry and manufacturing
Digital solution
Factoring
Solutions audiovisuelles

A factoring program for a credit insurance client, offering more favorable terms

Programme details

  • Annual revenue: €200m
  • Facility: €38m

Challenges

Implementation of a credit insurance policy upstream to strengthen contractual terms, improve conditions, and secure the guarantee level in order to support the factoring financing

Country

France, Germany, United Kingdom

Our realisations

  • Transformation of the existing agreement into a fully managed structure (with collections and payment reconciliation taken over) and non-recourse, while retaining the option of recourse financing (beyond the insured/guaranteed portion) up to a maximum of 10% of outstanding receivables
  • Securing improved pricing conditions and enhanced financing terms
Technology and IT
Factoring
Services d’énergie et de conformité

A UK-based group with nearly 10 subsidiaries

Programme details

  • Annual revenue: £610m
  • Facility: £80m

Challenges

Support the post-LBO growth trajectory by leveraging factoring to finance both organic growth and bolt-on acquisitions

Country

United Kingdom

Our realisations

  • Structuring of an undisclosed, derecognised factoring program combined with a delegated credit insurance policy
  • Securing a recourse facility to finance guarantee excesses up to £4.5m (included within the £80m overall facility limit)
  • Deployment of our ARI Trade platform to manage both factoring and credit insurance programs through a single unified interface
Real estate and construction
Credit insurance
Digital solution
Factoring
Fabricant de composants préfabriqués pour la construction

Optimization of factoring and credit insurance programs

Programme details

  • Assigned turnover: €150m
  • Facility: €30m

Challenges

Optimize an existing structure built around two factoring programs by enhancing the scope of Program 1 and replacing the factor on Program 2

Country

France

Our realisations

  • Factoring: implementation of a new program with more favorable terms for the second scope, and improvement of the financing rate through reduced reserves on Scope 1
  • Credit insurance: enhanced coverage levels
Industry and manufacturing
Credit insurance
Factoring
Commerce de gros de produits pharmaceutiques

A 360° Fibus client: factoring, credit insurance, and IT solution in Italy

Programme details

  • Annual revenue: €670m
  • Facility: €140m

Challenges

Secure and optimise financing conditions in an LBO context to support both organic and external growth, by rationalising multiple local solutions into a single factoring facility

Country

Italy

Our realisations

  • Increase in total financing capacity by €100m, moving from 4 separate factors to a single factoring facility with one provider, for an equivalent total of €140m
  • 3-year committed, confidential, non-recourse facility enabling off-balance sheet treatment
  • Deployment of our ARI Trade platform to manage both factoring and credit insurance through a single integrated interface
Healthcare and pharmaceuticals
Credit insurance
Digital solution
Factoring
Conseil en Hardware et software

Implementation of factoring and credit insurance programs for an SME

Programme details

  • Assigned turnover: €6m
  • Facility: €1m

Challenges

Support growth and secure cash flow

Country

France

Our realisations

  • Implementation of a factoring program with delegated credit insurance to finance growth while securing cash flow
Technology and IT
Credit insurance
Factoring