Services
The Silverfern Group is an independently owned Merchant Bank focused primarily on the Private Equity Sponsor community. As a firm of Senior Merchant Bankers, we specialize in originating and structuring proprietary (non-auction) buy-side Mergers & Acquisitions opportunities for our Clients.
Silverfern’s Managing Directors work with each relationship Client individually and across industry sectors:
- Understanding/development of industry focus/theses
- Understanding existing portfolio companies’ status, needs, direction
- Delivery of Silverfern resources to match Client’s identified needs/focus
- Introduction of deal-ready SAB CEOs to senior Client Partners by industry sector
Silverfern's unique approach revolves around having our most senior bankers staffed one-on-one with Silverfern Advisory Board deal-ready CEOs. We deliver real-world, senior experience and often most importantly, real-world counsel to our Clients.
In 2009 Silverfern originated over 85 proprietary transaction
opportunities for its Clients, representing $38 billion of Total Enterprise
Value and the opportunity to deploy over $20 billion in equity capital.
Additionally, Silverfern provides equity Co-Investment services to its private equity Clients by way of Silverfern affiliate Silverfern Co-Investment PartnersTM (SCIP). SCIP is a proprietary private equity co-investment vehicle that seeks to make equity co-investments in the range of $25 million to $150 million per transaction (SCIP’s share) with leading private equity firms in buyouts, acquisitions and recapitalizations worldwide.
Silverfern affiliate the Silverfern Credit Opportunities Fund provides flexible financing alternatives for leading companies and financial sponsors alike, investing up and down the capital structure with wide ($25mm - $500mm+) investment latitude.
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