Direct Lending

A Market Leader with Deep Experience Across Multiple Cycles

Antares delivers customized lending solutions and financing to help private equity-owned companies grow. Our loans are primarily senior secured with hold capabilities of up to $500 million or more across first lien, second lien and unitranche facilities.

Antares’ portfolio is well-diversified across industries. We value defensive, recession-resilient sectors with companies that have strong value propositions and market positions and demonstrated free cash flow.

Throughout our 25+ year history, we’ve built deep expertise through credit cycles. We have a dedicated team of seasoned credit advisory professionals who work closely with borrowers and private equity sponsors to support companies if they show signs of distress. With our leading role in the majority of our financings and close sponsor relationships, we can come together early to craft thoughtful solutions and facilitate positive outcomes.

Flexible Financing Solutions

Cash Flow Lending

We make significant financial commitments in our transactions and leverage decades of underwriting expertise to deliver optimal, reliable financing solutions to our sponsors and borrowers. We also have the ability to deploy our sophisticated capital markets platform to maximize flexibility in meeting client financing needs.

Products:

  • Revolvers
  • Term loans
  • Unitranche loans
  • Delayed draw term loans
  • 2nd lien
  • Equity tags

Unitranche

A pioneer in unitranche financing with 13+ years of experience, Antares’ unitranche product delivers certainty of terms while providing sponsors and borrowers with faster, simpler access to complete capital solutions. With capacity to hold up to $500 million in a single transaction, Antares can leverage its Capital Markets group for larger facility sizes, providing 100% commitment with limited to no flex.

  • Lead and underwrite $200 million to $3.5 billion
  • Streamlined approval process
  • Certainty of executionLPC league table position Source: Refinitiv LPC for Sponsored Middle Market Transactions as published on January 4, 2023; Middle Market definition: Borrower sales size <= $500M and total loan deal size <=$500M. Rank is by total deal count from 2010 – 2022. Refinitiv rankings are based on submissions from league table participants in accordance with Refinitiv submission requirements and detailed league table rankings criteria. Pursuant to such criteria, Refinitiv reserves the right to review and determine league table eligibility and challenge validity based on the best information available. Moreover, under the criteria, a deal submitted for league table purposes may be challenged by other firms questioning the accuracy of the data. Antares does not pay a fee for league table consideration. The number of firms considered varies over time based on the Refinitiv criteria which is available from Antares upon request. Note that the rating is not indicative of Antares or Antares Capital Adviser’s future performance.
  • No ratings requirements
  • No intercreditor conflicts

Capital Markets Expertise

Antares’ fully scaled capital markets platform leverages the powerful combination of product knowledge, industry experience and relationships with more than 400 private equity sponsors to meet the needs of both borrowers and investors.

#1 League table positionLPC league table position Source: Refinitiv LPC for Sponsored Middle Market Transactions as published on January 4, 2023; Middle Market definition: Borrower sales size <= $500M and total loan deal size <=$500M. Rank is by total deal count from 2010 – 2022. Refinitiv rankings are based on submissions from league table participants in accordance with Refinitiv submission requirements and detailed league table rankings criteria. Pursuant to such criteria, Refinitiv reserves the right to review and determine league table eligibility and challenge validity based on the best information available. Moreover, under the criteria, a deal submitted for league table purposes may be challenged by other firms questioning the accuracy of the data. Antares does not pay a fee for league table consideration. The number of firms considered varies over time based on the Refinitiv criteria which is available from Antares upon request. Note that the rating is not indicative of Antares or Antares Capital Adviser’s future performance.

  • #1 Bookrunner for syndicated, sponsor backed middle-market loans by deal count for the last 13 years



Broad, deep suite of capabilities:

  • Structuring
  • Syndication
  • Secondary Trading
  • Credit Ratings Advisory