Crown Partners is an investment banking firm specializing in asset-based finance and collateral-driven credit. We advise leading private credit firms and asset managers on investment strategy, platform development, transaction evaluation, and portfolio advisory. We also advise financial sponsors and corporations on structuring and executing senior financings, refinancings, and restructurings for asset-intensive businesses.

Our deep expertise in asset-based lending provides the foundation for a broader perspective on credit and capital structure for asset-intensive businesses. We evaluate collateral, cash flow, and enterprise value together, advising on financing solutions ranging from traditional ABL to cash-flow term loans and hybrid structures. Combining technical expertise, longstanding institutional relationships, and sophisticated advisory judgment, we help clients evaluate opportunities, navigate complex transactions, and achieve their strategic objectives.

Crown's senior professionals have worked together for two decades, bringing extensive experience as both principals and advisors. Having facilitated more than $6 billion in asset-based finance transactions, our team offers a distinctive combination of market intelligence, structuring expertise, and execution capabilities. Every engagement is led directly by the firm's senior leadership, ensuring continuity of judgment and personal accountability throughout the advisory process.

Recent Transactions

Our value proposition

Expertise: Our significant expertise across hundreds of debt capital transactions in various market cycles allows us to deliver superior client execution.  Our professional experience includes working within banking institutions, family offices, specialty finance companies, and together successfully building and managing a direct lending business. This diversity gives us a clear understanding of the needs of prospective borrowers, requirements and work flows of lenders, and how to effectively position opportunities for each party.

Focus: We are focused solely on debt capital solutions and are not distracted by other activities competing for our attention. By sticking to what we do best, we have the power to act decisively.

Access: A key aspect of our value proposition to our clients is the breadth and depth of our relationships with leadership and decision makers at key lending institutions.  Forged over decades of successful transactions and mutual trust building, these relationships foster efficiency and responsiveness.