What Is A Bridge Loan?

Patrick Curtis

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Expertise:Investment Banking | Private Equity

Bridge Loanis a term used frequently in investment banking,private equityandventure capital. It is a loan which is used to enable a firm to undertake an acquisition / takeover /LBO/ IPO. In anLBOor other corporate acquisition-type activity, the PE or VC firm will go to theinvestment bankto seek abridge loan, then will make the purchase of the target company. The firm will then use its newly acquired target to issue corporate high-yielding bonds to pay off thebridge loan, and then will use future cash flows to pay the bond yields. In an IPO, thebridge loan担保以确保那t the company can continue operating whilst it navigates through the tumultuous time of IPO'ing onto the stock market. The company will give theinvestment banksome stock at a cheap price in order to pay off thebridge loan, and theinvestment banksells the stock (if it so wishes) in order to recoup its loan.

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