Ocean Capital

What is Ocean Capital?

Ocean Capital is a merchant banking services firm specializing in providing tailored solutions to medium-sized enterprises across Europe, with a particular focus on the industrial and technology sectors. They offer a range of services to assist dominant shareholders, who commission them over management teams, in asserting control over their companies, unlocking opportunities, and executing their ideas to realize their business ambitions and dreams.

Ocean's services include facilitating acquisitions such as management buyouts (MBOs) and competitor asset purchases, optimizing capital employed by shareholders through share buy-backs, bridge loans to avoid dilution, and refinancing of non-strategic assets in off-balance sheet structures.

They also provide support for restructuring by aiding in debt refinancing and over-indebtedness situations. Additionally, they promote growth by putting together joint venture agreements, financing new production facilities, and helping with organic growth, all the while finding financial or industrial partners to reinforce a company's capital.

Ocean also offers capital raising services to secure funding for organic growth, bridge loans, and raising debt against specific assets, while providing advisory and conflict resolution support. They extend balance sheet services including custody of assets, trustee services, and off-balance sheet financing.

Their typical clients are European-based mid-cap private or family-owned enterprises, larger listed companies in semi-regulated sectors, and companies actively managing their balance sheet for off-balance sheet financings. Ocean Capital's approach is bespoke, recognizing that no two businesses, their challenges, ambitions, or dreams, are the same.

With their headquarters based in London and a global network of partners, they provide access to the global markets, offering both regulated and non-regulated services. The teams at Ocean Capital include Commercial, Origination, Corporate Finance and Execution, and Distribution, all working collaboratively to identify opportunities, develop client relations, execute transactions, and find capital solutions for clients.