Capital structuring for growth and expansion

Growth creates pressure - on cash, systems, leadership and capital. And too often, growth ambitions outpace a business’s financial architecture. Whether funding expansion, entering new markets or scaling operations, getting the capital structure right is essential.

BM&T helps businesses design and implement capital strategies that support expansion - without compromising control, sustainability or stakeholder trust. We work across debt, equity and hybrid instruments to ensure funding aligns with operational readiness and long-term value creation.

Key challenges we address

Scaling without over-leveraging or losing strategic control
Replacing shareholder support with institutional capital
Expanding into new sectors, product lines or geographies
Preparing a business for future sale or investor entry
Ensuring the right mix of working capital, growth capital and governance

Our approach

Capital needs and readiness assessment: We assess growth plans against operational readiness and capital structure constraints, identifying gaps and options.
Strategic capital structuring: We design capital mixes - combining local funding, structured finance and investor alignment - to support growth ambitions.
Stakeholder communication and reporting: We prepare the business for funding conversations through trusted narratives, financial clarity and future-facing planning.
Access to trusted capital pathways: Where appropriate, we draw on aligned funders and structured finance networks to introduce opportunity - with neutrality.
Execution support: We help secure, manage and embed capital use - ensuring funds support commercial and strategic aims, not just liquidity.

Why BM&T?

We build capital structures that serve the strategy: We don’t raise capital for capital’s sake. We ensure it fits the business and where it’s going.
Independent, experienced, trusted: We are capital-neutral and execution-experienced - trusted by investors and boards to structure smart.
From local facilities to global funds: We support access to growth capital through banks, asset finance, structured credit and special situations investors.
Cross-border, commercially fluent: We understand how international businesses fund and grow - and we execute with discipline across borders.
Growth with control: We help growing businesses fund their future without losing their centre of gravity.

BM&T supported Interfas, a French food-labelling business and subsidiary of a distressed US parent, through a period of commercial decline caused by lack of direction and support from HQ.

Interfas

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