Financing a micro-lbo

I've been reading Predator's Ball. Most of the heavy hitters (Icahn, Perelman, Peltz, etc.) started with really really small acquisitions.

If you were going to buy a company with say 25 million revenue, 1.25 million ebitda, at a 6x multiple for 7.5 million, and only cash in the low hundred thousands, how would you finance it?

This has to be possible. There is someone out there, probably not on this board, that knows how to finance something like this.

My thoughts are:

Seller's note: 2.5mm

Bank note: 1mm

Equity: 500k

Where does the rest come from?

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That's a little small even for micro-LBO's I would think. Really something like that could just primarily be driven by bank paper couldn't it?

 

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