Leverage Finance - Acquisition Financing

Anyone know the differences between admin agent vs. book runner vs. lead arranger vs. doc agent? How many banks are involved in a vanilla acquisition financing? How much do each bank, depending on their role, charge for their fees in connection with this type of financing (let's say 500MM)?

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Agents - banks, bookrunners - B-D arms of banks (i.e. Wells Fargo Bank NA and Wells Fargo Securities LLC)

Generally Admin Agent is going to be the lead bank doing the financing (left lead).

Fees are going to depend on company size and best efforts vs. underwritten.

MM IB -> Corporate Development -> Strategic Finance
 

My understanding is that it depends on the bank. Sometimes they are together:

http://www.hsbcnet.com/gbm/products-services/financing/leveraged-acquis…

Sometimes they are separate:

http://cib.bnpparibas.com/Products-services/Financing-your-business/Cor…

http://cib.bnpparibas.com/Products-services/Financing-your-business/Lev…

LevFin is going to be focused solely on financial sponsor deals. Acquisition financing typical involves strategic M&A. LevFin also tends to be non-investment grade (at least at some firms - i.e. BarCap).

 
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peinvestor2012

My understanding is that it depends on the bank. Sometimes they are together:

http://www.hsbcnet.com/gbm/products-services/financing/leveraged-acquisition-finance.html

Sometimes they are separate:

http://cib.bnpparibas.com/Products-services/Financing-your-business/Corporate-Acquisition-Finance/page.aspx/147

http://cib.bnpparibas.com/Products-services/Financing-your-business/Leveraged-Finance/page.aspx/154

LevFin is going to be focused solely on financial sponsor deals. Acquisition financing typical involves strategic M&A. LevFin also tends to be non-investment grade (at least at some firms - i.e. BarCap).

Isn't LevFin always non-investment grade? Can't think of any where that isn't the case, but I'm not familiar with all the LevFin groups either. (This is curiosity not an attempt to cause an argument).

 

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