Need LBO Model Help

Hello Fellow WSOers,

I am stumped thinking how I can about setting up the following LBO after being given a CIM:

For sources and uses, assume a purchase of 65% of the company and a equity rollover equal to 35% of the purchase price. Assume leverage of 3.5x EBITDA in senior debt.

The task is to build a three statement short form LBO using a given CIM for a private company. The way I was thinking that the purchase price would be 65% of total Debt and Equity which would also include 35% equity rollover but is that a right way to approach it?

Thanks for any and all advice

Update: Thanks for all the incredibly helpful responses. Much appreciated!!!

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Thanks for the response. My EBITDA is 11 million in this scenario and Total EV is 100 with Net Debt of 35 and Equity of 65.

I can PM you other details given the nature of the question.

Authored by: Certified Corporate Development Professional - Director
 

Is your question how to set up the S&U? This is how I interpret the info you've provided:

Sources: 38.5 Senior Debt (11mm x 3.5) 35.0 Rolled Equity 30.0 New Cash Equity

Uses: 3.5 Cash to Balance Sheet (to get to your $35 net debt figure) 35.0 Rolled Equity 65.0 Purchase of remaining equity (or refinancing existing debt if there was any)

New Cap Structure 38.5 Senior Debt 65.0 Equity 3.5 Cash

 
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The only question I would have for that is I am only purchasing 65% of the company, so if that ultimately would be the 65% of the Total Enterprise Value (assuming a entry of 8x)? The way I ultimately thought about it:

TEV at 100%: 88 TEV at 65%: 57.2

Source: 5 - Min Cash already on balance sheet

38.5 - Senior Debt (11mm x 3.5) 7.4 - Rolled Equity (35% of TEV at 65%) 30.0 - New Cash Equity

Uses: 3 - Min Cash 57.2 - Purchase of remaining equity (or refinancing existing debt if there was any) 2 - Advisory Fees

New Cap Structure 38.5 - Senior Debt 37.4 - Equity 3.5 - Cash

Am I thinking of this right?

Authored by: Certified Corporate Development Professional - Director
 

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