Houlihan Lokey Advises UPFRONT GROUP

Houlihan Lokey is pleased to announce the successful refinancing and growth financing of UPFRONT GROUP, a portfolio company of AUCTUS Capital Partners (AUCTUS). The growth financing supports the company’s buy-and-build trajectory, scaling the existing platform and thereby accelerating the company’s growth. Houlihan Lokey served as the financial advisor for the transaction.

The company is an integrated building envelope solutions platform that combines specialised midsized companies across façade and roofing. The group delivers end-to-end solutions across the entire value chain, covering planning, engineering, production, installation, and maintenance. The platform’s strategic focus addresses key market drivers: growing demands for energy efficiency and sustainability, the increasing technical complexity of modern building envelopes, and the need among institutional and commercial clients for integrated, scalable solutions from a single source. Operating in a fragmented market, UPFRONT GROUP brings together complementary capabilities across materials such as wood, aluminium, glass, and bitumen, as well as across trades and service depth, enabling scalable one-stop solutions for institutional and commercial customers. This has been established under the ownership of AUCTUS through bolt-on acquisitions and will be further developed through the projected buy-and-build trajectory.

Based in Munich, Germany, and founded in 2001, AUCTUS is an independent investment company founded by entrepreneurs that invests in opportunities across the small to very large company spectrum in the middle-market segment, either as new platforms or as add-on acquisitions to existing platforms. For more than 20 years, AUCTUS has been supporting companies on their path to market leadership with flexible, pragmatic equity solutions.

Houlihan Lokey provided debt advice on all commercial aspects of the financing transaction and secured an attractive, tailor-made, and flexible financing solution, incorporating operating guarantee facilities to support the group’s organic and inorganic growth strategy and its daily operations.

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