Oct, 2024

Company: Puralube
Industry: Energy
Transaction: $166 million debt / equity recapitalization
Puralube was formed by Formed by Allied Resource Corporation in 1995 to create a series of specialty refineries producing high quality specialty lube oils from used lube oil by utilizing a breakthrough technology developed by UOP LLC (“UOP”). The UOP technology, known as the HyLube™ Process, efficiently converts used lubricating oils into high quality base oils. Puralube maintains an exclusive worldwide license (except in selected countries in North Africa and the Middle East) to commercialize the HyLube™ Process. UOP, a joint venture between Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, NJ) and Union Carbide Corporation (Danbury, CT), is a leading international supplier and licensor of process technology, catalysts, absorbents, process plants, and technical services to the petroleum refining, petrochemical, and gas processing industries.
Company: Mohegan Energy Trustees
Industry: Mining
Transaction: $100,000,000 Debt Facility
Investor: Orion Energy Partners
RMG’s Role: Sole Adviser to Mohegan Energy Trustees
Mohegan Energy Trustees, LLC (“Mohegan”), is a newly formed, private company that responsibly and efficiently operates a low vol metallurgical coal operation in West Virginia. Following its acquisition of Cornerstone, Mohegan is focused on ramping-up production, lowering costs, and improving existing infrastructure. Mohegan, through its wholly owned subsidiary Cornerstone Minerals, LLC (“Cornerstone”), used the facility to fund the acquisition of a low vol metallurgical coal operation and related equipment in West Virginia from Met Resources, LLC.
Company: Teknoflor Holdings LLC
Industry: Flooring Distributor
Transaction: $29,000,000 Debt Facilities
Investor: PNC Business Credit and CVC Credit Partners
RMG’s Role: Sole Adviser to Teknoflor Holdings LLC
Teknoflor Holdings LLC is a distributor of sheet vinyl flooring products sold primarily in the hospital, educational and military markets. Teknoflor needed to arrange $29 million of debt capital in order to purchase the company. RMG arranged both the bank facility as well as the term loan facility.
Company: Excel Corporation
Industry: Business Services
Transaction: $25,000,000 Debt Facility
Investor: GACP Finance Company
RMG’s Role: Sole Adviser to Excel Corporation
Excel Corporation is in the credit card processing space. Use of proceeds was to refinance existing debt, working capital and acquisition capital.
Company: Enovix
Transaction: $23 million provate placement
California-based Enovix is pioneering a silicon lithium-ion battery for mobile products. Enovix has built a new battery platform with an orthogonal approach which enables much greater innovation in materials, design, production, and packaging than a conventional lithium-ion battery. With strategic investments and support from industry leaders Cypress Semiconductor, Intel, and Qualcomm, Enovix is enabling engineers and designers to deliver on the promise of an extraordinary mobile future for global consumers.
Company: Daybreak Game Company LLC
Industry: Consumer/Entertainment
Transaction: $10,000,000 Bank Facility
Investor: Heritage Bank of Commerce
RMG’s Role: Sole Adviser to Heritage Bank of Commerce
Daybreak Game Company LLC is a producer and distributor of online games and was previously a division of Sony Entertainment. Post acquisition the buyer was looking for a working capital line of credit. RMG introduced Heritage Bank of Commerce and helped arrange the $10 million bank facility.
Company: Allconnect, Inc.
Industry: Business Services
Transaction: $7,000,000 Bank Facility
Investor: Heritage Bank of Commerce
RMG’s Role: Sole Adviser to Allconnect, Inc.
Allconnect, Inc. is a marketing services company whose customers are the voice/video and data companies (i.e. cable companies, satellite TV etc). The Company was in a turnaround mode and could not source debt capital on its own. RMG sourced a low cost bank facility that provided critical working capital to fund the turnaround.
Company: Chemical Information Services
Industry: Business Services
Transaction: $8,600,000 Debt Facility
Investor: Harvest Capital Credit Corporation
RMG’s Role: Sole Adviser to Chemical Information Services
Chemical Information Services has a database of information used by manufacturers of Chemical and Pharmaceutical products. The Company has a subscription based revenue model that generates consist revenue and cash flow. Use of proceeds was to refinance existing debt and working capital.
Company: Horsehead Industries, Inc.
Industry: Metals Recycling and Environmental Services
Transaction: $125,000,000 Debt Restructuring
RMG’s Role: Co-Advisor securing facility with Mitsui & Co. LTD, TIAA CREF, AND VIACOM.
Horsehead Industries is the largest zinc producer in the United States and the leading manufacturer of value-added zinc products including zinc oxide and zinc powder. Leading the industry as an integrated producer as well as the world’s largest producer of zinc from recycled sources, Horsehead’s electrothermic smelting facility, the only one of its type in the Western Hemisphere, provides unique capabilities allowing it to utilize the most diverse range of zinc-bearing feed materials. Horshead’s facilities process hundreds of thousands of tons per year of electric arc furnace (EAF) dust generated by the steel industry. EAF dust is a listed hazardous waste. It contains approximately 20% zinc from galvanized scrap melted by steel mini-mills. Horsehead’s Waelz kiln technology has been designated by the U.S. EPA as the “Best Demonstrated Available Technology” for processing EAF dust.