A client of yours is weighing debt. Introduce them well.
When an accountant or corporate adviser has a client facing a maturing facility, an acquisition or a raise, an introduction to Solon puts a borrower-side debt adviser alongside you. The client stays yours; we handle the debt.
How the introduction works
- Client
- Stays your client throughout
- Confidence
- Shared only with the client's consent
- Fee
- Borrower-paid; any lender fee disclosed first
- Focus
- Debt only, £3–15m, across the structure
A short introduction, then we run the process.
You spot the need first.
A facility maturing, an acquisition on the table, covenants tightening, a bank that has gone quiet. You often see it before anyone — in the management figures, in the year-end conversation, in a question the client asks in passing.
You make the introduction.
A line to us, or a warm three-way email — whichever suits the relationship. You do not need to size the deal or prepare anything; we take it from the first note and keep you copied to the extent you and the client want.
We run the mandate.
We frame the requirement, prepare the materials, run a whole-of-market process and negotiate the terms. The client decides. You keep the relationship, and the client comes back to you with a financing settled rather than a problem still open.
The standard of what your client receives is public. The specimen information memorandum, lender deck and financial model show the preparation a lender sees on every mandate, and how we are paid is set out plainly: a success fee on completion, with any retainer credited against it. Where the honest answer is to take the bank’s offer, or not to borrow at all, we will say so.
Your client stays your client.
We advise on debt, and only on debt. We do not audit, we do not keep the books, and we do not compete for the wider relationship. The introduction hands us the financing; everything else remains with you.
The relationship stays yours.
We are a single-service debt adviser. We do not offer audit, tax or accounting, and we have no interest in the wider engagement. When the financing is done, the client remains yours — with a debt facility in place, not a gap you now have to explain.
Everything is held in confidence.
Nothing you share is used or passed on without the client's consent. We agree with you how the client should be approached before we approach them, and we keep you as involved, or as far in the background, as you and the client prefer.
The fee is the client's, and it is disclosed.
Solon is paid by the borrower it acts for, on a success fee set out in the engagement letter. Where a lender pays instead, it is disclosed to the client in writing first. Most introductions carry no fee; where an introducer arrangement exists, it is agreed in writing and disclosed, so nothing changes hands that your client does not see.
Why we are not on the FCA register.
We are not FCA-authorised because this work does not require it. Arranging ordinary commercial debt for corporate borrowers sits outside the FSMA regulatory perimeter: corporate borrowers only, loan facilities rather than tradeable instruments, and nothing secured on residential property. Our written perimeter analysis is available on request.
The mandates below your floor.
Most established advisory practices have a level below which a debt mandate cannot carry the team it needs, and the approaches keep arriving anyway: through the audit line, off the back of a sale mandate, from a long-standing client whose facility is maturing. Sending them back to the incumbent bank is not an answer you would choose for a client.
We take the £3–15m debt mandates that sit below that line, run them to the same standard as the work above it, and hand back when the financing is done. We do not compete for the engagements your team is built for; the client returns to you, and the next mandate in your own band stays yours. For an M&A team, that includes the buyer whose acquisition debt is the piece holding up a sale: we arrange the debt, you keep the transaction.
Make the introduction.
Tell us who the client is and the situation in a line. We reply to you first, agree how you would like the conversation handled, and only then approach the client — with your consent and, where you prefer, alongside you.