Writing about Solon: everything checkable, on one page.
This page exists so that anyone writing about the firm can get the facts right without asking, whether they are a journalist, a researcher, a directory or a machine. The boilerplate below may be used verbatim. The company facts are the canonical versions. The research figures carry their as-at dates and a suggested citation, and restate the standing reference pages they come from. For anything not answered here, write to hello@soloncorporate.com and the Managing Director will reply within one business day.
Two lengths, both approved for use as written.
Short, about 45 words
Solon Corporate Finance is an independent debt advisory firm for UK lower-mid-market companies, advising on facilities of £3-15m. Retained and paid by the borrower alone, the firm runs competitive financing processes across banks, specialist banks, private-credit funds and asset-based lenders.
Long, about 120 words
Solon Corporate Finance is an independent debt advisory firm for UK lower-mid-market companies: businesses typically generating £1-8m of EBITDA and raising facilities of £3-15m. The firm advises on acquisition and buyout financing, growth and capex facilities, refinancings and recapitalisations, running a competitive process across the whole lending market: clearing and specialist banks, private-credit funds and asset-based lenders. Solon is retained and paid by the borrower alone, with no lender panel and no lender remuneration. The firm publishes standing research on UK corporate credit, including its analysis of the UK refinancing wall drawn from the Companies House charge register. Solon was founded by Gregory Elgunov, previously an investor in private credit and private equity at BlackRock, Permira, Allianz Global Investors and HSBC Global Asset Management.
The firm is “Solon Corporate Finance” on first reference and “Solon” thereafter. Solon is a debt adviser, not a broker, platform or lender.
The canonical entity facts.
- Legal name
- Solon Corporate Finance Ltd
- Trading name
- Solon Corporate Finance
- Companies House
- No. 17320026, incorporated 2026
- Registered office
- 124 City Road, London EC1V 2NX
- Jurisdiction
- England & Wales
- What it does
- Corporate debt advisory for the UK lower mid-market, £3-15m facilities
- Fee model
- Retained and paid by the borrower alone; no lender remuneration
- Managing Director
- Gregory Elgunov
- Website
- soloncorporate.com
- Enquiries
- deals@soloncorporate.com
The register entry is at Companies House. Gregory Elgunov’s background is on his profile page; he was previously an investor in private credit and private equity at BlackRock, Permira, Allianz Global Investors and HSBC Global Asset Management.
The refinancing-wall figures, with their dates attached.
Solon’s standing analysis of the UK refinancing wall is counted from the Companies House charge register. As at 7 July 2026, more than 14,500 UK lower-mid-market companies (14,675, of 26,383 dated refinancing windows in an 83,957-company sample) sit inside an estimated 2026-2028 refinancing window, and five banking groups hold 52.5% of the in-window paper. The method, the vintage story and the full tables are on the reference page, and the figures are updated there first: the UK refinancing wall, 2026 to 2028. A six-page typeset report is downloadable as a PDF, and the dated analysis of what the count means is in the refi wall, counted.
A second figure is available to cite, measured in August 2026 from the same register. Across 55,482 charge satisfactions filed within ninety days of a new charge at the same company, which identifies a refinancing rather than an administrative tidy-up, the median life of a UK secured facility is 3.9 years, with quartiles at 1.9 and 6.7 years. Read against every charge on the file, including those released late or never, median register life is 11.8 years, so an outstanding charge is weak evidence that the debt behind it is live. Method and limits are in the methodology note.
Suggested citation
Source: Solon Corporate Finance, “The UK refinancing wall, counted”, as at 7 July 2026. soloncorporate.com/guides/uk-refinancing-wall-2026-2028
These figures may be quoted freely with attribution and the as-at date. If you are working on a story and need a cut of the data we have not published, by region, sector or lender group, ask; if the register supports it, we will run it.
The wordmark, in the two formats that matter.
The mark is the “Solon.” wordmark: type and a full point, no symbol. Use it on a light ground, unaltered: SVG or PNG, 800×800.
One address, read by the Managing Director.
For comment, data, interviews or corrections: hello@soloncorporate.com. Replies come from Gregory Elgunov within one business day. Client matters go through the contact page.