Industrial Services Cross-Border Structuring: An Independent Sponsor's Counsel
When the deal is industrial services and the question is Cross-Border Structuring, the structure decisions in the first 30 days outlast the next five years. This is where Jason Powell works.
Industrial Services deals in the lower middle market run a specific playbook. Cross-Border Structuring is where the structure either holds or starts to leak.
The typical industrial services platform sits at $10M to $130M EV with EBITDA in the $3M to $22M range. The thesis runs on regional consolidation of plant maintenance, specialty contracting, or rentals. An EMR over 1.0 will cost you a half-turn at close unless you fix the story upfront.
How Cross-Border Structuring actually gets structured.
Map jurisdictional tax exposure with US and foreign counsel before the LOI.
Plan repatriation mechanics if cash is generated offshore.
Address CFIUS review where foreign capital is in the LP base.
Structure for treaty benefits where the operating geographies allow.
In industrial services, layer in MSA renewal calendar mapped pre-LOI as part of the Cross-Border Structuring workstream.
Treating cross-border deals like US deals with extra steps. Tax, regulatory, and timing assumptions break differently.
"Cross-border deals need three sets of advisors at the table from day one. Bring them."Jason Powell · Cross-Border Structuring
The deal is one thing. The capital that opens up after close is another.
Most independent sponsors solve the closing capital and then run into the post-close capital problem alone. The capital markets relationships that matter at month 18 are part of this practice.
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Cross-Border Structuring for Industrial Services, on independent sponsor terms.
Independent sponsor counsel that already speaks fluent deal-by-deal economics, structures clean LPAs, and travels with capital markets relationships for what comes after close.