Lower middle market private equity groups and investment firms are lean and underserved by intermediaries. Ladrigan directly engages capital providers so your team doesn’t have to.
We act as an extension of your team—shaping narratives, saving time, and delivering with credibility.
Ladrigan covers ground and executes quickly. We are strengthened by the knowledge of the behaviors of participants in an institutional investment process.
Due to our deep experience on both sides of the DCM table, Ladrigan covers ground quickly and knows how lenders think. We differentiate ourselves by leveraging our formal credit training towards crisp and thoughtful lender discussions early in the process - to separate the contenders from the pretenders.
We believe thoughtful capital can drive long-term success. We build with intention, not volume.
Ladrigan works with wide range of capital providers that include traditional middle market and non-bank direct lenders. Ladrigan's focus on smaller check sizes and our curated outreach identifies investors with the proper appetite, whether a traditional or unique solution is desired.
We support founder transitions, growth investments, and recapitalizations—with care and clarity.
Ladrigan offers capital advisory solutions for the lower middle market. We deliver tailored strategies for to access capital from our curated pool of lower middle market participants. Ladrigan adds immediate value as a time saver for a PEG recapitalization process. We maintain curated access to a wide range of in market, institutional quality professionals—capital providers, attorneys, accountants, M&A and more.
First institutional dollars in the door for multi generational, founder led, historically profitable, lower middle market businesses, access to growth capital.
Institutional quality without the bureaucracy. We move quickly, communicate clearly, and deliver outcomes.
Ladrigan executes an institutional quality product at a great price point. The standard engagement includes:
Full-scale financial underwrite and organization of salient data points, preparation of marketing materials, to ensure the ask clears the market hurdle
Initial capital provider reach out via an email teaser followed by one-on-one phone calls to separate the contenders from the pretenders
Manage NDA process and diligence, monitor access to data room material
Narrow the investor field and curate access to management, term optimization and confirmatory diligence
Secure engagement letter and review and negotiate legal documentation prior to close
We save time, streamline the institutional recapitalization process, address the intensive confirmatory diligence of the lower middle market, and facilitate transactions across portfolio companies, time-sensitive add-ons, and acquisition platforms under LOI.
Ladrigan fills the intermediary gap in the underserved lower middle market, where traditional advisors overcharge and deliver subpar process management. We are a trusted partner across the portfolio company lifecycle to let professionals focus on operations. We do not spray and pray, overcharge for mediocre execution, or act as a mechanical conduit where junior associates cut and paste data
Working across the financial sector for over twenty years, Tom spent much of his time working as a commercial banking/leveraged finance underwriter. He experienced the lack of engagement appetite for sub ~$15 million EBITDA businesses and identified this space as underserved by existing intermediaries – with the belief that the majority of the lower middle market borrowers he encountered should have a path to broader credit markets. It wasn’t that a deal wasn’t there, it was that the larger intermediaries were not motivated by the smaller check sizes and were not suited to guide a lower middle market company through the DCM process. In 2020, Tom launched Ladrigan Management to disrupt the lower middle market debt advisory space and utilize his fundamental credit skills to arrange credit for sponsors and owners that run lean and would much rather be doing something else.
Born and raised in Bergen County, NJ, Tom lives in Glen Rock, NJ with his wife Anna and two boys, Thomas and Henry. He enjoys coaching and chauffeuring his young boys to various commitments, trips to the Jersey Shore, the New York Football Giants, eating his daily bagel across the street from his office at the best bagel store in the tri state area George’s Hot Bagels and domestic and international travel. Favorite trips: organized a whirlwind World War 1 battlefield tour with 3 of his childhood friends, parked on the infield at Talladega Superspeedway despite being a NASCAR newbie, drove across the USA with Anna stopping at quirky restaurants seen on food TV shows.
