Jennifer Post
Jennifer Post counsels venture funds, BDCs, and other direct lenders in a variety of finance transactions with a focus on technology and life sciences industries. She assists her lender clients in structuring secured credit facilities, as well as documenting equity enhancement instruments and investment rights. In addition to counseling lenders on commercial transaction matters, she assists her clients in structuring funds, co-investment entities, joint ventures and account management structures often including leverage and warehouse lines. In connection with the documentation of credit facilities, she supports her clients in due diligence, documentation, syndications, participations, portfolio management, intercreditor agreements and distressed and turnaround matters. She has over thirty years of experience in venture debt transactions working in both the east coast and west coast venture markets. She serves as the Co-Chair of Thompson Coburn’s Emerging Companies Group.
April 10, 2025
Timing Considerations: Raising Debt Alongside Equity, Raising Between Rounds, Raising to Fund an Acquisition – and the Unique Considerations of Each Approach
• Value proposition of debt versus equity – various stages of growth
• Cost of capital in flat, rising or struggling valuation environments
• Control and structural considerations alongside or following an equity round
• Assessing the accretive nature of acquisition targets and forecasting financial impact
• Parameters on acquisition advances (fully committed v. fully discretionary or hybrid)
• Who has the negotiating leverage and when (company v. lender) – what creates the negotiating advantages?
• Syndicate and board strength – measuring risk as to future capital raise challenges and ability to support M&A strategies
Wednesday March 6, 2024
VC Debt Lending: How It Is Filling the Funding Gaps in the Equity and Bank Lending Markets
- What are funding gaps, and how do companies fill them?
- VC Debt lending provides essential funds in equity and bank lending markets
- Tapping into the possibilities for growth and revenue
