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Investments: Legacy Investments: Horizon Offshore
Horizon |  Investment Date: March 2004  |  Investment Type: Structured Finance

Business Description:
Horizon provides marine construction services to the offshore oil and gas industry around the world. The company performs a wide range of marine construction activities, including laying, burying and repairing marine pipelines; providing hook-up and commissioning services; installing offshore production platforms and other structures; and disassembling and salvaging production platforms and other structures.

Falcon Solution:
The company’s longer-term prospects were strong as it had a record backlog of contracted projects, but it was facing near-term liquidity concerns due to certain exogenous factors. Falcon’s highly structured financing provided the company with liquidity to execute its backlog. Falcon and its co-investors also supported the company with additional capital upon the occurrence of unforeseen challenges.

 

 

 

Industry:
Oil & gas services
Sponsor:
Company
Securities
Secured subordinated notes with warrants and convertible preferred stock
Financing Challenge
Publicly traded company with a record project backlog facing a temporary liquidity need
Exit Date:
Partial exit in June 2006, remainder in December 2007 upon a sale of the company