Tikehau Capital, a global alternative asset management group, has acted as sole-arranger of a unitranche facility to support IK Partners’ acquisition of DA Languages (DAL), a UK-based language services provider, from Foresight Group.
The financing, extended via Tikehau Capital’s Direct Lending strategy, includes an acquisition facility to fund M&A-led growth and an ESG ratchet mechanism, which should enable DAL to reduce its borrowing costs, subject to its performance in certain ESG criteria.
Through the provision of this facility, Tikehau Capital is partnering with DAL’s management team and IK Partners to support the company’s organic and inorganic growth strategy which seeks to consolidate the language services market in the UK.
