Leveraged Buyout (LBO) Financial Model (Excel XLSX)

Advanced Financial Model presenting a potential acquisition of a public or private company using a significant amount of borrowed funds.

The model is user friendly and fully customizable and analyses the following issues:
-Determining a fair valuation for a company (including an ability-to-pay analysis)
-Determining the achieved equity returns (through IRR calculations)
-Determining the effect of recapitalizing the company through issuance of debt to replace equity
-Determining the debt service limitations of a company from its cash flows

The model includes 3 Statement Financial Model with Scenarios, Financing & Debt Schedule, Closing Balance sheet with adjustments, WACC Analysis & DCF Valuation and Summary of Credit Metrics and various Financial Ratios.

General Note

Formulas are in black, hard coded numbers in blue and links from other worksheets in green.
User needs to update only the blue colored hard coded numbers
As a general rule, try to avoid changing the formulas in the cells in the output tabs. Please contact us if you need assistance on the functionality of the template

Input – Output Data

The model includes the following input drivers & assumptions
-General Deal & Entry Assumptions
-Transaction Funding
-Debt Capital Structure
-Sources and Uses of Cash
-Growth Projections
-Exit Assumptions

The inputs produce the following:
-3 Statement Financial Model including 5-Year Forecast
-Financing & Debt Repayment Schedule
-Transaction closing calculations and closing balance sheet with adjustments
-Calculation of WACC & DCF Valuation Model including Sensitivity Analysis
-Summary of Credit Metrics and various Financial Ratios

Step by Step Methodology is included in the Excel File