Gilbert Baltzer is a Director in Capital Advisory. He joined Solomon Partners in 2014.
Gilbert has over a decade of experience advising clients on a variety of assignments, with a primary focus on the arrangement of debt capital for a variety of purposes. Financing sources for these situations have included banks such as Bank of America, BMO, Capital One, Citizens Bank, ING, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Wells Fargo, and private credit funds such as BlackRock, PGIM Private Capital, Sound Point Capital, Tiger Finance, WhiteHawk Capital Partners and Wingspire Capital.
Select prior assignments include:
- Steve Madden’s issuance of a $250 million revolving credit facility and $300 million term loan to facilitate the acquisition of Kurt Geiger
- Ardian’s issuance of senior secured notes to facilitate the acquisition of CampusParc
- Key Food’s issuance of a revolving credit facility and term loan
- Maurices’ issuance of an asset-based revolving credit facility and FILO term loan
- Earthrise Energy’s issuance of a revolving credit facility and term loan
- Perry Ellis’ issuance of a $200 million asset-based revolving credit facility and $180 million term loan
- Brooks Brothers’ issuance of a $80 million Debtor-in-Possession facility and $32.5 million bridge loan as part of its Chapter 11 filing and Section 363 sale to SPARC Group
- Mission Pharmacal’s issuance of an asset-based term loan
Additional clients have included 3Gtms, Apollo Global Management, Ardian, Christie’s, Clairvest Group, Fred’s Inc., FreshDirect, Kingswood Capital Management, KKR, PVH Corp. and WM Partners.
Gilbert is a graduate of The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a BS, cum laude, in economics with concentrations in finance and operations and information management, and minors in Chinese and computer science.
