Debt Advisory - Nielen Schuman

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Trusted by the most reputable investors and entrepreneurs in the market

We help you navigate the complex financing markets of the Benelux. Our team works with a wide range of financial products, from senior and asset-based debt to alternative options like unitranche and mezzanine loans, and structured equity solutions. Completing 20 to 30 transactions annually, our experienced team of senior Debt Advisory professionals ensures we always know where to find the optimal financing solution.

Our debt advisors connect the client’s strategy with the best financing structure and financing parties. Our experienced team maintains comprehensive knowledge of financing availability, market conditions, and terms across the capital spectrum. As a result, every financing solution is tailored to your specific situation and strategic objectives.

Proven Experience

Clients turn to us for clear judgement and reliable execution in their most important decisions. Our experience across transactions and financings enables us to deliver solutions that create lasting value.

14 x

Voted Best Debt Advisor

40 ⁺

Debt mandates annually

100 ⁺

Lenders in our network internationally

Trusted in Every Transaction

Refinancing

A refinancing is often a highly strategic objective that can stabilise the prospects of a business, secure its growth potential, enable a strategic pivot or secure a financial return for shareholders. Whatever the goal of the refinancing, thorough preparation is key to running a solid process and obtaining the best terms available.

Growth financing

With any company that is experiencing rapid growth, securing the capital required and having the flexibility to withstand any turbulence along the way is key for management and shareholders to realise their ambitions. Whether for acquisitions, organic growth, capital expenditures or working capital, we have the expertise to support you on your growth trajectory.

Acquisition Financing

When you are looking to acquire a target company, speed and certainty are often key differentiators between securing the deal or losing it to someone else. With the biggest network and the strongest team in the market, we can deliver financing when it really counts.

Restructuring

With our integrated approach combining debt and equity expertise, we negotiate on behalf of shareholders, management teams and borrowers with banks, funds and bondholders to secure covenant resets, attract fresh liquidity, dispose of non-core assets and restructure the capital structure as needed to protect your interests.

The principles that guide how we work with our clients and why professionals choose to grow with us.

We provide corporate finance advisory and execution services for medium to large sized corporations and investors. With our unique, independent approach, we have successfully closed more than 500 transactions.

Client centric, trusted advisor

Our clients are at the centre of everything we do. We build long-term relationships based on trust, continuity and a deep understanding of our clients’ strategic ambitions.

Quality driven

We believe that every assignment requires a fully customized approach. Our advice is grounded in quality, attention to detail and the conviction that finance follows strategy.

Multidisciplinary

We support our clients across M&A, capital raising and strategic advisory. By managing the interplay between our core capabilities, we deliver solutions that go beyond individual transactions and create lasting value.

Track record

We maintain superior relationships with all leading domestic and international debt and equity providers.

Specac

Advisor to company

January 2026

HG Cleaning

Advisor to company

January 2026

Tjoapack

Advisor to company

The origins of our firm

Nielen Schuman was founded in 2002 by Mr. Paul Nielen and Mr. Robert Schuman, two Dutch bankers who were early to recognise the importance of truly independent advice for owners and companies when selling or buying a business.

As independent advisory boutiques have become a staple of global corporate finance advisory nowadays, we are proud that our history spans multiple decades and the original enterprising DNA is still ingrained in each advisor for our firm.

Today, Nielen Schuman is an international corporate finance advisory boutique with an entrepreneurial team of over 35 professionals across M&A and debt advisory. Our proven track-record over the last 24 years has allowed us to build and foster long term relationships with our clients, forming the foundation for future growth and continued success

Our track record