“Configure leveraged its strong team, credit expertise, and industry relationships to run an efficient process and drive a great outcome for Easy Way and Insight.”
Configure Partners Advises Insight Equity on its Acquisition Financing for Easy Way
Atlanta, GA — Configure Partners, LLC (“Configure”), a leading middle-market investment bank, is pleased to announce the successful completion of a debt financing in support of Insight Equity’s (“Insight”) acquisition of Easy Way Leisure Corporation, Inc. (“Easy Way”). Easy Way is a leading manufacturer of outdoor furniture cushions, pillows, drapes and seat covers to high-end furnishing retailers in North America.
Configure acted as the exclusive financing advisor to Insight in connection with securing debt financing to facilitate the acquisition of Easy Way. Configure supported all aspects of the financing process including credit positioning, lender outreach, and negotiating the financing for the acquisition. Additionally, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP served as legal counsel to Insight on the financing.
“Configure leveraged its strong team, credit expertise, and industry relationships to run an efficient process and drive a great outcome for Easy Way and Insight. Configure has been a great partner for Insight and was a fixture throughout the process, heavily involved from marketing through documentation. We look forward to our continued partnership and want to thank the Configure team for their advice and support,” said Jeff Parent, Vice President, Insight Equity.
“The Insight Equity and Hunton teams are treasured friends to us, and we consider ourselves fortunate to have the opportunity to work with them on another successful financing,” said Joseph Weissglass, Managing Director at Configure Partners. “The Easy Way team navigated the unprecedented impacts of COVID-19, delivered a record year, and found a great partner in Insight Equity. The future for Easy Way and Insight Equity is bright.”
About Easy Way (https://easywayproducts.com)
Based in Cincinnati, OH, Easy Way is the premier provider of outdoor furniture cushions, pillows, drapes and seat covers in North America. Easy Way Products offers trend-setting design and development of outdoor lifestyle products for outdoor furniture retailers who prize quality and innovation. Through its near-shore manufacturing presence and highly skilled labor force, the Company delivers high quality, just-in-time inventory to the leading North American outdoor furnishing brands.
About Insight Equity (https://www.insightequity.com)
Insight Equity (www.insightequity.com) makes control investments in strategically viable, middle-market manufacturing and distribution businesses across a wide range of industries. Leveraging its collaborative value creation model, Insight Equity facilitates operating enhancements, efficiency improvements, and growth. The firm specializes in partnering with companies in complex, unique, or challenging situations, including corporate divestitures, management buyouts, growth opportunities, going-private transactions, restructurings, and transitions from family ownership. Insight Equity is headquartered near the Dallas / Ft. Worth International Airport in Southlake, Texas. The firm also has an office in New York City.