Corporate Loan Syndications & Capital Markets

Sunflower Bank’s experienced syndications team serves middle market companies nationwide.

As your business grows, your credit needs to evolve.  What happens when your business outgrows your bank's capabilities?

Sunflower Bank's Loan Syndications & Capital Markets team bridges that gap, providing access to the scale of a national platform with the responsiveness and relationship focus of a premier regional bank. We serve middle market and lower middle market companies, private equity firms, and family offices nationwide.

Comprehensive Syndication Services

From origination to ongoing agency, Sunflower Bank manages every phase of the syndicated loan lifecycle, delivering corporate debt financing solutions tailored to the complexity of middle market transactions.

  • Lead Arranger & Administrative Agent Services
    Sunflower Bank handles the full weight of organizing your lender group, from structuring and underwriting the initial facility to distributing participations among banking partners and institutional investors. As administrative agent, we manage day-to-day loan administration post-close, serving as the single point of contact between the borrower and the syndicate. 
  • Cash Flow Lending Syndication
    Structured around a company’s earnings power, cash flow syndications are ideal for businesses with recurring, stable revenue streams seeking growth capital, leveraged buyout financing, or recapitalizations. 
  • Asset-Based Lending Syndication 
    For companies in capital-intensive industries or those with cyclical cash flows, asset based syndications unlock liquidity by leveraging receivables, inventory, machinery, and equipment as collateral. Our focus is on asset values, not just cash flows, making syndicated ABL facilities a powerful tool for middle market borrowers.
  • Capital Markets & Institutional Placement
    When a transaction requires broader institutional participation, Sunflower Bank leverages deep relationships with banking partners, institutional investors, and asset backed marketplaces to raise capital efficiently, providing the distribution experience of a larger platform while preserving the speed your timeline demands.

Why Choose Sunflower Bank for Debt Capital?


  • ​Middle Market Specialization
    We don’t treat your transaction as a secondary priority. Sunflower Bank’s entire syndications practice is built around the deal sizes, timelines, and relationship expectations of middle market borrowers and their private equity sponsors.
  • ​​​Regional Relationships, National Reach
    Headquartered in Dallas with active commercial presence in Albuquerque, Austin, Denver, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, and Phoenix, our bankers understand the industries that drive these regional economies while maintaining national syndication distribution capabilities.
  • Dedicated Decision-Making
    At Sunflower Bank, credit decisions are made by bankers with real regional context, moving at the pace your transaction demands.
  • Full Lifecycle Capability
    From initial structuring and underwriting through to syndication, closing, and ongoing administrative agency, Sunflower Bank manages the entire process. The same team from term sheet to maturity.
  • Integrated Specialty Platform
    Our Loan Syndications & Capital Markets group partners directly with Sunflower Bank’s Asset Based Lending, Alternative Credit Finance, Healthcare Lending, and Technology teams, a fully integrated specialty financing ecosystem.
  • ​BauerFinancial 5-Star Rated
    Sunflower Bank holds a BauerFinancial 5-Star Superior bank rating, an independent designation that signals institutional financial strength to borrowers, PE sponsors, and co-lenders evaluating a syndication partner.

Industries We Serve

Our syndications team brings sector knowledge across the industries that define the middle market economy, working alongside Sunflower Bank’s dedicated industry-focused groups.

How the Syndicated Loan Process Works

A well-executed syndication follows a disciplined, four-stage process. Here is what to expect when you partner with Sunflower Bank as your lead arranger.

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    Consultation and Structuring

    We assess your capital need, timeline, and business profile, then propose a facility structure sized appropriately for your leverage capacity and collateral base.

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    Underwriting and Market Pitch

    Sunflower Bank underwrites the transaction and acts as the lead arranger, pitching the deal to our network of banking partners and institutional investors to build the lender syndicate.

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    Syndication and Closing

    We allocate participations among lenders, negotiate final documentation, and manage the closing process to reach a timely, efficient close.

  • Ongoing Agency and Administration

    Post-close, Sunflower Bank serves as administrative agent, handling borrowing notices, covenant compliance, amendments, and lender reporting for the life of the facility.

  • Loan syndication is the process by which a lead arranger bank organizes a group of lenders to collectively fund a large credit facility for a borrower. The lead arranger structures the deal, underwrites it, and distributes participations to partner banks and institutional investors, allowing borrowers to access larger pools of capital than any single lender can provide alone. 

  • A lead arranger bank structures the credit facility, underwrites the transaction, and manages the full syndication process, pitching the deal to partner banks and institutional investors, allocating participations, and coordinating the closing. After closing, the lead arranger typically continues as administrative agent, handling day to day loan administration for both the borrower and the lender group. 

  • Sunflower Bank specializes in the middle market and lower middle market, serving publicly and privately held companies and private equity backed businesses. Syndicated facilities are typically pursued when a company’s financing requirements exceed a single bank’s hold size. 

  • Large national banks are structured around transactions sized in the billions, middle market companies frequently find themselves under resourced and slower to close to those institutions. Sunflower Bank is built specifically for the middle market: dedicated senior bankers with regional expertise, and the same team supporting your transaction from initial structuring through ongoing agency administration. 

Let's structure your next phase of growth.

Whether you’re planning an acquisition, recapitalization, or growth facility, Sunflower Bank’s syndications team is ready to structure a solution for your needs.


  • Kaitlin Brashear

    Director of Loan Syndications & Capital Markets

    Loan Syndications & Capital Markets

Benefits Checklist

  • Middle market expertise nationwide
  • Lead arranger, underwriting, and administrative agent services
  • Cash flow and asset based syndication structures
  • BauerFinancial 5-Star rated institutional partner

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