TSL Express Daily News

Dallas, TX – February 14, 2022 – BankFinancial announced today the establishment of a Convertible Accounts Receivable Financing/ABL Credit Facility to a Minnesota based leader in metal fabrication, sheet metal and stamping serving global industrial, agricultural, and commercial equipment customers. The recapitalization with extended availability allows the Client to scale production and add capacity to meet growing demand.

With a strategic focus to grow into new markets, the Client reached out to Marabek to help with corporate development and financing. Marabek is a firm that specializes in corporate advisory as well as mergers and acquisitions with extensive experience growing businesses in a healthy, metric-driven, and sustainable way. Marabek’s partnership with BankFinancial facilitated the introduction and collaboration of the credit facility.

"We are thrilled to have them as a new client," said Lindsay Gordon, SVP Commercial Finance at BankFinancial. "Our Client’s vertically integrated expansion goals and forward thinking represents a new horizon for the metal fabrication and stamping industry. As a trusted industry leader in financial services for mid-sized businesses, BankFinancial is excited to support their growth and finance their capital needs. We are committed to helping our customers achieve their goals and see a brighter future.”

“Our partnership with BankFinancial is a game changer,” said the Client’s President and Chief Financial Officer. “This will enable us to expand our business in ways we couldn’t before. Their innovative solution to our working capital and commercial real estate financing needs allow us to better serve our customers and capitalize on the unique business environment, fostering an even stronger foundation for our future. We’re thankful for BankFinancial and for Marabek for collaborating with us in this journey.”

“We can offer a lot of great connections within the financial and manufacturing sectors globally and knew the partnership with BankFinancial would be a great match,” said Jessica Marshall, Partner at Marabek. “We’re excited to see two great companies partner together and achieve great things.”

ABOUT BANKFINANCIAL

BankFinancial Commercial Finance specializes in asset-based lending, accounts receivable financing and banking services for manufacturers, distributors, personnel services, information technology providers, and other businesses on a national basis. BankFinancial NA and its partners also provide equipment leasing, commercial real estate loans, treasury management, and general banking services to its Commercial Finance clients. BankFinancial NA is the national bank subsidiary of BankFinancial Corporation (NASDAQ: BFIN).

For more information visit BankFinancial.com or connect with us on LinkedIn.

ABOUT MARABEK

Marabek is a strategic advisory in addition to a mergers and acquisitions firm working with public and privately held manufacturing companies based in Canada, China, India, Germany, Mexico and the United States. Using a proven metric driven approach, they work to strengthen the performance of client’s existing organic business, with focus to improve finance, operations, organizational development, IT, global supply chain, marketing, and business development strategies. Marabek’s international team also helps clients grow inorganically through value-oriented expansion and acquisitions. Additionally, they offer seasoned executives to support the company’s leadership initiatives or fill operational gaps with varied timeframes.

The organization partners with corporate executives, private equity, institutional investors/funds as well as family-owned enterprises to facilitate sustainable growth and increase enterprise value, seeking to free untapped and hidden opportunities for our clients to achieve their vision and secure their future.