About Our Founder
Working across the financial sector for over twenty years, Tom spent much of his time working as a commercial banking/leveraged finance underwriter. He experienced the lack of engagement appetite for sub ~$15 million EBITDA businesses and identified this space as underserved by existing intermediaries – with the belief that the majority of the lower middle market borrowers he encountered should have a path to broader credit markets. It wasn’t that a deal wasn’t there, it was that the larger intermediaries were not motivated by the smaller check sizes and were not suited to guide a lower middle market company through the DCM process. In 2020, Tom launched Ladrigan Management to disrupt the lower middle market debt advisory space and utilize his fundamental credit skills to arrange credit for sponsors and owners that run lean and would much rather be doing something else.
Born and raised in Bergen County, NJ, Tom lives in Glen Rock, NJ with his wife Anna and two boys, Thomas and Henry. He enjoys coaching and chauffeuring his young boys to various commitments, trips to the Jersey Shore, the New York Football Giants, eating his daily bagel across the street from his office at the best bagel store in the tri state area George’s Hot Bagels and domestic and international travel. Favorite trips: organized a whirlwind World War 1 battlefield tour with 3 of his childhood friends, parked on the infield at Talladega Superspeedway despite being a NASCAR newbie, drove across the USA with Anna stopping at quirky restaurants seen on food TV shows.
Ladrigan Ethos
Ladrigan was founded to address a gap in the debt advisory market—The lower middle market is underserved by existing debt advisory options that overcharge for less than adequate service. We are a trusted partner throughout the credit lifecycle to allow firms to focus on investments and provide immediate value. Ladrigan is not a spray and pray, cut and paste DCM advisory that overcharges for poor execution. We do not identify as a mechanical information conduit where deal related data is cut and pasted by a junior banker and forwarded.
