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Financing sources & instruments · Working

Mezzanine finance

ELI5

Higher-risk finance positioned between senior debt and equity in repayment or risk.

Used in conversation

“We need to agree mezzanine finance before anyone commits the cost.”

Pitch context

You may encounter “Mezzanine finance” in rights, contracts, finance, distribution & labour conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Explains who controls, pays for, approves, exploits or bears risk around a project.

Caution

Meaning and consequences may change by contract, collective agreement, territory or law. This entry is orientation, not legal advice.

Sources & evidence · 8

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.