Investment banking

Our mergers and acquisitions team maintains a close dialogue with our country and industry coverage bankers in developing creative ideas and solutions for their clients. This ensures that we allocate appropriate country specialist and industry knowledge to each client assignment. The M&A team typically focuses on providing both strategic advisory and execution expertise around the acquisition or divestment of company assets. The country coverage groups focus on specific countries within a region. The industry groups provide specialised knowledge and coverage of specific industry sectors.

The global finance group is responsible for all financing and risk management products and includes the following areas:

Debt Capital Markets
The debt capital markets (DCM) team helps our clients access the global fixed income markets and raise money for acquisitions, capital expenditures or other general business purposes.

Equity Capital Markets
The equity capital markets (ECM) team helps clients raise financing for acquisitions, capital expenditures or other general business purposes through the issuance of equity (stock) or equity-linked products (e.g. convertibles).

Acquisition Finance
The acquisition finance group provides comprehensive financing solutions for clients rated as less-than-investment grade by the major ratings agencies. It provides high yield bond, leveraged loan, bridge financing and mezzanine debt products.

Risk Solutions Group
The Risk Solutions Group offers to our clients an integrated and comprehensive fixed income solutions platform. We provide strategic risk management capabilities across a range of products including currency, interest rates, credit, commodities and inflation.