Debt Advisory
Helping clients to optimise their finances by obtaining the best sources of debt and achieving the best transaction structures and terms.
Debt Advisory and Restructuring
The world’s leading independent debt and restructuring adviser
We help our clients to access financial markets and gain the best possible terms.
We achieve this by drawing on our global reach, experience and long-term relationships with local and international banks and other financial institutions.
We advise on an unrivalled volume of financing transactions in our core markets, greater than any single financing counterparty. Our track record includes many of the world's most complex and transformational assignments.
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USD 1.100 bn
200 +
Restructuring
Helping clients to strategize and execute complex restructuring plans
Achieving the best financing solutions
We help our clients to raise capital, carry out refinancings, issue bonds, and access alternative and structured finance solutions that optimise terms and minimise risk.
Our Debt Advisory teams have detailed knowledge and insight across the debt markets including corporate debt, leveraged finance, structured finance, real estate finance and capital markets.
Our scale and transaction volumes keep us in constant dialogue with banks, investors, and ratings agencies, meaning we are best placed to support our client’s objectives in the market.
As an independent adviser, we consider all debt options and capital providers - we have no conflicts of interest or preference of providers and therefore our objectives are fully aligned with those of our clients.
We have 150+ professionals with market-leading experience, completing 200+ transactions annually, with many long-standing relationships and high repeat business.
Our teams work closely with our M&A advisers, leveraging their sector insight. This scale and integration allow the unique access to the full spectrum of capital providers.
Specialist Debt Advisory services
Ratings Advisory
We provide ratings advisory to our clients as part of our financing and M&A offerings or as a standalone service.
We are experienced in advising clients across all sectors and regions on inaugural ratings processes. Our teams can also provide support to our clients as part of their ongoing dialogue with rating agencies.
Derivatives and Hedging
We advise clients across all sectors and regions on fixed income and commodities-linked derivatives contracts for hedging purposes, including swaps, options and any other contract, with the aim of minimising overall market risk exposure.
Our advisory is always tailor-made, aligned with our client’s business and can be part of our financing and M&A offering, or as a standalone service.
ESG ratings and financing
We assist our clients with their ESG strategy in the context of their financing activities. We advise on ESG ratings, whether solicited or unsolicited, inaugural or ongoing, and on the structuring of sustainable frameworks & key terms related to sustainable financings.
Sovereign debt
We assist sovereigns in determining government financing needs and design and implement appropriate tailored financing strategies. We have advised several governments through the world financial crisis on issues from restructuring national industries to economic support schemes and privatisations.
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Islamic finance
We have been supporting issuers over the past decade in structuring their debt instruments in a Shariah compliant manner. To ensure we get the best results, we utilise our global reach to explore the different pools of Islamic liquidity available around the world.
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