Global Financing Solutions
The world’s leading independent provider of financing solutions.
We help our clients to design their optimum capital structure, access all relevant financing markets and achieve the best possible terms.
We do this by drawing on our global reach, deep experience, integrated sector expertise and long-term relationships with local and international banks, funds 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.
financing and restructuring assignments in the last five years
raised in the last 5 years
specialist professionals
Achieving the best financing solutions
We provide strategic advice, structuring and placement services to help our clients achieve the optimum transaction structures and terms.
Our teams around the world have detailed knowledge and insight across the debt markets including bank, bond, private placement, institutional loan, credit fund, hybrid capital and specialist lending markets.
Our scale, coverage model and transaction volumes ensure we are in constant dialogue with banks, debt investors, ratings agencies and broader market participants. This allows us to maintain strong relationships and top-level access to all major providers of debt and hybrid capital.
Full-spectrum capital access
Our independence means we are free to consider all debt structures and capital providers without conflict or preference. Our objectives are fully aligned with those of our clients.
Within Global Financing Solutions we have specialist teams focusing on corporate debt, leveraged finance, structured finance, infrastructure, real estate, energy & power, sovereign debt, hedging and derivatives.
Our teams work closely with the equity professionals in our Global Markets Solutions business and with our market-leading sector teams. This enables us to provide a fully integrated offering across the capital structure, combining advisory, structuring and placing all forms of capital, supported by deep sector insight and high-quality research.
Specialist Global Financing Solutions services
Ratings Advisory
We provide ratings advisory to our clients both as part of our financing and M&A offerings and as a standalone service.
Experienced in advising clients across all sectors and regions on inaugural ratings’ processes. Our teams 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 risk-hedging purposes, including swaps, options and any other contract.
Our advisory is tailor-made, aligned with our client’s business and can be part of our financing and M&A offering, or as a standalone service.
Sovereign Advisory
We assist sovereigns in determining government financing needs and design and implement appropriate tailored financing strategies. We have advised several governments through global financial crises on issues ranging from restructuring national industries to economic support schemes and privatisations.
Islamic finance
We have been supporting issuers over the past decade in structuring their debt instruments in a Shariah-compliant manner. To achieve the best results, we use our reach to explore the different pools of Islamic liquidity available around the world.
Highlight transactions
2025
Wireless Logic
£1.3bn-equiv. unitranche refinancing
£1.3bn
2026
HongShan Capital Group
€1.1bn debt package to support its acquisition of Golden Goose
€1.1bn
2025
Coca-Cola Consolidated
US$2.4bn repurchase of all outstanding shares owned by The Coca-Cola Company
US$2.4bn
2025
Chemist Warehouse Group
US$5.8bn merger with Sigma Healthcare
US$5.8bn
2025
Ceva Animal Health
€9.2bn renewal of its shareholding structure and €1.5bn debt financing package
€9.2bn
2025
Cenomi Centers
c.US$547m covenant reset and inaugural Sukuk issuance
c.US$547m
2026
Eutelsat
€1.5bn HY bond issue concluding its €5bn+ financing strategy
€1.5bn
2025
Flutter
US$5.6bn hedging advice on derivatives
US$5.6bn
2025
Sizewell C
£38bn+ Equity and Debt raise for the Sizewell C new 3.2GW nuclear build project
£38bn+
2025
Airport Authority Hong Kong
US$7bn equivalent multi-currency bond issuance
US$7bn
2026
Hines European Core Fund
€500m 5-year 3.750% green bond issuance
€500m
Restructuring & Liability Management
Successful outcomes for even the most complex restructurings and LMEs.
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