When a particular client need is identified, the IBS professional assembles the appropriate team of specialists and leads them through strategy development and implementation. The Group, comprised of professionals in New York and London, advises clients and commits capital in conjunction with complex senior banking and high-yield debt financings related to leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, refinancings and other corporate restructurings. The Group is structured as a joint venture between the Investment Banking and Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities Divisions. Mergers and Acquisitions Department - provides strategic advice worldwide regarding acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, recapitalizations, leveraged buyouts and takeover attempts. The merger and acquisition process frequently involves soliciting transactions, analyzing the business dynamics of companies and industries, valuing businesses, determining likely buyers and sellers, and marketing, negotiating and closing transactions.
Professionals work with public and private companies in many industries.
Real Estate Department - provides complex and innovative investment banking services worldwide to the leading real estate companies. Clients include real estate investment trusts, the lodging and gaming industry and a variety of Fortune 500 companies. The Department structures debt and equity financings, executes merger and disposition transactions, provides strategic advisory services, originates commercial mortgages and securitizes portfolios of commercial mortgages. Professionals coordinate the solicitation, structuring, marketing and pricing of equity offerings working closely with investment banking and equity sales, trading and research. Equity Capital Markets is a joint venture between the Investment Banking and Equities Divisions, and is located on our equity trading floors worldwide.