Corporate Finance offers advisory services for mergers and acquisitions and primary equity market transactions. The M&A teams advise both buyers and targets and also offer advice on other strategic financial issues, such as privatisations. Primary market services include flotations, equity issues, secondary issue placements, and convertible/exchangeable bond issues.

Corporate Finance has adopted a matrix organisation designed to give clients access to the best combination of specialists in each product, industry and geographical area, while optimising resource management.

Corporate Finance employs some 400 professionals located throughout its worldwide network. Focused first and foremost on Europe, it is also present in North and South America and enjoys strong visibility in Asia and the emerging countries.

Corporate Finance

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In the United States

Corporate Finance/M&A focuses principally on cross-border M&A transactions between North America and Europe as well as Latin America and Asia. The group provides creative thinking and strategic and transactional advice to public and private companies, financial sponsor groups and governments.

Corporate Finance specializes in providing a broad range of cross-border merger, acquisition and divestiture financing recommendations to strategic and financial buyers and sellers. The group targets the following main client bases:

• U.S. companies pursuing acquisitions in Europe as well as Asia and Latin America
• European corporate buyers of strategic businesses located or headquartered in the U.S.

The group also provides advisory services in connection with corporate restructuring and financings, and helps identify sources of debt and equity in conjunction with M&A transactions The M&A Americas group brings a full range of financial advisory services for:

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Sales and Divestitures
• Cross-border Transactions
• Strategic Advisory

The group's approach is to work closely with clients to develop tailor-made processes to best meet client needs. Each transaction is led by a senior transaction expert.