STRUCTURED FINANCE
Structured Finance has become an increasingly important tool in today's financial markets.
With the credit crisis and ensuing economic downturn, however, conventional finance’s winning streak had come to an end. Deal volumes have fallen dramatically, revenue growth rates that once topped 50 percent per year have plunged, and risk provisions have soared.“
Over the past several years, the rise of structured finance—the business of accessing capital through capital market investments to build power plants, airports, roads, ships, and other expensive assets; to finance trade flows; and to acquire companies—has mirrored the global economic expansion. Indeed, it is the allocation of capital by structured finance that in a very real sense makes economic expansion possible.
Structured financing operations have spanned into a wide array of instruments: leveraged buyouts, management buy-outs, restructuring, industrial projects, infrastructure projects; restructure secured debt; term loans, operating loans and asset-based secured lending. The concepts and strategies have been limited to High Net Worth corporations and although accessible to mid to large-scale transactions in the emergent market, there are few that have knowledge to these opportunities.
For well over a decade, Morgan Stearns Corporation has made it possible for companies in emergent markets to seize the opportunity through Structured Finance. In summary, with the use of structured finance, many companies are given an opportunity for new life that would not have been possible otherwise.
Emerging Markets & Sustainable Development
Emerging Markets and Sustainable development division was formed in response to a soaring demand for Structured Finance in emerging countries, particularly in areas related to urbanisation, water, climate change and social issues.
The existing involvement of our financing teams and the considerable presence of the bank's international network in these countries give us the opportunity to harness the strengths of the Group to tackle this demand.
Infrastructure & Asset Based
We offer a broad range of products to our clients, whether corporate or public, including capital-raising, risk management and advisory services in:
• Project finance
• Public Private Partnerships (PPPs)
• Asset finance: asset-backed finance, tax leases, operating leases and export leases
Based on asset and sector expertise as well as structuring skills in tax, regulatory compliance and accounting areas, the team offers tailor-made solutions in dedicated sectors such as:
• Transportation: ground (subways and buses), road, logistics and support services
• Public services: health, education, public infrastructure, defence and custodial
• Environment: water, waste, wind farms and solar
Transaction and Debt Advisory
Our objective is to deliver solutions to Corporate clients and Financial Institutions on both the assets and liabilities sides, with added value coming from tax or other coefficients.
We have developed a number of technologies which can be used in a wide variety of situations from the optimization of cross-border structures and the enhancement of some of Global Finance’s offers in Leasing or Project Finance to the setting up of attractive investment structures.
Natural Resources & Energy Finance
Harnessing our sectoral expertise, we provide a full range of finance and advisory services for producers, traders, processors and end-users of energy, metals and soft commodities through three key platforms:
• Energy Group
• Metals & Mining Finance
• Traders, Commodity Finance & Agribusiness
Natural Resources & Energy Finance works in an integrated manner with the Commodity Markets activities for hedging and investor solutions to provide a global offer in commodities.