Private Placement

Our Private Placement team has the insights and relationships to deliver world-class private funding.

Our debt and equity expertise provides our clients with access to high-quality private and strategic investors which raises our clients' profiles within the institutional investment community.

The Private Placement Group has one of the most effective distribution platforms in the industry. This broad distribution structure creates better pricing, promotes rapid completion of transactions and results in many of our clients using our expertise for follow-on financings or advisory work.

The Leader in Private Placements

The Private Placement Group is in a unique position to leverage the bank's resources and match companies' financing objectives with the best investors. We offer corporate finance-driven solutions complimented by the most unique marketing approach in the industry, as demonstrated by the following qualities of the group:

Superior Capability:

Consistently ranked as one of the leading firms in private placements (1)

Execution Focus:

Closed over $20 billion in traditional private financings for over 250 deals since 1997, placing an array of securities ranging from common stock to investment grade debt

Effective Distribution Structure:

Relationships with hedge funds, LBO funds, private equity funds, mezzanine funds, insurance companies, bank proprietary trading desks, pensions funds, strategic investors and family offices

Current Market Knowledge:

In the market every day, structuring, marketing and negotiating deals - we can provide updated market intelligence to achieve the best transaction for clients

Experienced Professionals:

We have a dedicated group of professionals in multiple cities focusing exclusively on private placements

  • (1) Source: Thompson Financial Securities Data

Our Private Placement Products

Capital Structures

We structure complex transactions across the capital spectrum . We customize solutions for our clients to minimize dilution and optimize their capital structure. Often these solutions involve a hybrid of debt and equity.

Stage of Clients

We have significant experience in raising capital for companies in the following growth stages:

  • Late-stage private companies
  • Public entities
  • Corporate spin-offs
  • Acquisition financing

Industry Groups of Focus

The Private Placement Group has extensive experience in providing financing solutions for companies in several different industry groups including:

  • Consumer / Retail
  • Energy
  • Financial Services
  • Healthcare
  • Industrial
  • Real Estate
  • Telecom / Media
  • Technology

Private Placement Process

We facilitate this placement process for our clients. Through our unique distribution capabilities, we target a focused group of investors and organize meetings to maximize the effectiveness of management's time. An orchestrated process increases the momentum of the transaction, thereby increasing the competitiveness of the transaction.

Senior Officers

The Private Placement Group works closely in conjunction with industry-focused bankers. The Private Placement Group's senior bankers collectively have more than 60 years of direct private placement experience.