2nd Annual Financing Leveraged Buyouts Conference - Sponsors
Over the last five years, The Royal Bank of Scotland has won recognition and respect as one of the largest and fastest growing banking groups in the world and one of the most compelling banking stories of the decade. In leveraged finance we are a leading provider of total debt solutions for all aspects of leveraged finance in Europe and beyond.
Our involvement in such ground breaking deals as NCP, Seat Pagine Gialle, Homebase (all recognised by Private Equity International as amongst the top 30 most influential private equity deals ever), TDC (the largest ever European LBO) and Gala (the largest ever sterling LBO and sterling Mezzanine tranche ever brought to market) have helped to cement our position and reputation as the number one bank in European Leveraged Finance.
RBS’ leadership in leveraged finance has been enhanced by our strong position in the new corporate leveraged and infrastructure niches. Successful executions for challenging transactions like Eutelsat (IFR’s Leveraged Loan of the Year in 2005), Metrovacesa, Spohn Cement, NTL, Associated British Ports and Ferrovial’s acquisition of BAA demonstrate that RBS is the top arranger in these important segments.
Our Leveraged Finance Group was started 12 years ago with a staff of three and now has over 200 deal professionals dedicated to it in 10 offices covering all the key financial centres around the globe. To date, we have been at the forefront of the evolution of the leveraged finance business and intend to maintain that role far into the future.
RBS’ Loan Markets team, the syndicate and distribution team for all leveraged loans, has more than doubled in size over the past three years and now encompasses over 100 market professionals in seven offices around the world, providing real-time knowledge of local market conditions and ready access to a diverse and growing pool of loan investors. Our increasing focus on loan trading and its derivatives will ensure that we continue to lead the market in innovative loan distribution techniques for the benefit of our issuer and investor clients.
We combine experience and commitment to our issuer and investor client base with innovation to ensure we continue to provide an all encompassing ‘soup to nuts’ leveraged finance service that is second to none.
Recent accolades received by RBS include being named the Financial News Leveraged Finance House of the Decade, Private Equity International’s Best Debt Provider in Europe 2005 and Acquisitions Monthly and EVCJ’s Mezzanine Arranger and Debt Provider of the Year 2005.
In 2005, RBS was also named European Loan House of the Year by IFR and Most Impressive Arranger, Best Arranger of LBO Financing and Best Arranger of Acquisition Financing by EuroWeek.
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