Investment Banking

 

The Financing Group originates and executes all financing initiatives within Goldman Sachs.

Within a dynamic, market-driven environment, our teams work closely with corporate clients, pension funds, financial sponsors and governments to structure and execute some of the largest and most complex financing and risk management transactions.

Our aim is to provide our clients with the best and most innovative financing and risk management solutions across the full product spectrum, including equity, debt and derivatives. To achieve this goal, the Financing Group comprises all Goldman Sachs' capital markets departments, and operates in close cooperation with other areas of Investment Banking and other divisions within the firm, including Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities and Equities.

The Financing Group is multi-faceted and offers expertise in the following areas:

Equity Capital Markets

Equity Capital Markets is part of the larger investment banking division. It is responsible for raising or selling equity in primary and secondary markets. This team provides client support during the origination, execution and after-market phases of equity transactions.

Liabilities

We partner with our clients to pick the ideal liabilities-driven investment strategy based on their unique liability streams, current funded status, risk tolerance and return objectives.

Structured Finance

The Structured Finance Group is an integrated advisory and financing team. They focus on the infrastructure asset class and other structured finance opportunities, including asset securitization, collateralized debt obligations and callable bonds. Structured finance solutions are tailor-made to borrowers’ needs and typically involve complex legal and corporate entities.

Pensions

We advise corporations and their pension funds on defined benefit obligations. Advisory services include an evaluation of liabilities and assets, and insight into how these could impact fund solvency and the corporation’s accounts.

Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities and Equity Derivatives

The group focuses on structuring risk management solutions through the use of derivatives for corporations and sovereigns to help mitigate interest rate and foreign exchange risks. Subdivided into regional teams, the group typically structures derivatives in context of pre-hedging acquisitions, debt and asset restructuring.

Equity Derivatives

The team specializes in strategic transactions that focus on equity derivative instruments. Pricing derivative instruments, interacting with traders and working with the Investment Banking division and the firm’s trading desks assist the group in its day-to-day functioning.

Leveraged Finance

Leveraged Finance is a specialized advisory group that uses debt financing to structure the acquisition or recapitalization of companies or business units. To generate an appropriate capital structure, the group uses leveraged loans, high-yield bonds or a combination of both to enable companies to meet their balance sheet objectives.

Syndicate

Investment Grade, High-Yield and Bank Loan Syndicate teams originate, structure and execute debt and debt related financing, along with liability-based risk management strategies. Using a mix of fixed income securities across a range of credit gradings, teams advise multinational corporations, financial sponsors and government sponsored agencies and sovereigns.