Equity & Debt Capital Markets
Our Equity & Debt Capital Markets team provides a broad range of expertise on Pre-IPO placements, IPO’s, “IPO lights,” special situations, block trades, accelerated bookbuild transactions, capital increases/reductions including rights issues, private placements, share buyback programs and convertible loans/bonds. Close Brothers Seydler Bank AG works closely to guide companies through the transaction process, advising on optimal financing strategies that suit client needs from planning to execution and post-deal follow up. In this respect, we also collaborate with our institutional sales team during the transaction process.
Our service to customers:
- Support companies execute primary market transactions by managing structure, syndication, marketing and distribution of transactions
- Advise on key aspects of equity capital raising with regards to structure, size and timing
- Provide advice in relation to the optimisation of clients’ capital management, financing and risk management requirements, through the implementation of appropriate transaction structures.

As a qualified Deutsche Börse Entry Standard Listing Partner, we engage as a capital market coach to advise our clients on publishing the required information at the right time to investors and ensuring that clients adhere to follow-up obligations of the FWB® Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
Capital Markets Team - Highlights:
- Strong placement power in Germany, Switzerland, Frankreich, Großbritannien and Benelux
- Focus on companies with market capitalisations of between € 30 and € 250 mn or an exceptional Equity Story
- Intelligent co-operation with sector specialists in the Research Team
- Experienced capital markets specialists with excellent track records in the process chain
Authored Essays:
Companies are seeing themselves confronted with more restrictive lending by banks since the onset of the financial crisis in the fall of 2008. Credit rating requirements became more stringent while credit lines granted were either frozen or reduced.
