SECURITIES & CORPORATE FINANCE
We have expertise in capital markets, handling primary and secondary offerings covering many different industry sectors where we act for issuers, underwriters and managers. We have experience in providing advice and assistance on rights issues, initial public offerings, issues of convertible and exchangeable securities, equity-derivatives, placings, hedging and stabilization of equity and equity-related products. Much of our advisory work includes transactions that involve simultaneous offerings and listing of securities in a number of jurisdictions including Pakistan and the United Kingdom. Our experience enables us to advise our clients on the increasingly complex financial law and regulation relating to cross-border offers.
We provide specialized advice on:
- rights issues
- equity derivatives
- bond issues, from plain vanilla to highly structured products
- sovereign debt
- placings
- initial public offerings
- convertible and exchangeable securities
- hedging and stabilization of equity and equity related products.
Many of our transactions involve listing of multiple stock exchanges in different jurisdictions including stock exchanges in Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad and in London.
We are appropriately qualified and experienced in what we do. Our financing expertise includes:
- acquisition and leveraged financing, including senior, mezzanine and subordinated debt and high yield bonds
- equity derivatives
- derivatives of various types and forms, including interest rate, currency, credit, equity, commodity, insurance and other swaps and options, repos and stock lending
- leasing and asset finance
- loan finance of all kinds, including corporate and sovereign
- project finance in a variety of sectors
- securitizations, including synthetic securitization, of many types of assets
- structures products, including arrangements designed to meet specific regulatory objectives.