The Banca Finnat Team of professionals boasts significant experience in the financial advisory sector. The team is made up of professionals who have gained important professional expertise and experience at leading Italian and international financial institutions. The team has developed a method of carrying out their commitments which, thanks to their wide ranging skills and co-ordination abilities, enables them to integrate complementary know-how and flexibly adapt to the specifics of each individual transaction. The operating methods developed by the team members when carrying out their assigned tasks guarantee the performance of the advisory and analysis activities with due accountability and efficiency, ensuring the achievement of the objectives set by the customer. Within the sphere of the advisory services, the team is thus in a position to offer Banca Finnat customers complete and integrated professional support for creating value, by means of its:
- consolidated experience
- stable and reliable relationship together with a first-rate image and reputation
- recognised financial and business expertise and a rapid, effective and efficient decision-making process
- extensive network of contacts and experience, and developmental co-operation and support
- availability to access financial resources
CORPORATE FINANCE
The Banca Finnat SpA Advisory & Corporate Finance team provides businesses with advice in the corporate finance sector and assistance during extraordinary finance transactions.
Through this specific Division, the bank provides its customers with assistance with regard to the main corporate finance problems, such as:
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Mergers & Acquisitions and privatisations:
Appraisals and financial, procedural and contractual advice for extraordinary finance transactions such as mergers, spin-offs, acquisitions and disposals. This service comprises assistance for directly state-owned companies and public bodies in privatisation transactions.
- Stock Market listing and IPOs:
Advice for Stock Market listing operations in the capacity of sponsor, listing partner and Nomad (for the AIM Italia-Mac market). This service includes assistance in all market listing-related activities: presentation of documentation to the authorities and ensuring related requirements have been observed; organisation of meetings with Italian and foreign investors; appraisal of the business in order to define the offer price range; market disclosure of the essential data concerning the company after listing. Within this sphere, the Bank - together with the competent units - can also carry out Global Coordinator activities.
- Appraisals of companies and/or individual business segments:
Specialist advice for establishing the theoretical current value of companies and/or business segments; this service also includes the issuing of fairness opinions and the calculation of share swap ratios. The appraisal work programme includes the accomplishment of all procedures necessary for establishing the general value of the company’s economic capital via use of method-based principles concurrent with legal theory and professional practice.
- Structured Finance:
Analysis, organisation and participation in structured finance transactions for the purpose of developing activities (minibonds, LBO, acquisition financing, securitization, convertible bond issues, m/l-term funding, leasing & factoring).
- Industrial and financial restructuring transactions:
Advice for industrial restructuring transactions aimed at - also via M&A - strategic and competitive re-positioning with a view to creating new value for shareholders. Advice for financial restructuring transactions aimed at restoring a balanced financial set up (optimisation of the debt/equity ratio, identification of the most suitable financial instruments in relation to business activities) as well as improving relations with the banking system and the related credit standing.
- Project Financing:
Analysis of the economic-financial sustainability of the project, identification of financial resources, organisation and participation in project financing transactions.
- Financial and Strategic advice:
Analysis of the financial impact of strategic business choices, study of competitive positioning, search for industrial and financial partners, study of development/diversification/relinquishment alternatives. Advice regarding risk capital and/or debt capital and corporate reorganisation transactions, with the aim of pin-pointing a first-rate ratio between debt and equity.