Structured finance, a worldwide leader

At the crossroads of lending and capital markets, Structured Finance designs financings for clients on a worldwide level. Structured Finance manages the full spectrum from origination, structuring and underwriting to distribution on the loan syndications markets.

We provide a wide array of products from short term trade loans to medium and long term facilities, from corporate lending to sophisticated financial solutions, on a global basis.

• Energy & Commodity Finance offers financing services covering all commodities and answering all needs from exploration to production, logistics and transformation.
  


• Asset Finance offers a wide range of fixed asset-based financing solutions (Real Estate, Transportation and Export Finance) and develops innovative leasing structures.


• Leveraged and Project Finance provides long-term cash flow-based financings of greenfield projects, refinancings and restructurings, leveraged buy-outs as well as dedicated financing solutions for media and telecommunication companies.


• Corporate Acquisition Finance arranges and underwrites long term facilities intended to finance strategic acquisitions by large corporate clients of BNP Paribas.
  
  
• Loan Syndications and Trading

• A global organization supporting all lending activities and financing businesses;


• Prices and distributes, to banks and institutional investors, syndicated senior debt and mezzanine financings;


• Insurance group provides political and credit risk coverage to financing businesses by resorting to the private insurance market.

Structured Finance has a global presence in over 30 countries with over 1,600 staff worldwide.

http://cib.bnpparibas.com

In Japan
The Structured Finance Department provides services such as M&A-related financing and syndicated loan arrangement in order to meet the varied financial and balance sheet needs of companies. We devise optimal financing structures through careful analysis of the balance sheet and substantive projections on future cash flows of the acquisition target, as well as provide financing to clients—companies and investment funds alike—to make the acquisition a sound investment.

We have one of the best track records among foreign-affiliated banks in mediating overseas business for global financial solutions, and act as the lead, or co-lead manager on Loan Syndication projects involving major power utilities and oil companies. Our success has not gone unrecognised, having received the Asia-Pacific Loan House Award for fiscal 2008 from IFT magazine.

BNP Paribas has historically maintained close relationships with the natural resource-producing countries, primarily the former French colonies, and places emphasis on businesses related to such energy resources. Over one thousand employees around the world engage in the process of financing emerging markets. Our proprietary global business model and the unsurpassed capability of gathering real-time information on a global scale provide an unrivaled advantage in this area of expertise.

We work with the Japan Bank for International Cooperation and Nippon Export and Investment Insurance to provide services: buyers credit, untied financing, investment financing, which provides needed funds for the acquisition of overseas resources to local companies overseas.

Asset finance is another pillar of our international finance operations with our strong presence in the market for aircraft and ship financing. With our strong global network in the airline and shipping industries, together with our structured leasing capabilities, we have been providing optimised solutions to our clients including the tax lease based financing in addition to a normal mortgage financing.