Our Capabilities

NAC’s corporate finance advisory team brings together the benefits of a combined 70 years and over €100 billion in financing experience among senior management at NAC. This experience crosses a wide variety of industry sectors, businesses at various stages of development, financing structures and jurisdictions.

Our recent experience includes raising debt and equity capital for a specilist start-up retail business where we enhanced returns by using the UK Government’s Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) as well as a custom designed supplier financing structure which saved the client significant financing fees, advising an alpine property owner / operator on the sale of its business which involved targeting a wide range of potential buyers across the world and advising a global investment bank on the structure and terms for an equity and debt investment into an emerging markets financial services business.  In addition, NAC has recently been active on numerous corporate balance sheet restructurings and has advised on the sale and purchase of debt portfolios exceeding €2 billion in value.  The diversity of these engagements in terms of scope and sector provide an indication of our ability to apply a set of transaction skills across a range of situations in order to acheive an attractive outcome in each case.

Common requirements for NAC’s corporate finance clients are the need for a sophisticated understanding and analysis of potentially complex cash flows, asset values, growth potential and risk mitigation. We in turn take this further by looking at alternative interpretations of circumstances to find less obvious sources of value, synergies and stragetic opportunities in order to maximise or optimise value for our clients.  In a recent example, this resulted in a restructuring being converted into a sale of the business.

We are an approved Listing Sponsor for initial public offerings on NYSE Euronext’s Alternext exchange and for this purpose have the experience and expertise to guide a company through the preparation and execution of an IPO, as well as its post-IPO reporting and other obligations to the stock exchange and to its investors.  Our team’s credentials (including those acquired prior to joining NAC) includes experience of numerous transactions on the London, Euronext Brussels and other European exchanges. 

Where appropriate, NAC’s funds may propose to participate in financings arranged or advised by the corporate finance team, subject to the due diligence and investment committee approvals that NAC’s funds require in the normal course of business.  In addition, where appropriate and with consent from the client, NAC may introduce transactions to its network of investors.