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Keefe, Bruyette & Woods made a highly significant strategic
move when it committed to establishing
a full-service investment bank in Europe, largely mirroring its successful
U.S. platform.
KBW’s European practice is now fully established across research,
sales and trading and investment banking advisory services, with a London-based
staff of over 70 professionals. Our European reach extends to the EU
member states, Northern, Central, and Eastern Europe.
Access to our market-leading U.S. platform provides a network of
industry specialists, enabling global reach and expertise.
The following is a selection of our recent transactions:
Please click here to view all of the selected KBW European transactions.
On a global scale, KBW’s resources are larger than any other specialist
firm, with almost 450 employees focused exclusively on the financial
services sector. This in-depth industry knowledge enables us to be experts
in our field. As such, we are able to provide high quality, original
and objective advice, in addition to creating innovative solutions for
our clients’ business strategies.
Our core services include:
- M&A Advisory
- Equity Capital Markets
- Equity Capital Raising
- IPOs
- Corporate Broking
- Private Equity Advisory
We also have access to various debt capital markets products and services through our New York office.
M&A Advisory
KBW’s European investment banking team has extensive experience in providing
M&A advisory services to financial institutions and a deep understanding
of the factors affecting such transactions. Our 15 advisory professionals, including local advisers in the Benelux region, France and Germany,
focus heavily on maintaining strong client relationships to gain a thorough
understanding of our clients’ business and strategy so that we are able
to tailor advice accordingly and offer the highest level of customer service. This
relationship-based approach complements our significant staff ownership culture,
and, coupled with our commitment to the long term, distinguishes us from
our competitors.
Leveraging our independence and lack of conflicts, our professionals
have a strong track record in both sell-side and buy-side advisory roles. As
an independent firm, we can act for acquirers, target companies, special
board committees or selling shareholders, operating at the heart of any
process, assisting in negotiations, and giving impartial and objective
advice on securing the target asset or company and the value of any offers
being considered.
Equity Capital Markets
Our in-depth industry knowledge gives us insight into how financial
institutions are perceived by institutional investors, enabling us to
offer important advice on the appropriate structure and timing of equity
offerings. Our investment banking personnel have extensive experience
in all forms of equity capital raisings from IPOs through secondary
share sales.
In London, we have 22 research analysts currently covering over 140 pan-European
financial stocks. As a specialist, KBW’s research is predicated
on being differentiated and high quality – the coverage universe extends
across both geographies and the market capitalisation spectrum, providing
unmatched depth of knowledge in the financials’ verticals. This experience
is recognized by the investment community in top rankings in independent surveys.
On the distribution side, our specialist sales team is second to none,
with the largest sales force in London focused exclusively
on one sector, providing influential and targeted daily access to the
financial specialists within the investing institutions. Our 18
sales staff for European equities include 6 based in New York, giving
KBW unparalleled access to U.S. investors who are relevant to European corporates. We
currently service over 300 institutional investors in European financials
across the globe and are extremely active in setting up investor roadshows for corporates
in all major locations.
Our research and sales capabilities enable KBW to offer a powerful distribution
function for European financial sector equities, and our Equity Capital
Markets business has proven itself as a core competency where we can add value to issuers.
Over the last two years KBW has acted in high profile ECM deals raising over €20bn. This
has rapidly established us as a market leader and no.1 co-manager for financials equity
offerings in Europe.
This European equity distribution platform sits alongside extensive research,
sales and trading of U.S. financial stocks in New York, giving KBW a unique
insight into global investor trends and opinions, enabling us to provide
global perspectives, where necessary.
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