Leveraged Finance

Societe Generale's Leveraged Finance offering provides you with innovative and integrated financing solutions to meet your objectives in multiple areas of expertise. It consists of originating, structuring, and executing Leveraged Buy-Out (LBO) financing transactions supported by private equity funds. It covers both leveraged loans and high-yield bonds.

We provide our financial sponsors and corporate clients with innovative and integrated financing solutions to achieve their objectives, across multiple areas of expertise.

- Leveraged Buy-Outs (LBOs)
Supporting our financial sponsor clients, we structure and deliver LBO financing, in all sectors. We are present in the main European markets (Paris, London, Frankfurt, Madrid) and in the US.

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Corporate Leveraged Finance
Our expertise focuses on corporate leveraged loan and high yield offering and targets leveraged companies where there is visibility for short to medium-term high yield issuance.

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High Yield capital markets
Working together with
Debt Capital Markets teams, we propose an advisory approach to upscale our high yield offering, with high yield platforms based in Paris, London and New York, covering both European and US markets.
 

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