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.

- 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.

- 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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Banking on Nature: Financing Ecosystem Restoration Across the US
As climate pressures intensify, environmental infrastructure and mitigation banking emerge as important enablers to...

Clients' successes

As climate pressures intensify, environmental infrastructure and mitigation banking emerge as important enablers to protect and preserve biodiversity. Societe Generale’s participation in Naturion’s financing highlights how mitigation banking can help channel capital toward nature-based solutions with measurable environmental impact.

Banking on Nature: Financing Ecosystem Restoration Across the US

Supporting the efficiency and reliability of global air freight
Societe Generale acted as Sole Mandated Lead Arranger, Facility Agent and Security Trustee in structuring a financing...

Clients' successes

Societe Generale acted as Sole Mandated Lead Arranger, Facility Agent and Security Trustee in structuring a financing solution to support MSC Air Cargo’s acquisition of two Boeing 777 freighter aircraft (B777F).

Supporting the efficiency and reliability of global air freight

Building Momentum in UK Carbon Capture
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is playing an increasingly important role in supporting industrial transformation,...

Clients' successes

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is playing an increasingly important role in supporting industrial transformation, enabling hard-to-abate sectors to reduce emissions while maintaining operational output.

Building Momentum in UK Carbon Capture

Driving the expansion of EV charging infrastructure in the UK
Societe Generale acted as Arranger in InstaVolt’s £250 million debt facility, supporting one of the largest...

Clients' successes

Societe Generale acted as Arranger in InstaVolt’s £250 million debt facility, supporting one of the largest owner‑operators of rapid public chargers in the UK in the continued rollout of its EV charging platform.

Driving the expansion of EV charging infrastructure in the UK

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