Strategic and Acquisition Finance

A global debt & advisory house

From strategic options to financing recommendations, we accompany our clients through their strategic moves, thanks to key capabilities in debt finance and capital structure advisory:
- acquisitions
- demergers
- refinancing
- restructuring

We can integrate every aspect of strategic or acquisition finance, as well as of external growth strategies through the entire lifecycle of a transaction, whether in a local or cross-border context. Our strategic or acquisition finance activities include:
- structuring and executing;
- strategic analysis in relation to financing;
- optimisation of the shareholding structure;
- impact on ratings;
- ... and all needs related to merger, spin-off operations or any major change to your scope.

Our offer

- Capital Structure Advisory
Strategic analysis of your capital structure optimisation worldwide, through our capital structure advisory approach, is one of our key differentiators. We leverage on our comprehensive products and services offering to provide our clients with tailored advice on funding strategies ahead of a transformational move. We foster a high-level strategic dialogue with our clients that enables us to advise them upstream.

- Strategic and Acquisition finance
We provide our clients with recommendations and solutions for financing their external growth. We offer structuring and funding in the context of acquisitions and other large/complex event-driven corporate transactions.

- Rating Advisory
Credit rating is fundamental to an organisation’s financial strength. Societe Generale has been one of the first banks to provide its clients with dedicated rating advisory support and has today a recognised expertise. In this field, we are an all-in-one service provider. With an extensive capital market and rating agency background, our Rating Advisory team supports you in all ratings considerations, including first-time ratings, rating upgrade/defense, capital structure optimisation and debt capacity analysis. We offer credit rating and ESG advisory services.