Capital Markets

We operate on capital markets with equity transactions (IPOs, capital increases and convertible bonds), placing debt instruments and as brokers

Equity

We support companies at crucial times of growth that impact their financial structure, like IPOs, capital increases or convertible bond placements. We also offer equity brokerage services (through Mediobanca Securities) and corporate finance services (equity investments and treasury shares).

Equity capital markets (ECM)
Our leadership in Italian equity capital placement is unrivalled and our standing in Europe is progressively rising. Our Equity Capital Markets (ECM) team has a proven track record in the structuring, coordination and execution of capital market deals, including:

  • Initial Public Offerings (IPOs);
  • capital increases offered as options;
  • secondary offerings and accelerated bookbuild offerings (ABO);
  • placement of convertible/equity-linked bonds.

Our equity sales platform has been named the best brokerage house for both Italian and international investors on multiple occasions. It secures unique access to the market for companies and investment funds.
 
Our ECM team is staffed with specialists whose exceptional track record is recognized by customers and investors. Our professionals:

  • have participated in all the most important transactions in Italy and are increasingly expanding their coverage of the European market, as demonstrated by the deals they have managed in recent years;
  • have consistently placed first in Italian ECM rankings over the past five years (Dealogic), and have repeatedly been named the best ECM team (Finance Community and Global Capital). They successfully complete large, complex deals, even in unfavourable market conditions.

Mediobanca Securities
Mediobanca Securities is our equity brokerage division. With over 50 professionals working out of London, Milan, Paris and New York, Mediobanca Securities offers an integrated service encompassing equity research, selling and trading of Italian (with over 100 companies covered) and international equities.
Mediobanca Securities website (restricted access): www.mediobancasecurities.com

Equity Solutions
The Equity Solutions team structures and executes corporate finance deals involving equities and treasury shares, including:

  • recourse and non-recourse securities-backed loans;
  • management of equity investments: increase in profitability, coverage and monetization;
  • transaction structuring and financing for the acquisition of listed companies;
  • management of treasury shares and coverage of stock option plans;
  • capital structure optimization;
  • structuring and coverage of equity-linked products and derivatives for M&A.

Equity Derivatives institutional marketing
We provide our customers, mainly institutional investors, with investment solutions that are index-linked to financial markets, tailoring their complexity to our customers’ requirements, from plain vanilla to more sophisticated solutions.

Equity Finance
We provide securities lending (stock loans, synthetic products, exclusive lending/borrowing programs, etc.), equity repo and cash financing solutions.

Fixed income

We handle bond issues and private placements and structure interest rate, credit and alternative product solutions.

Debt Capital Markets
Our Debt Capital Markets team assists industrial and financial customers in the placement of debt securities (bonds and asset-backed notes) in both public and private placements.
Our services cover all stages of the transaction, from structuring to distribution, and all product types (senior bonds, covered bonds, subordinated notes, hybrid securities, securitization, etc.)

The DCM team, with a proven track record and solid professionalism, has worked on nearly 400 deals in the past seven years thanks to its widespread coverage of domestic and international issuers and constant search for across-the-board solutions to meet our customers’ many different needs.
The sales teams in Milan and London constantly interact to ensure the extensive coverage of major European investors active on the corporate (IG and HY) and FIG markets.

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Fixed Income Solutions

Our Fixed Income Solutions team mainly serves institutional customers that need to restructure their portfolios, structure investment products, increase asset liquidity and diversify their sources of financing.
These services include the structuring of interest rate solutions, credit and alternative products to meet investment requirements ranging from private banking customers to corporate treasuries, to the optimization of financial institutions’ capital structure.

Research Office

In addition to the reports that Mediobanca Securities writes to support financial brokerage, we conduct economic research on companies and domestic and international financial markets.
Mediobanca Studiese has been renowned for its exceptional analysis work for decades, publishing reports that serve as the frame of reference for many business sectors and economic issues. Our research is known for its quality of information, objectiveness and original approach. We cover two main areas: financial market analysis and corporate and business sector research.

Mediobanca Studies website: www.areastudimediobanca.com