Blum & Co. Information

Blum & Co. provides clients access to capital through its capabilities in originating, structuring, and placing financing in a broad range of markets worldwide. We structure and place equity, debt, and hybrid financings - traditional, specialized or inventive, simple or complex. Blum & Co. also structures and arranges integrated financings involving multiple layers of debt and equity - in recapitalization, restructuring, project and related off-balance-sheet financing, and leveraged buyouts, including ESOP buyouts. Blum & Co. has particular experience and expertise in project financings, building on its partners' years leading numerous such financings for one of the world's largest investment banking firms. Blum & Co.'s financings are arranged privately, usually with domestic and international corporations and/or institutional investors including insurance companies, pension funds, banks, and specialized funds and financial organizations. Where public equity or debt markets are the most appropriate, Blum & Co. advises and assists its clients in negotiating and arranging underwritings through its partners' extensive underwriting experience and outstanding contacts among the major and mid-size brokerage firms. Blum & Co. has considerable expertise in helping issuers to examine the range of alternatives for their financings, to choose the structures that best balance the issuer's needs and the capital markets at the time, and to execute the financings effectively and efficiently. A key strength is the extensive network Blum & Co. maintains of lenders and investors worldwide, whose changing interests and needs we know and on whom we can rely. This network includes, but is not limited to, domestic financial institutions, Asian and European institutions, and less traditional financing sources such as corporate strategic partners, corporate investors and specialized funds. Where expanded contacts may be needed to reach particular sources, Blum & Co. does not hesitate to extend its reach by drawing upon relationships ...