Capabilities
At Centerview, we work with clients on their most critical and complex challenges and opportunities.
We serve some of the largest companies globally in a broad range of industries, providing discreet and independent strategic and financial advice, unencumbered by conflicts of interest.
Our partners have deep experience across the most complex public and private company transactions, whether it's a merger, acquisition, sale, spinoff, divestiture, cross-border or other deal. More than that, the firm's relationship-based approach with our clients means that our focus and expertise extends far beyond traditional investment banking advisory services. We look to add value to our clients not only in transactions but also during the majority of the time when their focus is on managing their existing businesses.
Our Partners have extensive experience advising boards when an independent voice matters most. Assignments include:
Special Committee
Centerview is the leading advisor to independent directors and special committees, having advised on more large-scale special-committee transactions than any other financial advisor in recent years. We bring dedicated senior partners with unmatched execution experience in potential conflict situations, working seamlessly with our industry experts.
Shareholder Activism
Why do public companies choose Centerview for corporate defense? Because we don't treat it like a product. Instead, we believe defense is a natural extension of our firm's core capabilities: a long-term, client-first approach, analytical rigor, creativity in approaching complex problems, lack of conflicts, and integrity and credibility with the market.
Centerview provides a full suite of restructuring advisory services to companies, boards, shareholders, creditors and other stakeholders. We are committed to providing senior level attention and independent advice to assist our clients in addressing their most complex capital structure issues. Consistent with Centerview's strategic advisory approach, our practice distinguishes itself by providing advice to our clients at their most critical and transformational points.
Specifically, our services include:
- Capital structure evaluation
- Liability management
- Debt capacity and valuation analysis
- Expert testimony
- Amendments
- Financings ("regular way" and "bespoke")
- Exchange and tender offers
- Out-of-court recapitalizations
- Chapter 11 restructurings (prepackaged, prearranged and traditional)
Our team has collectively advised on over $200 billion in transactions. The practice is led by Partners Sam Greene, Marc Puntus, Karn Chopra, Ryan Kielty, Whit Graham and Bob Beasley. Our team has worked together for more than 20 years and possesses more than 100 years of cumulative debt and restructuring advisory experience.
Centerview's Capital Advisory team delivers integrated capital structure advice and execution across debt, equity and hybrid products. We advise corporates, sponsors and governments on a wide range of public and private corporate-finance and capital-markets solutions, supported by deep relationships with institutional investors, private and high-grade credit funds, bank and insurance capital providers, sovereign wealth funds and family offices. Because we are free of trading and lending conflicts, our advice is independent and focused solely on our clients' objectives.
Our areas of expertise include:
- Capital structure advisory: capital structure, corporate domicile, liquidity, ratings and balance sheet strategy, including new issuance, refinancings and recapitalizations
- Debt solutions: bank and term loans, private credit, high-grade and high-yield bonds and junior and holdco financings (both on- and off-balance sheet)
- Equity and equity-linked solutions: private placements, structured and preferred equity, convertibles, M&A deal contingent hedging, and IPO and follow-on advisory and underwriting
- Strategic and alternative capital: joint ventures, strategic partnerships, structured products and derivatives, high grade private credit and asset-based and project financings
- Capital allocation: spin-offs, split-offs, dividend policy and share repurchase strategies
- Investor risk management: structured solutions including secondaries, continuation vehicles, margin loans and NAV loans, and position hedging strategies
- Sovereign advisory: counseling governments on capital raising and debt restructuring, capital deployment and structured solutions