At the crossroads of lending and capital markets, Structured Finance designs tailor-made financings for clients on a worldwide level.

The 470 professionals of Structured Finance bring their expertise to corporates, financial institutions, private equity sponsors and local government authorities. Whether for an acquisition, a structured or a plain vanilla financing, Structured Finance will provide custom-made solutions with the latest financial architecture and the best placement on the appropriate debt markets. Structured Finance manages the full spectrum from origination, structuring, underwriting, warehousing and distribution on the loan syndication markets. BNP Paribas Structured Finance operates around the world through three main platforms Paris/London, New York and Hong Kong, with teams present in 18 locations, bringing locally the talents and specific skills of our experts to develop long term client and investor relationships.  Structured Finance strength lies in its seasoned distribution network and the world-class know-how of its core activities:

Acquisition Finance & Leveraged Finance: Originates and structures debt (Loan Mezzanine & High Yield) financings for acquisitions. Structured Finance acts as one-stop provider of capital for strategic acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, recapitalisations and restructurings. Loan Syndications: Prices, underwrites and distributes syndicated loans to banks, corporate and institutional investors. Loan Syndication is in charge of the syndication of the loan & Mezzanine debt originated & structured by all financing metiers. A trading desk in Europe has also been developped in Europe working on the loan secondary market. Media Telecommunication: Active financial advisor and lender to telecommunications & media companies, offering structuring underwritting and distribution expertise at all stages of their funding cycle: from start up/early stage funding, to senior debt, including jumbo loans, network build-out facilities and refinancing, subordinated debt, or bridge funding to high yield capital markets. Real Estate Finance: Originates, structures and arranges financings for real estate professionals in Europe: main French developers, large listed European property companies, investment funds and equity sponsors.

Awards & rankings BNP Paribas voted Best Arranger of Western European Loans, Euroweek Poll, Jan 2008 BNP Paribas # 2 EMEA Bookrunner (by Volume) for 2007, by Thomson Financial & Dealogic, Jan 2008 BNP Paribas has been awarded Overall Asia Pacific Deal of the Year for Wesfarmers, Euroweek Asia,Jan 2008 BNP Paribas has been awarded European Telecom Loan Bank of the Year 2007 by Telecom Finance, Jan 2008 BNP Paribas awarded European Leveraged Loan of the Year for TdF (€3.97bn), IFR Awards 2007 BNP Paribas voted Best Russian Loan for Norilsk Nickel ($6bn), Euroweek Poll, Jan 2008 BNP Paribas# 2 bookrunner of Singapore syndicated loans for 2007by Thomson FinancialIFR