Housing debt to equity products under one roof, we help our clients capture windows of opportunity by creating innovative, tailor-made solutions across the entire capital structure and delivering integrated capital raising strategies.

Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking’s, Debt Capital Markets department provides issuer and investor clients with advice, products and solutions adapted to their specific financing and debt capital-raising or investment needs.

Through an integrated platform combining multi-product origination, structuring and syndication, we tailor optimised solutions to match the needs of every type of issuer, including corporate and financial institutions and insurance companies, sovereigns and local authorities, public bodies, agencies, and supranational institutions.

The range of options spans classical (and innovative) bonds and loans as well as debt capital raising and financial solutions, liability management, and derivatives.

Our breadth and depth of product expertise is backed by our knowledge of Debt Capital Markets (especially in Europe where we are among the top four leaders), our recognised engineering capabilities and our strong syndication/placement capacities throughout Europe, the United States and Asia. SG CIB provides effective distribution through public or private placement and through bank syndication for all types of credit (bonds, loans, asset-backed, EMTNs and complex structures integrating fixed-income derivatives).

SG CIB’s Equity Capital Markets team offers Corporate and Financial Institutions a broad range of products and services to assist them in all matters relative to their equity capital needs.

Our offering includes structuring, underwriting and execution of all equity and equity-related instruments providing capital market access to clients and specifically:

• Initial public offerings
• Capital increases
• Convertible bonds, exchangeable bonds, bonds with equity warrants and rights issues, etc.
• Other equity-related operations (private placement of controlling stakes, etc.)

Supported by our cross-asset research coverage and dedicated Syndication and Sales teams, our equity and equity-linked activities are highly rated in the market. In 2008, SG CIB was ranked number one in research on French equities, second in equity and equity-related issues in France and voted ’Leading pan-European sector team and number four-ranking pan-European equity House‘ (Thomson Extel Pan-European Survey, June 2008).