PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALL CLUB

Risk: £85m 7 year loan
Mandate: Interest Rate Hedging

OUTCOME: £910K OF ADDED VALUE

  • Introduced hedging counterparty with price that was £180k below client’s house bank
  • Proposed hedging strategy that cost an extra £14k initially but reduced interest expense by £730k

FAMILY OFFICE OUTCOME: €16M OF INTEREST SAVINGS

Risk: Market Risk on Refinance
Mandate: Pre-Hedge maturing €80m fixed rate loan

  • Sourced counterparty who provided favourable credit terms and pricing
  • Arranged Swap facility that saved client €16m by pre-hedging interest rate risk

Structuring Bespoke Hedge for Real Estate Investor

Risk: Bank required £75m hedge for 5 year term of loan. Client wanted flexibility in asset was sold
Mandate: Structure cost-effective hedge that minimised break cost if loan not held to term

OUTCOME: Delivered savings over floating of £1.6m to date, no termination cost on refinance

  • Initial Swap to crystalise 8 rate cuts priced into forward curve over initial 30 months
  • Final Flat curve for last 30 months hedged with wide collar to defend Interest Cover covenant and minimise risk of large break cost of refinance

GERMAN REAL ESTATE FUND

Risk: FX Risk on €145m loan to buy UK asset

OUTCOME: SAVED £0.2M & NO COLLATERAL RISK

  • Introduced counterparty that provided generous credit terms and tight pricing with minimal admin
  • Created hedge removing risk of collateral event and modified structure to reduce cost by £0.2m

Diesel Hedging for agri-business

Risk: Bank exiting commodity hedging
Mandate: Source new counterparty to manage diesel hedging

OUTCOME: Diesel Hedging lines arranged

  • ISDA negotiated
  • Unsecured and uncollateralised hedging line arranged
  • Hedges novated to new counterparty with interruption to business

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