The root of every business transaction and relationship is built on trust. At Saudi Funds Investment Banking, we believe this to be our fundamental guiding philosophy of conducting business and to ensure our competitive sustainability. With this being a cornerstone of our approach, we seek to lay a strong emphasis on building sustainable and long-term relationships. Our commitment to partner our clients through all stages of their business cycles thus stands strong. We see the completion of transaction as the beginning of an enduring relationship that is based on the clients' confidence in us to deliver true value.
To Saudi Funds, creating value is not merely confined to delivery of services. It extends further in its ability to provide our clients with core and critical insights that support their decision-making process on a long-term basis, provide ready assistance at all times, represent clients' interests and generate strategic solution that are completely aligned to their overall business objectives. There is no better time to build trust than during adversity.
Equity Capital Markets (ECM) Group
We leverage our extensive relationships and experience to support acquisitions, recapitalizations and growth of clients by raising capital. We have a strong presence in KSA and have developed deep and enduring institutional relationships across investor categories and providers of capital. Because of our ideation ability coupled with our strong tie ups with our international business partners, we are able to create innovative and path breaking solutions for our clients as well as provide a value proposition to facilitate their business to grow.
Our strong capabilities in raising capital in KSA (equity - both public and private as well as debt capital), is complemented by our partner's international reach and unmatched expertise. Our dedicated capital markets team is able to guide our clients through the regulatory process surrounding capital markets. Our acclaimed regulatory and procedural know-how enables us to create innovative solutions for our clients. With these resources, we are able to create innovative structures that are aligned to your business plans and stake holder objectives. NCBC's Equity Capital Markets (ECM) Group oversees activities in the equity markets. The Group provides support in the instigation of primary and secondary IPO's and other market transactions and manages their structuring, syndication, marketing and distribution.
Our activities are designed to help the clients succeed in the ever-changing financial environment. We possess experience in assisting with a scope of services from large privatizations, initial public offerings and secondary placements through to smaller public transactions and private placements.
Together with our parent bank Saudi Funds, we have one of the largest distribution networks with unparalleled access to institutional, high net worth individuals, and retail client base in Saudi Arabia. This broad distribution structure creates better pricing and more rapid completion of transactions for our clients. Saudi Funds is the largest IPO manager (by number of deals) – has strong knowledge of local market and CMA / other regulatory requirements.
We are the leading underwriter of equity in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, having completed offerings across all sectors including Oil and Gas, Petrochem, Insurance and Fast Moving Consumer Goods sectors. We have established a reputation for Lead Managing and Lead Underwriting landmark transactions.
Our ECM Group based KSA and Bahrain comprises of industry professionals focused on delivering superior advice and providing delivery expertise to our clients. We work in ever-closer partnerships with our clients, drawing on our experience and expertise to steer them through testing situations and providing high-quality advice. A result of our high level of service and client benefits is that most of our clients return to us for follow-on financings and / or advisory work.
Our commitment to objectivity, combined with the capability to provide integrated and unique solutions, allows us to address every challenging business issue with unparalleled professional rigor.
Saudi Funds is also considered to be the leader in the field of floatation management services through its dedicated and experienced team and state of the art technology, this has been demonstrated through its successful role in several floatation management mandates (including management of multiple IPOs concurrently), rights issues and dividend distribution on behalf of several Saudi corporations.
Debt Capital Markets
Saudi Funds's Debt Capital Markets (DCM) Group is responsible for all fixed income capital raising activities undertaken by our clients.
We conduct business across the whole credit spectrum and throughout the entire region. Saudi Funds, with assistance from our parent company, the Saudi National Bank, acts as a full service provider to our client base. We have a broad range of corporate and sovereign clients. We provide access to both institutional and retail demand by leveraging on a breadth of distribution capabilities, extensive structural experience and the expertise garnered by our Debt Capital Market Group. This enables Saudi Funds to deliver highly structured solutions for your complex transactions.
We seek to consistently be at the forefront of the region's debt capital markets, offering corporate financings across the credit spectrum and executing a diverse range of deals across industry and product lines such as convertibles, Sukuks, vanilla and structured bonds.
Mergers and Acquisitions
We are M&A experts, with leaders drawn from the top echelons of investment banking backed by over 40 years of experience and relationship building, we believe we are unparalleled in our M&A service offering. Proof of this is several landmark transactions to our credit and many enduring client relationships because of our proven ability to create true value for their businesses.
Because every M&A involves an element of ambiguity, venturing into a transaction without sound advice can be a risky proposition. Saudi Funds helps its clients to mitigate this risk through thorough due diligence of its prospective business partners. As an integrated financial services group, we are able to draw on group strengths as well as have deep relationships with external agencies (such as reputed legal advisors, accounting and audit firms, technical and market consultants) to evaluate the risk potential of any transaction and create innovative solutions to mitigate this risk.
At the core of our business is financial analysis. Our professionals understand your financial needs and create financial structures that optimise value for our clients. Our Mergers and Acquisitions team assists our clients in the structuring and execution of a wide range of complex transactions including mergers, acquisitions, privatizations, divestitures, joint ventures, spin offs, and corporate restructuring.
Successfully running a business in KSA necessitates a deep understanding of the regulatory landscape and viable transaction structures, therefore have to be rooted in a sound knowledge of business legislation, practices, tax and holding company structures, financial reporting requirements, compliance with industry regulators, and transfer pricing mechanisms. Because of our research and ideation ability, we are able to track industry trends and create for our clients a value proposition that will help their business grow.
Real Estate Group
The development of the real estate sector's services is critical for the private sector to fulfill its role in the expansion of the Saudi economy. Therefore Saudi Funds created the Real Estate Advisory Group within the investment banking business to fill the gap between real estate developments and investors.
We advise our clients on the appropriate capital structures for their transactions and help in bringing together the necessary resources, including banking services and financing facilities from banking institutions and brining in appropriate investors and investment vehicles for successful project execution.
We combine financial modeling with leading edge financial engineering techniques along with our real estate expertise to deliver transaction structures that yield cost efficient financing along with an optimized level of risk return characteristics for potential investors.
Our team is responsible for providing project evaluation and financial due diligence, feasibility review, loan structuring, custom-tailored financial solutions, and providing risk management analysis. Saudi Funds will also utilize its distribution network to place securities related to the transactions it undertakes whenever appropriate.