Global mergers and acquisitions

Confidently navigate M&A risk management

Chatham is an independent advisor to advocate for your business throughout the M&A process. Our team of capital markets experts sits on your side of the table, solving complex challenges, arranging access to capital, and securing confidence to achieve your best possible outcomes. We offer strategic corporate finance and capital raising services across a comprehensive range of debt, securitization, derivative, and equity capital products.

As the largest, independent financial risk management advisory and technology firm, executing over $4 billion in notion every day as well as thousands of ISDAs and regulatory agreements annually, Chatham can also provide insight for navigating M&A risk management.

With Chatham as your M&A financing and risk management partner,you can confidently achieve key objectives, including:

• Raise acquisition capital.
• Reduce the impact of currency fluctuation on the acquisition price.
• Evaluate the risk profile of the combined organizations.
• Optimize the capital structure given the consolidated currency and debt profile.
• Integrate operational, technology, and regulatory processes across risk management programs.
• Align hedge accounting policies, procedures, and documentation.

Chatham services

With Chatham, you can access independent capital advisory, plus all the strategic, operational, and technological capabilities required to effectively manage financial risk throughout an M&A transaction, including:

Pre-closing strategy and analysis

• Enterprise and equity value analysis
• Capital structure optimization
• Combined exposure profile assessment and impacts on pricing
• Acquisition hedge structure and execution strategy
• Due diligence on risk management objectives, processes, and compliance

Capital raising arrangement and placement

• Arrange debt, equity, and structured finance capital
• Access to capital from public, private, traditional, and alternative investors.

Strategic corporate finance advisory

• Acquisition finance strategy
• Optimizing corporate structure
• Investor management
  

Regulatory compliance

• ISDA negotiation, advisory, and analysis
• Compliance support, including analysis, due diligence, reporting, and technology

Combined operational risk management

• Alignment of corporate objectives and risk mitigation priorities
• Program design and implementation
• Evaluation of risk implications due to changes to organizational structure
• Policy coordination and internal protocols
• Hedge execution and daily operations

Hedge accounting

• Accounting advisory for acquisition hedge transactions
• Disposition of existing hedges and OCI reclassification
• Alignment of policies, procedures, and documentation
• Ongoing hedge accounting treatment for operational hedging
• Technical assistance with audit questions on designation and valuation methodologies

ChathamDirect financial risk management platform

• Comprehensive technology platform for managing FX, interest rate, and commodity risk
• Consolidated data repository across entities
• Integration of hedge execution and daily operations
• Ongoing valuations and visibility into policy compliance