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Calyon in the Americas offers corporate and institutional clients state of the art financial products & services. We structure, originate and distribute tailor made financial solutions for both domestic & international clients, drawing on proven capital market expertise coupled with in depth knowledge of the US & Latin American markets.
With its main office in New York, Calyon in the Americas offers clients a full range of corporate, investment banking and capital market products & services. To better serve the market we maintain US regional offices in Chicago, Dallas, Houston and Los Angeles. We additionally remain active throughout Latin America with offices in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Uruguay.
Calyon Americas was created through the consolidation of the U.S. and Latin American branches of Crédit Lyonnais and Crédit Agricole Indosuez. The new unit combines all of the bank's corporate and investment banking and capital markets activities for the Americas, with the exception of futures market execution and clearing, which is handled by Calyon Financial, and European equities brokerage, which is the responsibility of Cheuvreux. Calyon Americas is currently one of the top ten foreign banks in the United States. |
Country coverage: Latin America, Canada
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Capital markets and investment banking
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Capital markets activities include the traditional but increasingly sophisticated fixed income, foreign exchange and cash management businesses, with New York playing an important role in the group's management of its U.S. dollar funding. Capital markets activities also include equities trading and derivatives and commodities hedging, and a special emphasis placed on the rapidly expanding credit market sector (banking syndication, traditional bond and ABS issues, bond sales, securitization conduits, credit derivatives and CDO/CLO management…).
Calyon Americas is present in investment banking through equities capital markets, advisory services (M&A, and financial and tax engineering) and the sale of equities derivatives to its corporate clients. It is also involved in Asian and U.S. equities brokerage. This full range of business lines and skills provides Calyon Americas with a solid platform upon which to develop its business and enable it to take an optimistic view of its future.
Financing
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Calyon in the Americas maintains specialized coverage lines in the following areas: aerospace & defense, agrifoods, automotive, correspondent banking, energy, financial institutions, financial sponsors, forest products paper & packaging, gaming, healthcare, homebuilding, lodging, media & communications, project finance, real estate and transportation. This specialized client focus complements longstanding coverage of corporate clients through our banking teams in the US & Latin America.
Calyon Americas has developed a client base of more than 1000 companies.
| References | [Financing] |
- Charter Operating Co., Calyon: documentation agent for a $6.5 billion refinancing credit facilities raised by Charter Operating Co., and Calyon Securities: co-manager of a $1.5 billion Senior Secured Notes offering, April 2004.
- Alliant Techsystems Inc., joint lead arranger on a $700,000,000 syndicated senior credit facility and senior co-manager on a $280,000,000 convertible bond issue, March 2004.
- Cablevision Systems Corp. (one of the largest cable television operators in the U.S.), co-manager on $500,000,000 Senior Note Offering, March 2004.
- Willbros Group, Inc., $150,000,000 revolving credit facility and $60,000,000 of convertible debentures, March 2004.
- Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc., administrative agent, sole lead arranger, and book manager for a $60,000,000 secured revolving credit facility, February 2004.
- GCI, co-lead manager on $230,000,000 senior note offering, February 2004.
- American Axle and Manufacturing, underwriter on $130,000,000 senior convertible note offering, February 2004.
- Calpine Rocky Mountain, lead arranger, co-book runner and co-syndication agent on a $250,000,000 project financing a gas fired 622 MW power plant, February 2004.
- Global Industries, arranger on a $150,000,000 bank facility and co-manager on a $50,000,000 equity issue, February 2004.
- Spartech Corporation, underwriter for common stock offering, February 2004.
- BWX Technologies (a subsidiary of Mac Dermott Group specialized in nuclear maintenance), $125,000,000 3-year bank facility, January 2004.
- Ashford Hospitality group (a hotel REIT), co-underwritten on $60,000,000 revolving credit facility, January 2004.
| International Support to Middle Market Clients Network | [Financing] |
Located in New York, the Crédit Agricole Group Liaison Desk in the United States assists Crédit Agricole's mid-cap corporate customers with their international operations, by providing expertise on the local environment as well as by securing access to a wide spectrum of banking services abroad.
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