Investment Banking

We create sophisticated strategies for clients’ corporate finance needs. Our banking structure leverages the expertise of bankers with industry specific and geographic expertise across all of Barclays products to provide clients with the most informed strategic advice and comprehensive financial solutions.
 
Aligned to the sector specialism approach in Corporate Banking, our industry coverage groups include communications, consumer, financial institutions, financial sponsors, healthcare, industrial, media, natural resources, power, real estate and retail.

Barclays Global Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) group delivers strategic advisory services to companies worldwide. Our capabilities cover the entire spectrum of strategic alternatives available to clients, including acquisitions, pestitures, restructurings, leveraged buyouts, takeover defense, special committee assignments and exclusive sales.
  

Our global team of M&A professionals works in partnership with industry coverage bankers, using a highly analytical approach to provide unique insights, expert tactical advice and quality execution in approaching clients' most challenging issues.

• Equity Capital Markets – we are one of the pre-eminent franchises in the equity markets with a full range of capabilities from IPOs and follow-on offerings, to private equity transactions. We work with bankers to originate, structure and market equity and equity-linked securities
• Leveraged Finance – we are a lead arranger and underwriter of debt capital in international and high yield markets, providing you with all aspects of debt financing from origination, to structuring, syndication and secondary trading
• Debt Capital Markets – Barclays has consistently been a leader in the fixed income markets, ranking among the top underwriters of fixed income securities worldwide, and takes a comprehensive approach to guiding issuers and investors through difficult markets
• Loans – we provide a focus of excellence for the origination, structuring, execution and distribution of all types of loans with coverage of a variety of specialist industry sectors, spanning corporates, financial sponsors, project finance, structured trade, export finance and financial institutions

Barclays Restructuring and Finance group provides full-service restructuring expertise, including financing and traditional restructuring advisory services, and can address the complete spectrum of corporate distress and recovery. The group's specific capabilities include:

• working with industry, capital markets, M&A and liability management teams, in order to provide out-of-court options for companies to avoid administration, bankruptcy or other insolvency proceeding
• working with clients to address issues at distressed or insolvent subsidiaries
• applying our advisory and capital markets' expertise to help debtors and creditors move efficiently through insolvency proceedings or the Chapter 11 process
• advising strategic and financial buyers with the unique challenges of buying distressed, insolvent and bankrupt companies
• providing a global approach with significant cross-border transaction expertise