Expand my business

Optimal financing solutions for event-driven transactions

Rabobank’s Global Acquisition Finance & Sponsor Coverage is a leading arranger across the entire spectrum of the mid to large corporate market, with focus on the global Food & Agri market.

We arrange both our own transactions (part of which we syndicate to other institutions) and participate in transactions led by other banks. We facilitate structuring, execution and management of event-driven financing.

Our principal customers are financial sponsors who acquire a controlling interest in the target company by using funds under their management raised from third-party investors. Rabobank’s long-term approach is reflected by our hold policy, where we hold significant amounts of the debt issued by the bank’s customers to maturity.

Our roots as a Food & Agri bank put us in a unique position to provide our customers with in-depth knowledge and innovative ideas. And thanks to the expertise of other related departments, such as the Mergers & Acquisitions and Food & Agri Research, plus our intensive teamwork with these teams, we can provide you with full-service solutions.

Advise across all sectors on capital structure

Rabobank’s Capital Structuring team advises companies on their capital structure, linked to acquisitions, refinancings, restructurings and other major events.

Our capital Structuring team has professionals on four continents (Europe, North America, Asia and Australia) and is therefore well positioned to assist and advise clients on their capital structure or related topics across the globe.

As leading advisor, our mandates typically include:

Capital Structuring is part of Rabobank’s Corporate Finance Advisory team, together with our Mergers & Acquisitions colleagues. We provide our clients with integrated funding advice related to key corporate events.

Tailor-made corporate lending solutions.

Are you planning to expand your business, either nationally or internationally? We can provide the financing you need to expand and develop your business both in the German market and internationally.

We offer individual solutions along with substantiated knowledge of the global Food & Agri markets.

We arrange and underwrite our own transactions and participate in transactions led by other banks. We facilitate structuring, execution and management of working capital, growth capital and event-driven financing.

Our global footprint and roots as a Food & Agri bank put us in a very distinctive position to provide our clients with in-depth knowledge, market insight and unique ideas. On the basis of additional expertise of other Rabobank departments such as Capital Markets, Mergers & Acquisitions, Structured Finance, Asset Based Financing, Trade & Commodity Finance, Financial Logistics and our intensive interactions with those departments, we can provide you with a full-service financing solution.

Product examples:

Strategic, financial and capital-raising solutions

Rabobank’s Debt Capital Markets offers you solutions that you can use to raise funds, especially long term funds. We can arrange funding through bond issuance, syndicated loans and private placements.

Rabobank can advise you and ensure that your company’s debt is offered to the market in the right format, at the right time and at the right price. Our product knowledge is based on strong foundations. Not only do we develop and structure unique products, but we also provide you with access to our retail and institutional distribution channels.

Thanks to our strong track record and sector focus, our clients and other lenders see us as a key partner in syndications. Our bond market specialists are highly experienced in the structuring and placement of various bond solutions.

We originate and execute cross-border and domestic US and EU private placements for our clients in a variety of categories, from vanilla senior unsecured to structured project financing and credit tenant lease notes.

Securitisation and Covered Bonds (issuance) are attractive ways of financing your business or to achieve balance sheet optimisation. Rabobank is a key player in the Benelux asset-backed securities and covered bond markets.

With our hybrid capital structuring, liability management and rating advisory we offer our clients a wide range of balance sheet management and financing options. Rabobank is a leading structurer of hybrid capital, employing the latest techniques and terms to provide our corporate and financial institution clients maximum flexibility when accessing this product.

Main benefits at a glance:

Close to our clients with export finance professionals.

Rabobank Export Finance finances exports of capital goods and services, primarily to emerging markets. The relevant credit risks, mainly commercial and political risks, are covered by the government-backed Export Credit Agency (ECA) in the exporter’s home country.

What qualifies us to be your partner in Export Finance:

Our product offerings:

Advantages for you:

Advantages for buyers:

In addition, non-recourse project finance structures can benefit from ECA cover and, thanks to our close partnership with Rabobank’s Project Finance team, we are well positioned to combine Export Finance and Project Finance products.

Maximise the utilisation of your working capital:

Do you recognise the following developments in your business: strong growth, international expansion, buy and build strategy or seasonal patterns in cash flow? If so, then securing sufficient liquidity can be a challenge. Factoring can help you to unlock the value in your trade receivables and inventory, enhancing your cash flow and optimising the leverage in your balance sheet.

How can factoring help me? What is the day-to-day impact on my financial department? And will it fit within my current finance structure? These are all valid questions. Our IT platform is designed to support your cash flow planning, enabling you to have funds available the next day. You can monitor all the necessary details, such as debtor payments, ageing, payment behaviour and more. Not only will you maximise your cash, you will also receive management information enabling you to handle your cash flow and individual debtors more effectively. Factoring is the most flexible solution for the management of your working capital requirements on a daily basis. It is often one of many finance solutions for your business. Additionally, factoring is complementary to other finance solutions and is easily combined with other or more complex solutions such as syndicated facilities.

The bank that knows your sector inside out

Rabobank’s Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) team acts as the client’s advisor in both sell-side and buy-side transactions. With M&A professionals on four continents and an outstanding global network and track-record, the M&A team is fully equipped to advise clients in transactions ranging from public auctions to tailored one-on-one situations.

Our expertise stretches to advising both public and private companies, combined with a focus on mid-market family businesses, corporates and financial sponsors. Transactions are supported by dedicated teams led by senior bankers with critical sector knowledge and deal experience.

Rabobank M&A focuses on the Consumer, Food & Agribusiness internationally and has the largest M&A team fully dedicated to the Consumer, Food & Agribusiness sector among the world’s leading financial institutions and boutique advisors.

In addition to its strong sector knowledge, Rabobank M&A has a Financial Sponsors coverage team which is an integrated part of Rabobank’s banking activities. This team focuses on providing tailored advisory and process services for transactions involving Financial Sponsors. Rabobank M&A has extensive experience in leading buy-side and sell-side mandates both to and for financial sponsors.

As part of the Rabobank Group, M&A can offer integrated transaction solutions through Acquisition Finance, Capital Structuring, Relationship Banking and dedicated industry research.