Investment Banking

CR Holding a.s.

Overview

Our independent investment banking and securities services help entrepreneurs, owners and executives achieve their business and strategic objectives.Over three generations, we have built an international business by offering a comprehensive, personalized service platform dedicated to our clients. We understand what entrepreneurs and businesses need, as well as the challenges they face, because we are entrepreneurs ourselves.By building long-term relationships with our clients, our expertise adds value at every stage of their journey.

M&A Advisory

Successfully buying and selling companies requires more than the right funding, planning and preparation. It requires experienced advisors by your side, whom you can trust and who will help you identify, and make the most of, opportunities available.We advise entrepreneurs, CEOs, executives and owners on mergers and acquisitions, acquisition finance, complex structuring and market transactions. We create tailored corporate finance solutions to address some of the most important strategic decisions key stakeholders have to make.Our institutional-grade, best-in-class advisory investment banking services add value to private companies and institutions, as well as their stakeholders and executives. Over five decades and three generations, we have been advising on a full range of local and cross-border transactions, helping our clients with:
    – Mergers and acquisitions;
     – Ownership change;
     – Corporate defense situations;
     – Independent valuations/fairness opinions;
     – Corporate restructurings and generational takeovers;
     – Debt and equity placements (public and private);
     – Acquisition financing;

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Global Financing

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We facilitate client transactions for all product types across geographies for corporations and entrepreneurs.If you are aiming to raise capital, we can design, structure and execute your public and private transactions:
     – Equity capital;
     – Debt capital (investment-grade, high-yield or leveraged loans);
     – Refinancing, bridge loans, acquisition finance; and Structured products.
We can also act as market makers in fixed income on certain markets we know well.The services that we offer are:

Equity Capital

Working closely with public and private companies and financial sponsors, we originate, structure, and execute equity and equity-linked financings such as:
– Initial public offerings (IPOs);
– Follow-on equity issues;
– Equity-linked/convertible issues;
– Private placements; and Derivatives.
For institutional clients, we can arrange financing on the back of the above securities and help organize securities lending and other prime brokerage services.
 

Debt Capital

Our team originates, structures and executes debt financings for public and private companies as well as financial sponsors:
– Investment grade bonds;
– Structured loans, high yield and mezzanine financings;
– Acquisition finance;
– Structured finance solutions and asset securitization;
– Liability management on exchange offers, tenders and other consents; and – Liability management on broader corporate restructurings, asset sales and refinancing.
 

Structured Products

Tailored, structured investment solutions based on your company’s objectives help you take advantage of opportunities quickly, in a way that maximizes your return while reducing your risk. In order to help you reach your objectives, our service is always: FocusedLeveraging decades of experience in creating innovative products that let entrepreneurs capitalize on specific situations or enhance investment portfolios, we bring the optimal solutions dedicated to your own investment portfolio or business needs.FastWeb works fast in order to ensure you don’t miss your tactical opportunity.FlexibleDue to the many variations possible when creating a structured product, practically any return pattern can be created according to a given risk profile.

Sales & Trading

We are not trying to add more complexity to our client’s lives. Our focus is always on making your success as simple and seamless as possible. This means not solely offering a wide range of sales, trading, execution and clearing services to entrepreneurs and businesses. We tailor our services and solutions so that they are intuitive, flexible and as easy to access as possible. We create solutions that help you work better, rather than slowing you down. Our focus is always on helping you effectively access the most relevant markets, no matter the investment and trading strategies you chose. From cash equities to credit, from derivatives to emerging markets, we can help you access the right products and required liquidity.

Equities

We execute transactions for cash equities, equity-linked and equity derivative products worldwide.Our personalized approach means that our clients get all of our attention. We are active partners and always operate with their long-term success in mind.We support your trading requirements in common stocks and ETFs on the cash side, to equity options, equity swaps, warrants, structured notes and baskets of securities on the derivatives side.
 

Fixed Income

Whatever type of fixed-income assets you trade in, we can provide support and add value.From sovereign credit, corporate investment-grade, high-yield bond issuances to credit derivatives, we use our expertise and experience to make trading simpler, not more complex. We structure and trade the full range of collateralized securities, including those backed by residential mortgages and commercial loans, in both the cash and derivatives markets.
 

Commodities

Working closely with market leaders in the commodities sector helps us provide optimal risk management, investor products, financing solutions and liquidity across commodities markets such as oil, metals, power and natural gas.We only partner with agents that have the knowledge of both the financial and physical aspects of commodities and are market specialists, originators and execution leaders.