Expand my business
Expanding your business internationally can be challenging. Rabobank offers a full range of integrated cross-border solutions to overcome your challenges. Our solutions help you finance your trade flows and improve the management of your international supply chains.
Rabobank’s Global Acquisition Finance & Sponsor Coverage is a leading arranger across the entire spectrum of the Dutch mid to large corporate market, and focuses on the mid to large F&A market globally.
We both arrange our own transactions (part of which we syndicate to other institutions) and participate in transactions led by other banks. We facilitate the structuring, execution and management of event-driven financing. Transactions are generally structured on the basis of the cash-flow generating ability of the party to be acquired and include senior debt, often accompanied by mezzanine and other instruments.
Our customers
Our principal customers are financial sponsors that acquire a controlling interest in the target company by using funds under their management raised from third-party investors. We target transactions requiring EUR 100-1,000 million in sustainable financing. 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.
Full-service solutions
Our roots as an F&A bank put us in a unique position to provide our customers with in-depth knowledge and unique 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 the bank’s customers with full-service solutions.
Rabobank’s Capital Structuring team advises companies on their capital structure, linked to acquisitions, refinancing, restructurings and other major events. The team has professionals on 4 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.
Corporate Finance Advisory
Capital Structuring is part of Rabobank’s Corporate Finance Advisory team, together with our colleagues from Mergers & Acquisitions. We provide our clients with integrated funding advice related to key corporate events. As leading advisor, our mandates typically include:
We can also negotiate on behalf of our client.
Rabobank’s Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) team provides M&A advisory services to public companies, private equity, governments, family owned businesses and entrepreneurs. Our team excels in a full range of advisory services including sell- and buy-side advisory, takeover defences, mergers, corporate restructurings, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, spin-offs and many more.
We offer:
With a local presence in all major geographies worldwide, our M&A team provides extensive cross-border execution capabilities. The team delivers a creative approach to strategic events through differentiated access and real-time insight based on ongoing dialogue with industry leaders, unique sector knowledge powered by Rabobank Sector Banking and Rabobank Food & Agriculture Research, and a deep understanding of each client’s objectives.
M&A/ECM
Rabobank’s M&A and Equity Capital Markets (ECM) teams provide truly strategic advice and process execution excellence as a result of distinguished sector knowledge and innovative solutions. Drawing on our deep expertise and the strength of our relationships, Rabobank M&A/ECM has built a leading franchise and is a trusted partner for our client’s most important decisions. Our clients turn to us for outstanding execution for their M&A advisory and capital raising objectives.
Rabobank’s Equity Capital Markets (ECM) team advises and assists public and privately-owned companies, public sector bodies and financial sponsors in equity capital market transactions. We offer a full range of capital markets products and brokerage services to provide our clients with bespoke solutions.
Whether you need to issue new shares, make a disposal, build your stake or sell existing shares; Rabobank ECM can help guide you right from the start through to the settlement of the transaction. Through our close collaboration with leading European broker Kepler Cheuvreux, Rabobank ECM provides access to more than 1,350 institutional clients, over 120 sales and sales traders and 130 research analysts covering 1,090 companies across 32 sectors.
Our products
Our Equity Capital Markets team combines market insight and intelligence with corporate finance knowledge to develop tailor-made capital raising solutions. Our specialists originate, structure and execute equity and equity-linked issues, such as initial public offerings (IPOs), secondary offerings, block trades, convertible bond offerings, share buy-backs and other types of equity advisory.
M&A/ECM
Rabobank’s Mergers & Acquisitions and ECM teams provide truly strategic advice and process execution excellence as a result of distinguished sector knowledge and innovative solutions. Drawing on our deep expertise and the strength of our relationships, Rabobank M&A/ECM has built a leading franchise and is a trusted partner for our client’s most important decisions. Our clients turn to us for outstanding execution for their M&A advisory and capital raising objectives.
Are you looking to expand your business, either nationally or internationally? We can provide the financing you need to expand and develop your business both in the Dutch market and internationally.
Our offer
We offer long and short-term loans, overdrafts and revolving credit facilities designed to meet the specific funding requirements of your business. Our global client base currently consists of approximately 1,600 clients that are typically leaders in their respective sectors and/or have a strong international focus.
We offer our corporate lending products out of 22 countries worldwide. We arrange and underwrite our own transactions and participate in transactions led by other banks. We facilitate the structuring, execution and management of working capital, growth capital and event-driven financing.
Our approach
Our approach is driven entirely by our sector knowledge, so we can provide you the optimal solutions in the context of your business requirements. In the Netherlands, we serve a broad range of sectors, including Industrial, Retail/Wholesale, Automotive, Building & Construction, Media/Telecom, Utilities, Real Estate Finance and F&A. On an international level, we focus on the F&A sector, including various sub sectors such as Animal Protein, Beverages, Consumer Food, Dairy, Farm Inputs, Grains, Oilseeds & Sugar, Supply Chain & Dairy.
Our market leadership position in The Netherlands and our global footprint and roots as an F&A 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 within Rabobank, we can provide you with a full-service financing solution.
Rabobank’s Debt Capital Markets offers you solutions that you can use to raise funds, especially long-term funds.
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.
Worldwide
We operate these businesses from Utrecht, London, New York, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Singapore, Mumbai, Sydney and Sao Paulo.
Our offer
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, financial institution and public sector clients maximum flexibility when accessing this product.
Sustainable finance solutions
For Rabobank, sustainable loans are the embodiment of our mission Growing a Better World Together. Because of our long-term relationship with clients, Rabobank is equally equipped and driven to help our clients to jointly set the sustainability targets. Incorporating sustainability targets in a loan is fully integrated within the regular syndication process and is suitable for companies of all sizes and for most industries. We are always open to start a dialogue and further investigate the possibilities for sustainable loans.
Making Sustainable Finance the Norm
Since first hitting the European syndicated market in the mid-2010s, sustainable loans have been gathering momentum and are now growing rapidly. They are maturing from being a niche product to a standard of the syndicated loan market. Transaction volumes in the first four months of 2021 are already comparable to the figure for the whole of 2020.
Sustainable loans in a nutshell
It is safe to say that sustainable loans are here to stay. But what exactly are sustainable loans? It is important to note that there two types of sustainable loans. The first being a green loan. This is a type of loan instrument that is created exclusively to (re)finance eligible green projects. The second type is the sustainability-linked loan. The core of this concept is to link a company’s sustainability progress to the margin paid on its bank facilities. The discount on the margin is seen as a benefit for the company. And by re-investing that discount to further improve the sustainability performance, the practical impact and positive communication value increases. Another benefit, applicable to both types of sustainable loans, is that the sustainability criteria and commitment to reporting on sustainability to external as well as internal stakeholders enhances the image a company projects of itself both to the outside world and within the organization.
By many, sustainable loans are regarded as a concept that marries the needs of environmentalism as well as the needs of capitalism. Which explains why demand has risen in recent years. Our dashboard shows a rapid increase in the percentage of sustainable loans in food & agriculture.
Combined with large numbers of non-sustainable loans reaching their maturity dates in the coming years, this offers ample room for opportunity.
But the adoption rate of sustainable loans seems to differ per continent and country even.
So we are far from reaching our ultimate goal; which is making sustainable finance the norm.
For Rabobank, sustainable loans are the embodiment of our mission Growing a Better World Together. Because of our long-term relationship with clients, Rabobank is equally equipped and driven to help our clients to jointly set the sustainability targets. Incorporating sustainability targets in a loan is fully integrated within the regular syndication process and is suitable for companies of all sizes and for most industries. We are always open to start a dialogue and further investigate the possibilities for sustainable loans.