Many companies reach a stage on their business journey where additional funding and support is needed to enable further growth. Whether it's for bridging loans, investing, expanding or restructuring, companies can require substantial amounts of capital to carry out their strategic plans. UniCredit's CIB Corporate Structured Finance (CSF) team provides strategic advice and structured financing solutions to ensure a successful deal, no matter how complex, including steering the negotiation process with both internal and external stakeholders.

As companies grow, pursuing new and more ambitious plans, they may look to diversify their funding sources beyond banks, extend their maturity profile or refinance their existing debt. UniCredit CIB offers a number of market-leading Debt Capital Markets (DCM) solutions to help with this - including EUR-denominated private placements, Asset & Liability Management support, and Corporate and Public Sector bonds, where we consistently claim top league table positions.

Companies looking to pursue expansion plans without incurring debt and repayment costs will likely turn to equity in order to fund their development. The UniCredit CIB Equity Capital Markets (ECM) team offers a range of solutions from Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) and Convertible and Exchangeable Bonds to a wide range of derivative solutions for building, hedging and selling third-party participations. Thanks to our strategic alliance with Kepler Cheuvreux, we have one of the largest pan-European equity distributions platforms.

Of course, some funding needs are more specific, and UniCredit also has a comprehensive team of specialists that cover the more complex and idiosyncratic fields, including infrastructure and power project finance, natural resources, structured trade and export finance and strategic and securitisation portfolios.

Investors, companies, sovereigns, supranationals and agencies around the world are increasingly striving for sustainable growth and specialised sustainable financing to support their ambitions. UniCredit's dedicated Sustainable Finance Advisory (SFA) team offers best-in class advisory and solutions to meet the increasing demand on Socially Responsible Investment (SRI).