Transactions
Real Estate:
- $650MM Bridge Financing - Canary Wharf, London - Represented Cargill in providing bridge financing for acquisition.
- 100MM EUR Private Placement - Eurocapital - Served as Exclusive Financial Advisor and sourced funding from the Investors
- $265MM Acquisition - Fox Plaza, Century City, CA - Acquired office building in Century City and subsequently financed and re-tenanted.
- $225MM Financing - 1350 Avenue ofthe Americas, New York, NY - Represented owner and provided financing.
- $1BB Private Placement - Credit Foncier, France - Served as Financial Advisor and sourced funding from the Investors Kerala
- Real Estate Investment Fund Began Kerala Real Estate Investment Fund; - led over $13BN in airport, hotel, and retail development in Kerala, India.
- $1BN Acquisition - Yukos Oil Corporation - Represented Davis Petroleum in the acquisition and joint venture of the second largest oil company in Russia.
- $400MM Debt Financing - Petroquimica del Atlantico, Columbia - Arranged debt financing for plants and gas pipeline.
- $800MM Debt Financing - Nitroven, SA Venezuela - Arranged debt financing through consortium for the largest chemical fertilizer in Venezuela.
- Undisclosed - International Energy Associates of Japan - Acquired as principal, a 25% interest in premiere nuclear energy consulting company.
Consumer Retail:
- Premier Brands, Cadbury Schweppes - Originated and structured the £97MM (Pounds) management buyout of Candbury Schweppes to form Premiere Brands.
- Nomura, Italy - Adviser in respect to purchase/leaseback offer to PAM, largest supermarket chain in Italy.
- European Brewery Equipment Company - Founder of European Brewery Equipment Company, a large brewery equipment importer.
- $75MM Acquisition - Times Square Stores - As principal, acquired 23 chain stores located in New York, consisting of $25MM in sales and 5MM in square feet. Partners included the Pritzker family of Chicago and the Schmidt Family of Germany.
- Acquisition - Royce Union Bicycles - As principal, acquired well known manufacturer of bicycles with sales exceeding 30MM.
- Finders-Keepers - As principal, acquired NY based 14 store chain of women's specialty stores with sales in excess of $25MM. Subsequently sold to Strawberries.
- Yanbu II Saudi Arabia Dredging Project - Provided $600MM financing and bonding facilities for Belgium-Dutch consortium performing dredging project.
- Saudi-Bahrain Causeway, Thames Floodgates - Provided financing and bonding facilities for major Danish construction &engineering companies involved in the design and construction for the above projects and turnkey projects in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf.
- Aalborg Vaerft - Structured Danish $700MM ship finance transactions for Aalborg Vaerft for new orders from Carnival Cruise.
Communications & Media:
- Broadcast.com - Coordinated merger and subsequent IPO ofBroadcast.com
- Mydna.com - First Wall Street served as principal and management, eventually selling stake to Steve Case of AOL to form Revolution Health.
- Life Settlement Internet-Based Portal - Development of an Internet-based portal designed to facilitate the purchase of investors of life settlements in compliance with U.S. federal and state laws.
- Y2K Risk Insurance Product - Development of an insurance product designed to insure against Y2K risk, underwritten by certain Lloyds of London syndicates.
- $130MM Acquisition - Zenith Laboratories, Inc. - Represented investor group in the bankruptcy and acquisition of a controlling interest in the Debtor.
- $75MM Recapitalization - Minacs, Canada - FWS acted as a strategic and financial advisor to Minacs Worldwide, Canada's largest publicly traded business processing outsourcing company. FWS successfully advised the company on a $75MM recapitalization comprised of a $35MM senior debt facility and a $40MM subordinated term loan.
- Starcum Systems BVI - Provided seed funding to high-tech asset security company.
$225m Refinancing 1350 Ave of the Americas, NY
FWS Helped the project sponsor advert imminent foreclosure by securing a new debt package
