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Our Story & Mission
To provide specialized knowledge such as risk solutions to the general public and SMEs, beyond those multi-national, billion-dollar companies that global investment banks serve
Our Story
Our Story
We are a team of banking professionals.
Throughout our careers, we have worked at top-notch global investment banks.
(We say "top-notch," not out of silly ego but to state our basic credentials.)
While we were at investment banks, we used to provide our services completely free of charge to friends and acquaintances in our free time. We were joyous when facilitating transactions meaningful to our clients, the society, and other stakeholders.
A few ways that we had facilitated transactional needs were to provide fair pricing and valuation for various instruments, to tap the market for checking demand and marketability in Korea, to arrange a number of meetings with financial institutions for non-Korean couterparts seeking opportunities in Korea, and to liason with third parties, such as law firms, accounting firms, and regulators.
Over the past decades, we have come to realization that our expertise benefits clientele much broader than a small fraction of companies in the market that those investment banks serve - the small fraction, which tends to be multi-billion, multi-national, publicly listed, or state-owned enterprises.
We are here to help the broader public,
to empower them with the same level of expertise,
and to guide them to benefit from similiar risk solutions as multi-national companies.
Our mission
Our mission
To provide specialized risk solutions to the broader public.
Such specialized knowledge as hedging risks, pricing, and valuation.
Note that even a private equity firm with an AUM of USD 1bn often does not have a compatible internal team dedicated to hedging risks in their own investments. Deals prepared by the first-tier banks can properly hedge their own risks internally, but it surprises us that knowledge and practice are inadequate even at second-tier global banks. We would like to narrow that gap for both medium-sized financial institutions and corporates.
Serving as an expert witness in court in case you are in legal disputes with your money managers or financial institutions.
It is our commitment to serve the general public - ranging from an individual investor to a private equity fund and from a family office to regional players - high quality hedging solutions in consideration of their deals and their access to the capital market.
For valuation and pricing services, for instance, please check out our services page.
To help non-resident companies to penetrate into the Korean financial markets.
Provide local contacts and arrange meetings with financial institutions buy-side and sell-side.
Facilitate your transactional needs with business partners that you may need such as local law firms, accounting firms, other service providers, and regulators. Depending on your deal and company's size, your selection can be optimized.
Arrange meetings for non-Korean funds for their marketing campaigns. Take your products to the buy-side that can actually consider your product, not to those whom you may have heard of.
For those who are relatively new to the Korean market, we have on the behalf of the corporate clients performed the following:
Reviewed their financial products for marketability in KR;
Recommended whom to meet in consideration of product characteristics and suitability;
Arranged meetings and often accompanied them;
Advised how to approach those prospective clients, how to structure deals, how to hedge, which hedging instruments to use, and which counterparties are more appropriate for them for their hedging;
Priced hedging trades and, upon request, negotiated the price on their behalf;
Referred them to other third parties to fulfill their transactional needs; and,
Guided them in many other ways.
Get in touch with us for discussion if you have marketing needs.
We have done firsthand a number of cross-boarder transactions and trades involving multiple currencies and interest rates. Those transactions include M&A deal, ABS involving offshore SPVs, bond issuance, secondary market, alternative investments, offshore funds, etc.
Our expertise in Global Markets and providing risk solutions are imperative in the deal structuring.
We have often advised on behalf of our clients their lawfirms such as Linklaters and other multinational law firms in the documentation stage when they they drafted for deals.
We can get involved in any stage of your transactions, the earlier the better.
Over the years, what we have observed is that most of the specialists with expertise in private equity or investment often lack of in-depth knowledge in hedging currency risks and other market risks.
As a result, they rely heavily on thier swap providers for a hefty fees.
We, at Eytan Bach, would like to improve this segment.
Consult with us your pending transactions involving currency or interest rate risks. We are here to help.
Another observance over the decades is that at the first tier banks, things all go smoothly.
However, at the second-tier or regional banks or in any other minor league, there are many hiccups - completely unnecessary, unprofessional, and unhoumous.
Those inexperienced hedges often lead to ineffieciecies and operational burdens down the road. They bring about high overhead costs in one way or another.
They range from higher execution prices to payment failures (delays, etc.) and also from avoidable extra reportings resulting from the lack of experience to having to restructure the transaction after some time.
In conclusion, by making our sevices available for broader cliente, we contribute to
"equality in hedging practices."
We help clients with the highest-quality risk solutions only available to the small number of companies such as multi-billion MNCs.
For hedging solutions, our fees are reasonable: a fixed fee at the beginning (USD 20-150K per deal) and a tiny fee ongoing (e.g. 2-8bps p.a.) until the end of the tenor.
This reasonable fee will save you much more on your execution price and saves headaches after execution until your capital returns back to you in the end. We cooperate with you just as you would collaborate with an internal department.
Get in touch with us with your next transaction for consultaion.
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