Why Fenchurch

Pure Advice

We have a unique model: providing expert strategic and corporate finance advice to clients in the complex, regulated financial services sector. This is our only business.

Senior Engagement

Our team is led by senior bankers who have decades of experience and are “hands-on” in their approach with a relentless focus on meeting our clients’ objectives.

Connectivity in Financial Services

Financial services is becoming increasingly inter-connected. Our expertise across all financial services sectors allows us to have a multi-dimensional approach and deliver creative yet realistic solutions for our clients. Our well-connected senior bankers and industrial-scale capabilities allow us to introduce relevant ideas and opportunities at an early stage.

Complex Problem Solving

Our professionals are amongst the brightest and most experienced in the industry and thrive on providing expert perspectives to help clients address the most complex strategic issues. We are deeply analytical and fact based, supporting our judgement and advice with rigorous financial analysis.

Proactive, Pragmatic and Discreet

Our inquisitive nature means that we support our clients to challenge the industrial, strategic, financial, operational and regulatory parameters involved in each assignment. We support clients in concluding not to undertake transactions as well as in proceeding. Discretion is at the heart of our business, enabling our clients to maximise tactical and commercial advantage.

Our Clients

We operate a resolutely client-led business model, built around providing high quality advice and execution to the largest, most sophisticated financial institutions and sponsors.

Coverage Across Financial Services Sub-Sectors

We deliver exceptional market insight, relationships and access across the financial services industry.

Insurance

Asset & Wealth Management

Banking & Diversified Financials

Financial Sponsors

A Complete Advisory Offering

Our combination of deep expertise across financial services and accomplished senior team, enables us to provide a full spectrum of expert advice to clients, across capital markets, transaction-related advice and shareholder matters.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Supporting long-term clients with expert independent advice, quality execution and sector connectivity.

Sell-side

Record of achieving sector high watermarks.

Buy-side

Sector connectivity / expertise enables the provision of thoughtful evaluation of targets, to initiate discussions and to provide appropriate financial and structuring advice.

Mergers

Highly experienced in advising on complex mergers.

Capital Markets

Providing expert advice across the capital structure, including equity and debt, in public and private markets.

Panel Experts

Highly experienced in providing Takeover Code advice.

Public market equity issuance

Experienced in advising on a broad spectrum of transaction structures including rights issues, placing & open offers and IPOs.

Private capital

Significant expertise in private equity fundraising, including relationships with global private equity, pension funds and other permanent capital investors.

Capital structuring

Broader considerations such as regulatory capital and liquidity requirements, shareholder / regulator focus, implications for dividends and other capital distributions.

Debt

Experienced adviser on a transactional and non-transactional basis on appropriateness of different forms of debt within the capital structure, working alongside underwriting / issuance banks to ensure the best execution for our clients.

Shareholder Matters

Acting as retained public markets and defence advisor for blue-chip listed financial services clients.

Equity story communication

Working alongside your incumbent investor relations advisers to position the equity story at each set of your results / investor days and on transactions.

Defence

Extensive experience in advising listed companies regarding unsolicited approaches.

Activism

The Fenchurch team has advised clients on some of the most high-profile activism defences.

Government / regulator interactions

In an evolving regulatory and governance environment it is important to ensure that the broader topics stakeholders are focused on are also addressed.

Significant Recent Transactions

Fenchurch has built a reputation as the long-term trusted adviser to blue-chip clients across the financial services industry, having advised on some of the highest profile and most complex transactions of the last 20 years.

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