Global Syndicated & Leveraged Platform and Capabilities
Global Sponsor Coverage and Leveraged Platform Overview NORTH AMERICA Sponsor Coverage Canada: Andrew Federer U.S.: Joe Jabes, David Daniels & John Sorice Leveraged Blair Fleming Origination/Structuring Jim Wolfe Syndication/Distribution Miguel Roman High Yield Capital Markets Nick Daifotis EUROPE Sponsor Coverage & Leveraged Sponsor Coverage and Origination/Structuring Nick Atkinson Paul Brady John Williams Syndication/ Distribution Warrick Booth 1
RBC Leveraged Capabilities RBC has one of the Fastest Growing Leveraged Platforms on Wall Street 60 dedicated leveraged finance, capital markets, sales & trading professionals in New York, London and Toronto Global Platform Highly experienced team providing senior level attention throughout transaction process Closely aligned with industry bankers to consistently deliver industry and product expertise One-Stop Balance Sheet Solutions Integrated team providing one-stop financing solutions across capital structure including leveraged loans, bridge loans, high yield and mezzanine debt Broad based capabilities enable firm to develop creative capital structure solutions to accomplish issuers strategic objectives Proven Distribution Capabilities Track record of successfully executing deals in challenging market environments Very strong relationships with traditional and non-traditional investor universe Dedicated sector-focused high yield research Willingness to Aggressively Commit Capital $621 billion in total assets 5th largest bank in North America One of the most active leveraged finance capital providers post-correction Actively providing fully underwritten capital commitments to support corporate acquisitions and LBO s 2
Global Leveraged Platform Product Offering and Capabilities Product Offering Capabilities 1 ST Lien High Yield Bonds Mezzanine Global Sponsor Coverage North America and Europe 2 nd Lien Global Leveraged Bridge Origination / Structuring of Credit North America and Europe Distribution Global Sales Force North America and Europe ABL Private Placements Debtor-In- Possession Structures Credit Trading and Research North America 3
Recent Leveraged Initiatives Overall Platform Initiative: Global origination, structuring and execution of leveraged loans, bridge loans, and high-yield offerings for corporations and financial sponsors in connection with leveraged buyouts, acquisitions, refinancings and recapitalizations Recent Initiatives to Bolster the Platform New U.K. Leveraged Team Recently announced the creation of a new European Leveraged business Hired a team of 15 professionals, all of whom joined from CIBC The team focuses on the origination and distribution of local and cross-border financing transactions for financial sponsors with operations in Europe Expansion of North American Leveraged Recently hired Jim Wolfe as head of U.S. Leveraged Wolfe spent 15 years with Bear Stearns, most recently as senior managing director in leveraged finance Wolfe will partner with Miguel Roman, U.S. head of global syndicated finance, and Nick Daifotis, head of high-yield capital markets, to continue to drive growth in the origination and distribution of leveraged finance transactions in the U.S. market Build-Out of Secondary Sales, Trading and Research Platform Recently hired Paul Zingarini as Head of Secondary Loan Trading and Richard Rothschild as a within the Global Syndicated sales group Both previously worked at Citigroup Recently hired Adam Leight and Jeff Walsh in high yield trading and research, respectively 4
Primary Contacts Overall Group Heads Blair Fleming Nick Daifotis, Global Head, Group Head Syndicated & Leveraged High Yield Capital Markets Tel: +1 416-842-6672 Tel: +1 212-618-2201 Syndicated Distribution U.S. Miguel Roman Head of U.S. Syndicated Tel: +1 212-858-8348 Europe Warrick Booth Co-Head of European Syndicated Tel: +44 20-7002-2052 Global Leveraged Leveraged Origination U.S. Jim Wolfe Head of U.S. Leveraged Tel: +1 212-618-3317 Europe Nick Atkinson Head of European Leveraged Tel: +44 20-7002-2049 Sponsor Coverage Andrew Federer Joe Jabes David Daniels John Sorice, Head, Co-Head, Co-Head Canadian Sponsor Coverage U.S. Sponsor Coverage U.S. Sponsor Coverage U.S. Sponsor Coverage Tel: +1 416-842-7741 Tel: +1 212-428-6959 Tel: +1 212-437-1935 Tel: +1 212-858-7063 5