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At ICONIC, we bring together top-tier talent found at the intersection of geography, industry knowledge and substantive Project Finance, Corporate and Investment expertise.
Connecting you to more Professionals and Services in more locations reflects how we perceive globalization in terms of Financing and Investments —we view our talents as portals that deliver the financing expertise and insights you need, from around the corner and around the world.
We work with you to assemble a team of Finance Experts customized to your industry, your region and your business needs.
Our Project, Energy and Infrastructure Finance group is the leading choice for the financing and development of the world’s most critical and complex projects. With more than 70 dedicated professionals worldwide, we’re built for efficient collaboration to meet the demands of the most challenging cross-border deals.
From a first-of-its-kind toll road in India, to a 5G network build-out in Latin America to the most powerful wind and solar farms in the Middle East, we’ve had a hand in many of the most significant energy and infrastructure projects.
Our transactions span an array of industries, including oil and gas, petrochemicals, renewables, power and energy, infrastructure, telecommunications, space and satellite, waste disposal and recycling, mining and metals, natural resources, pulp and paper, and transportation, from ports and airports, to shipping.
The global maritime industry tends to feel demoralized or pessimistic about the oversupply of new ships, unprecedented volatility in freight rates and vessel values, economic uncertainty, risk of piracy, increasing regulation and environmental concerns.
So many game-changing factors heavily impacting financing opportunities in the maritime industry and so many ship owners do not believe they can succeed in tackling such challenges.
Ship owners, like any businesses, require equity financing to, inter alia, provide first loss support to debt investors. However, ship owners are normally highly leveraged and, while there is no strict rule, debt investors generally require only around 25% of total capital to be in the form of equity, with the balance of the total capital requirement coming from various debt instruments.
At the same time, capital market investors such as insurers, specialist fund managers, pension funds and sovereign wealth funds have increased their capacity to invest in shipping finance. Insurance companies and pension funds are, in fact, ‘natural’ investors in similar capital assets, since the long maturity and fixed rate nature of their investments are a good match to their long-term liabilities.
If they get involved in the shipping finance agenda, they can change the conversation around key decisions and provide differentiated value.
Ship owners that are able to critically assess the situation can gain access to a greater diversity of finance sources. Those who don’t know enough about their organization or the external market will be inclined to take the path of least resistance, leading to defensive and unsuitable actions.
Our ICONIC shipping finance team can unlock significant value for the ship owners by delivering insight, guiding the business in realizing the power of its values and driving sources of finance.
Widely recognized as a leading Corporate Finance Advisor, ICONIC has long-standing relationships with capital providers including commercial banks and other senior credit providers, insurance funds, asset managers, and mezzanine fund investors.
In addition, through our comprehensive financial sponsors coverage, we provide ready access to equity investors. Few Corporate Finance Advisors maintain the breadth of relationships and capital markets intelligence that we do.
EVERYTHING WE CAN DO
We help corporate, private equity, governments, sovereign wealth funds, private and family businesses, and educational institutions with their key financial issues. From portfolio review and capital allocation processes to financial planning analytics and decision support, we have the people, analytics and tools to help you better allocate capital.
Keeping up with core financial activities while looking well beyond their traditional scope is most often than not challenging for our Business Partners, but a strong Corporate Finance function can be the game changer.
Such a robust function can lead the Corporate Finance activities, freeing the organization to get creative, deliver insight and guide the enterprise in realizing the power of its values.
Our ICONIC Teams help you manage your risk/return trade-offs to support you with better decision-making around financing and capital efficiency.
We offer deep insights to help you gain perspective into:
How do I know I have the right asset mix?
How do I know I am funding the right projects?
How do I predict my future financial performance?
How can my investment and tax strategy help futureproof my business?
How do I best fund my capital investment decisions?
How can I increase investor confidence?
ICONIC is an independent, global Investment Banking Advisor with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, financial restructuring, and valuation. We provide objective investment banking services and we are among the leading trusted advisors and financiers to our Business Partners, which include corporations, financial institutions, financial sponsors, governments and public authorities and boards of directors and special committees.
As an independent advisory practice we are not part of a large financial institutions as are some investment banks. However, we often work with investment banks to improve deal viability and to “pressure test” underlying investment theses.
When we’re involved, the probability of deal execution is increased. Because we focus on a handful of industries that we know well, ICONIC delivers much better advice to Business Partners, unlike generalist bankers.
EVERYTHING WE CAN DO
ICONIC Investment Banking Teams are comprised of dedicated industry professionals with decades of domain expertise. We work closely with you to understand your goals and challenges, crafting tailored solutions to help meet strategic objectives.
Our global structure allows us to better serve the strategic and financing needs of our Business Partners across all geographies and industries.
NOT JUST CLIENTS
❂ Unlike the widespread, yet faceless Client Approach, we at ICONIC tend to foster the delivery of our services towards «Business Partners». Each of our Business Partner has specific needs and requests that should be acknowledged so that we eventually become a valuable extension to their organization.
❂ With our established and comprehensive knowledge of practices, industries, markets and our worldwide reach, ICONIC offers the best and most bespoke products, services, and solutions that can effectively and efficiently be tailored to the specific requirements of any potential Business Partner.
™PHYLUMS OF SERVICES
Phylum is a term from the Greek phylon (φῦλον, “race, stock”), related to phyle (φυλή, “tribe, clan”).
These are groups of inter-related Corporate, Business and Project Finance offerings. Through the wide range of our two wholly-owned ™Phylums of Services we help organizations capitalize on investment opportunities.
We help them fulfill regulatory requirements, keep investors informed and meet stakeholder needs. And in a fast-changing world, we give them the support they need to be effective today and create long-term growth for tomorrow. Wherever we operate, we help Business Partners address their toughest challenges, so their businesses are fit for investment attractiveness.
❂ By deploying the first Phylum of Project Finance & Investment Banking Services we advise Business Partners on government, national and private large-scale infrastructure projects. From project evaluation to procurement, financial close, construction and operations ICONIC helps entities strategically manage capital and transactions, asset sales and divestments.
❂ Our second ™Phylum of Services ranges from internal growth to advanced M&A deals in te form of Enterprise Optimization Services. EOS incorporate advanced mathematics, established analytics, proven experience, unspoken intuition and applied techniques that drive the appropriate scale of operation.
Being able to focus on organizational, financial, operational and transaction strategy, ICONIC can accelerate value creation. In a rapidly evolving, gradually transforming and redefined business environment, we support knowledge capital sharing across borders, help develop innovative business deals and marketable products, and support organizations to reinvent themselves for their brightest future. Our global network and influence, can help you overcome business hurdles and develop an optimal environment.
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It’s our mandate to understand, advise on and solve the complexities involved in transactions, financing and strategies at the interface between investors and investees.
Whether it’s raising funding for projects or procuring private sector partners for public sector entities, we deliver solutions that fund innovation, improve services, and regenerate communities.
With an extensive track record spanning more than three decades of providing authoritative, innovative advice on a wide range of transactions worldwide, our global experience and local knowledge enable ICONIC to deliver the integrated strategies and services our Business Partners require.
We work with Institutional Investors, Lending Institutions, Governments and Private Organizations in shaping their strategies, developing frameworks and helping them to implement their vision.
We reconcile investors’ need for profit with the requirements for risk mitigation.
As an independent adviser, we engineer a truly competitive process. And when advising investees, we help them to develop structures that allow them to access local and international funds.