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Syndication is generally initiated by the grant of a mandate by the borrower to the arranging bank(s) or ‘lead managers’ setting out the financial terms of the proposed loan. The financial terms are set out in a “term sheet” which states the amount, term of the loan, repayment schedule, interest margin, fees any special terms, and a ...
In investment banking, an arranger is a provider of funds in the syndication of a debt. They are entitled to syndicate the loan or bond issue, and may be referred to as the "lead underwriter". This is because this entity bears the risk of being able to sell the underlying securities/debt or the cost of holding it on its books until such time in ...
The lead arranger, or the mandated lead arranger (MLA), is the investment bank or underwriter firm that facilitates and leads a group of investors in a syndicated loan for major financing. The lead arranger assigns parts of the new issue to other underwriters for placement, and usually takes the largest part itself.
The lead bank retains a minority amount of highest quality tranche of the loan while usually maintaining "agent" responsibilities representing the interests of the syndicate of CLOs as well as servicing the loan payments to the syndicate (though the lead bank can designate another bank to assume the agent bank role upon syndication closing).
A syndicate can be started by an individual, angel investor, or venture capitalist. An individual who wants to form a syndicate creates an investment strategy and discloses it on a crowdfunding platform. Other investors can choose to back the individual, who is the leader.
The advent of private equity in the 1970s had not initially seen large scale bank or credit entity debt as a critical structural component, with early buyout practitioners such as Nicholas C. Forstmann placing emphasis on equity investment and a close, collaborative relationship with a company's management. [1]
Banks that buy loan participations share in the profits of the lead bank. If a lending institution isn't doing much business on its own, or is in a slow market, it can team up with a profitable "lead bank" in a healthier market to generate more lending income. Buying participation loans is a way for banks to diversify their assets.
When more than one bookrunner manages a security issuance, the parties are referred to as "joint bookrunners", [2] or a "multi-bookrunner syndicate". [3] [4] The bank that runs the books is the closest one to the issuer and controls the allocations of shares to investors, holding significant discretion in doing so, which places the bookrunner ...