Seabury Group - Investment Banking & Advisory Services

Seabury Group’s senior investment bankers provide board-level advice and access and have ongoing dialogue with providers of both equity and debt financing. Seabury professionals have built these relationships over years, through advisory and execution, both at the Seabury Group and at major Wall Street firms.

Seabury Group has advised more than 100 companies worldwide across a broad spectrum of credits and complex transactions. Seabury provides advisory services to companies and their shareholders (Institutional Investors, Venture Capital firms, and Growth Equity Funds) in the following industries:

Aviation

Aerospace

Maritime

The services provided by this group include:

Sell-side M&A

Buy-side M&A

Private placement of equity and debt

Strategic financial advice

Restructuring advice

Aviation:

Seabury’s investment bankers have unparalleled aviation advisory and capital raising experience:

- More than $100 billion in capital structured or restructured.

- Significant strategic activity involving nearly all US and many non-US airlines:

Air Canada : Restructured C$13 billion debt and lease obligations; raised C$1.1 billion of new equity; advised on $5 billion fleet order for 32 Boeing wide-body aircraft and options on up to 64 Boeing aircraft (2003-2006)
America West Airlines : Effectuated out-of-court restructuring of over $710 million of aircraft debt and lease obligations, structured issuance of $120 million of convertible long-term notes, thereby qualifying AWA for $425 million ATSB loan (2001-2002)
ATA : M&A advisor on ATA’s acquisition of World Airways
Avianca : Restructured $274 million of financial obligations (first non-US company to restructure under the US Chapter 11 process); assisted management in effectuating operational and financial turnaround, raised $63 million of exit equity financing (2003-2005)
Continental Airlines : Effectuated out-of-court reorganization, restructuring several billions of dollars of debt, lease and aircraft purchase obligations and raising $525 million of new liquidity (1995)
Northwest Airlines : Restructured $13.5 billion of debt and lease obligations; raised $750 million of new equity commitments; structured $1.225 billion DIP financing consisting of a $175 million revolver and a $1.05 billion 6-year term loan; M&A advisor on Mesaba Airlines acquisition (2005-2007)
US Airways : M&A advisor on merger with America West Holdings and arranged $867 million of equity to fund acquisition of AWA, raised another $1.3 billion via additional financing/asset sales; restructured over $10 billion of debt and lease obligations (2002-2005)

Aerospace:

Seabury’s investment bankers, consultants and industry experts bring to Aerospace players an unparalleled and coherent set of skills to address the challenges facing Aerospace companies. Seabury provides expertise and experience in

Strategic advisory
Capital raising
Cash management
Supply chain management
M&A, including operational integration
Operational improvement
Company turnaround and restructuring

These skills, along with exceptional insight into the Aviation industry environment and trends, make Seabury Aerospace the perfect complement to Aerospace management teams that strive for their companies’ success.

Maritime Services:

Based out of Seabury’s Stamford, CT offices, the team of investment bankers dedicated to serving the maritime and marine services sectors brings years of experience in the maritime industry. This team maintains longstanding relationships with the world's leading shipping companies and has also represented a cadre of financial investors in transportation transactions, many of whom are interested in owning maritime assets that are chartered-in to a company with an attractive underlying credit profile.

Seabury provides the following services to the maritime industry:

Strategic and M&A strategic advisory services
Private placement of both debt and equity
Financing for vessel acquisition programs
Operating and finance lease advisory services
Sale & purchase advisory services
Business plan advisory services
Operational improvement services

Seabury’s range of clients include the complete spectrum of companies within the maritime services sector: tankers, dry bulk operators, container shipping, ocean freight logistics, inland marine, offshore oilfield services and FPSOs, LNG/LPG companies, ship brokers, ferries and cruise operators.

Transportation
Travel and Travel Technology
Real Estate
Insurance