The Americas Specialty Group provides coverage to European corporates who have, or intend to have, business activity in those parts of North, Central and South America where the Scotiabank Group has significant and unique capabilities. The team also covers corporates based in the Americas, who are active in Europe. The Americas Group covers a variety of industry sectors through this mandate and has particular capabilities in the Aerospace sector.

Our London team works closely with other teams and industry specialists throughout the Scotiabank Group to provide innovative financial solutions to these companies, using the expertise and resources of the entire Scotiabank Group network.

Services include:

• Corporate and syndicated loan underwriting;
• Arranging and providing structured and project based finance;
• Pre and post-completion acquisition finance;
• Lease financing (finance leases, synthetic operating leases and equity investments in synthetic and leveraged leases);
• High yield debt underwriting;
• Trading and research;
• Cash management;
• Currency, interest rate and credit default risk hedging instruments;
• Defeasance;
• Securitization

We also offer a full range of other ancillary products through our strong global network of branches and subsidiaries.

For further information please contact:

William Swords
Managing Director, The Americas
(44-20) 7826-5795
william_swords@scotiacapital.com