Today, SG CIB employs some 190 staff in Spain in Madrid and Barcelona.

SG CIB is a leading Corporate & Investment Bank in Spain in its three key areas of focus: Euro Capital Markets (debt and equity), Structured Finance and Derivatives, offering financial solutions to its clients through the following products:

- Euro capital markets: Bonds issues, Covered Bonds, Securitizations, Syndicated Loans, Equity capital markets, Equity Linked (Convertible Bonds), Debt Capital Markets, Optimization & debt advisory, and Structured credits.

- Derivatives. Equity derivatives (warrants), structured products, flow derivatives; Interest rates and Credit derivatives, Foreign exchange & Treasury.

- Structured finance, Export Finance, Project Finance, Asset Finance, Leveraged Finance, Acquisition Finance and Real Estate Finance

SG CIB also offers M&A and brokerage services.

Combining innovation, quality of execution and complete local teams, SG CIB offers value-added integrated financial solutions to corporates, financial institutions and investors. In Spain, SG CIB has built strong relationships and provides financial solutions to large and medium sized corporates, banks & financial institutions, institutional investors, state and the local government.

All these qualities have driven SG CIB in Spain to obtain impressive results, multiplying by 4 its results from 2001 to 2006. Spain is a key country in the SG CIB global strategy and we are one of the best performing European countries.

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