Investment Banking

Investment
Banking

About Investment Banking

Our team of experienced investment bankers focuses on building long-term relationships with corporates, investors, and financial sponsors who can look to us for advice on how to support their business objectives through all market cycles.

We provide a wide breadth of products and services, including equity and debt capital markets and advisory, as well as special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), convertible notes, and ATM offerings. With access to a broad institutional investor base, our 200-person salesforce can match differentiated demand across all major global markets.

Guided by a growth mindset, we’ve made significant investments in our human capital and have built a powerhouse team, including across the healthcare and technology sectors. With their specialized expertise, Cantor can provide bulge-bracket capabilities with a personalized experience that always puts our clients first.

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Transactions сompleted since 2016

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At a Glance

Our Capabilities

Equity Capital Markets

Our expanding Equity Capital Markets (ECM) practice provides a full range of capital markets capabilities, including:

Initial public offerings (IPOs)
Confidentially marketed public offerings (CMPOs)
Marketed follow-on offerings
Registered direct transactions (RDs)
Private investment in public equity (PIPEs)
Bought deals

With a team of more than 200 equity sales and trading professionals spanning trading hubs in New York, London, and Hong Kong, we give our clients access to more than 7,000 institutional investor accounts. Cantor combines bulge bracket distribution capabilities with connectivity to middle market institutional investors to provide differentiated demand.

ATMs

We are a leader in the ATM market, with programs filed in healthcare, technology, metals and mining, crypto, closed-end-funds, and REITs. Our team has executed more ATM offerings than any other broker dealer since 2001, maintaining a top-three ranking in healthcare and metals and mining, and we continue to expand our business in the technology sector. As one of the early pioneers in the ATM market, our experience and expertise have consistently helped our clients raise the capital they need on the terms they want.

Mergers & Acquisitions

We are an independent, trusted global M&A advisor with deep sector expertise, insights, and execution capabilities. We partner with clients across a wide range of advisory services, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, strategic partnerships, spin-offs, joint ventures, fairness opinions, and shareholder advisory.

Our team of dedicated professionals has a significant track record of providing exceptional results for our clients. Management teams and Boards look to us for our thoughtful, tailored advice when navigating their most important strategic decisions.

Debt Capital Markets

Cantor’s debt advisory team has extensive experience executing financings across a range of different situations and structures and can customize its approach depending on the borrower’s needs. Our network of long-standing relationships with capital providers, combined with our deep sector expertise within healthcare and technology, sets us apart and uniquely positions us to help our clients raise non-dilutive capital in any market condition.

Our debt advisory team works hand in hand with our industry bankers to deliver a streamlined experience, and our high-touch approach provides our clients with optimal transaction structuring and execution.

Debt Structures

Venture debt
Structured debt
Royalty financing
Product/clinical trial finance
Asset-based loans
Unitranche loans
Second-lien/mezzanine
Preferred equity

Situations

Growth capital
R&D/product finance
Acquisition financing
Refinancing
Dividend recap
Management buyout
Special situations financing

SPACs

Cantor’s market-leading special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) practice provides a comprehensive suite of advisory and capital raising solutions for SPAC sponsors and private companies seeking to go public. Leveraging one of the largest and most experienced teams on Wall Street, we have demonstrated an unwavering commitment to clients across market cycles and regulatory environments. With the global reach and relationships of a money center bank and the agility of a boutique, Cantor remains at the forefront of developing innovative structures and approaches that enhance the appeal of SPACs for both private companies and investors.

Convertibles

Our award-winning convertibles practice is a leader in global convertibles issuance, boasting more than 25 years of market experience. We’ve helped borrowers raise more than $125 billion of equity-linked capital through both convertible bond and convertible preferred offerings.

With access to a wide network of institutional investors, we help companies raise funds with nondilutive solutions, while also providing greater funding flexibility at a lower cost than traditional debt markets.

Our Sectors

With deep sector knowledge and strong buy-side relationships, Cantor provides a full suite of investment banking services to healthcare businesses, supporting them through key strategic decisions in all market conditions. The team’s key focus areas include biotech, medical devices, healthcare services/facilities, pharmacy services, and healthcare IT.

Recent Transactions

Our award-winning global power, energy transition and infrastructure team has more than 20 years of experience advising a broad range of businesses on M&A, capital raising, project financing, and more. The team focuses on renewable and conventional power businesses and projects, companies across the energy transition value chain, as well as a diverse range of infrastructure businesses and projects spanning transport, telecoms, and utilities.

Recent Transactions

Our global technology team is the fastest growing on our investment banking platform, offering M&A, ECM, private placement, and debt advisory capabilities to companies across a wide array of technology sub-sectors, including software, industrial technologies, electronics, internet and digital media, tech-enabled services, and fintech. With deep domain expertise, our team ensures both early stage and established tech companies have the support they need.

Recent Transactions

With more than 25 years of experience, the team provides a number of services across financial advisory, equity capital markets, equity-linked capital markets, and debt capital markets with a focus on various commodities, including precious metals, base metals, uranium, battery materials, and other specialty metals and minerals. The team supports companies from exploration through production and is also active across numerous publicly traded physical commodity funds. The team has strong expertise in cross-border transactions, and regularly works with issuers listed in the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia.

Recent Transactions