About The Firm

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New York
350 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10017
T 212-901-1515

LONDON
17 Hill Street
London W1J 5LJ
T +44 (0)20 7318 6450

North Sea is an independent investment banking firm formed by a group of experienced investment banking and capital markets professionals to provide capital raising advisory and execution services, direct placements, client trading services.

We provide new issue advisory services in the high yield, loan syndication, mezzanine, and private equity markets, debt restructuring advisory services, direct placements of loans, mezzanine and hybrid securities and secondary trading executions for our clients.

In addition, North Sea provides expert, impartial mergers and acquisitions advice to small and middle market companies, delivered by professionals whose level of seniority and experience is unavailable from larger investment banks.

Our clients include corporations, private equity firms, banks and institutional investors. We develop innovative and state-of-the-art solutions for our clients, provide complete transactions management services and fully transparent placement or trading executions.

Our team of senior professionals in the U.S. and Europe has deep credit and capital markets experience, extensive international experience and longstanding relationships with all key market counterparties. North Sea principals also have experience in all aspects of mergers and acquisitions, including general advisory, exclusive sales, buy-side advisory, fairness opinions, takeover defense, special committees and going private.

North Sea executes securities transactions through its wholly-owned subsidiary, North Sea Securities LP. North Sea Partners LLP, its London subsidiary, is registered with the Financial Services Authority.

Strategic Acquisition

Secondary placement of a syndicated loan to a special purpose vehicle which owns forestry assets

January 2012

$20,000,000

Revolving Credit Facility



Arranger
November 2011

JV of BASF and Ineos

€480,000,000
Senior Secured Notes

Advisor
May 2011

A 3i Investment

€300,000,000
FRN
€360,000,000
Senior Secured Notes

Advisor
May 2011

An Advent Investment

£230,000,000
Senior Secured Notes
£290,000,000
Senior Notes

Advisor
February 2011

€390,000,000
Senior Secured Notes

Advisor
February 2011

€1,750,000,000 & $750,000,000
Senior Notes due 2016
€300,000,000 & $570,000,000
Senior Secured Notes due 2015

Consent to permit an asset sale, refinance certain second lien debt and reset baskets

Advisor
February 2011

An Advent Company

£425,000,000
Senior Secured Notes
£175,000,000
Senior Notes

Advisor
January 2011