Baird Global Investment Banking’s Capital Structure Advisory group provides creative advice to clients facing complex balance sheet issues. We partner with Baird’s industry, financial sponsor and private capital markets bankers, enhancing our ability to serve the full spectrum of our clients' advisory needs.

We provide independent, unbiased advice informed by rigorous analyses and an evaluation of a comprehensive set of available alternatives, which may include:

  • Complex debt and equity financings in a stressed or distressed situation
  • Challenging creditor negotiations
  • Liability management exercises, including amend and extend, debt exchanges and repurchases
  • Buy-side and sell-side M&A transactions, both in-court and out-of-court
  • Out-of-court balance sheet recapitalizations
  • Reorganization under a chapter 11
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Capital Structure Advisory Quarterly

Key trends in the credit markets and perspectives on the capital structure environment.

Additional Transactions


Over their careers, our bankers have led multiple market-defining transactions in all major sectors of the economy.

*Transaction completed at another firm.

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