Corporations

Our team of experts assist you by identifying interest rate risks, designing effective hedging strategies, efficiently executing and ensuring correct documentation – while helping you navigate the complexities of hedge accounting and valuations.

We work as an integrated member of a client’s finance team to help them select the optimal hedging strategy, execute derivative transactions at the most efficient levels, and accurately track and report their hedge positions.

Chatham’s has first hand experience with hedge accounting standard setters which allows our approach to be the most accurate and up to date. Our hedge accounting team includes former FASB staff members and draws on deep experience from each of the Big Four, dealers, and industry.

Our clients include firms across several industries such as:

Healthcare
Hospitality/Airlines
Industrial
Institutional
Investors
Retail
Telecom/Media
Utilities/Energy

Services Offered

Interest Rate Hedging
Chatham helps clients determine and execute the right interest rate hedging strategy and tools. Whether it’s with interest rate swaps, caps, collars, treasury locks, or a wide range of other risk management solutions, we partner with our clients to address a wide range of interest rate risks.   Learn More

Foreign Currency Hedging
Chatham helps clients determine and execute the right currency hedging strategy and tools. Whether with foreign currency forward contracts, options, collars, cross currency swaps, or a wide range of other risk management solutions, we partner with our clients to address a wide range of currency risks.   Learn More

Accounting Services
Chatham serves hundreds of companies worldwide achieve their hedge accounting objectives. With years of experience and deep expertise our dedicated team of accounting professionals consult on and account for thousands of hedging relationships for derivatives, bringing peace of mind to our clients and their auditors.   Learn More

Valuations
Over 1000 clients with operations around the globe rely on Chatham to provide accurate and independent valuation services for their debt and derivative holdings. Every night we value more than 20,000 trades representing dozens of different indices and multiple currencies.   Learn More

Hedge Portfolio Management
Chatham’s hedge advisory expertise is complemented by our online hedge portfolio system allowing clients to keep their hedging information in a secure, password protected “electronic filing cabinet”, easing the burden of organizing and accessing hedging data.   Learn More

Debt Management
Whether providing our clients a clear view of their debt profile from individual loan details and valuations to portfolio level reporting and analytics, FMS, Chatham’s debt management system enables clients to access their debt and derivative documentation through one user-friendly interface.   Learn More

“We consider Chatham an integral member of our corporate finance team and have been very pleased with the services they provide.”

— Keith Giger, Vice President of Finance,
HCA – Hospital Corporation of America

Case Studies

Interest Rate Risk Case Study
Learn how Chatham Financial advised a healthcare firm with over $10 billion in annual sales and a complex debt capital structure to understand the key objectives of its interest rate risk profile and the implications from an economic, legal and accounting perspective by crafting hedging alternatives that addressed the various risks. Learn More

Interest Expense & Currency Risk Case Study
Learn how Chatham Financial helped a software firm with contracts in multiple currencies, a complicated legal structure and unique debt structures understand its interest expense and foreign currency risk, and create a hedging strategy to help isolate them from that risk.
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Strategy & Accounting Case Study
Learn how Chatham Financial helped a global packaging and manufacturing company with over $7 billion in revenues and a complex capital structure understand the earnings impact of the proposed hedging strategy, as well as the ensuing accounting treatment. Learn More