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Chatham Financial is a valued advisor to a wide array of real estate companies and investors. Our client base is comprised of private developers, REITs, institutional real estate funds, debt funds, and pension funds of all sizes. With nearly 20 years of service in the real estate market, Chatham brings a powerful combination of capital market skills to meet our real estate client’s needs in the area of derivatives and debt advisory and has become the largest independent, and most often referred advisor for derivatives expertise
Derivatives Expertise – We serve as exclusive hedging advisor to approximately 75% of all public real estate companies measured by debt amount, including 9 of the 10 largest US public real estate companies. Our teams of experts assists in identifying interest rate and currency risks, designing effective hedging strategies, efficiently executing them and ensuring they are appropriately documented – while helping you navigate the accounting complexities of FAS133. The ongoing maintenance of your derivatives activity is done online to manage all your documentation and valuations of your hedge portfolio.
Debt Expertise – The Chatham Capital Advisory team assists in arranging new debt financing or in assisting in the workout of existing debt. Chatham Capital Advisors provides tailored solutions for your debt needs while financing. Chatham also provides a best in class defeasance service to efficiently “prepay” a CMBS loan and get a property released from the securitization. All of your debt can be managed by our debt management software system, FMS (Financial Management System).
“By providing clear and understandable guidance to the complex world of derivative products, Chatham eases the burden of interest and currency rate risk management while ensuring efficient market execution for the hedging strategy.”
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Capital Advisory
From capital raising and corporate advisory to restructuring/bankruptcy, Chatham Capital Advisors delivers unbiased, strategic and actionable advice to real estate companies facing complex financial issues.
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Defeasance
An industry leader in defeasance for nearly a decade, Chatham has completed over 800 defeasances with a total balance of over $24 billion on behalf of our clients. Our goal is to guide companies through the complexities of the defeasance process while maximizing their cost savings along the way. Get an accurate estimate to evaluate your prepayment or defeasance costs with our online calculator.
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Debt Ratio
Learn how Chatham Financial helped a public real estate company specializing in asset management execute an effective hedge to achieve their desired fixed-floating debt ratio
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Mezzanine Debt
Learn how Chatham Capital Advisors successfully helped a private owner and operator of 43 full-service hotels raise mezzanine debt from a single capital provider that met the desired structure and considerable subordinate position with competitive pricing in the midst of worldwide financial turmoil
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Defeasance
Learn how Chatham Financial helped a public real estate company defease a loan using proceeds from a TALF qualified securitized loan.
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