Cobble Hill Partners provides fixed income structuring and investment analysis across all asset classes, with a particular emphasis on real estate-backed, mortgage-backed, asset-backed, and structured products. Our broad fixed income expertise-coupled with complementary strengths in derivatives, legal structuring, and technology-allows us to offer clients comprehensive financial solutions, regardless of which side of the market their need resides.

Capital Raising - We help clients looking to access potential sources of capital by assisting them in preparing an effective fundraising strategy, preparing or evaluating offering memorandum, approaching and negotiating with potential investors and managing the fund raising process through closing.  We also assist clients looking to capitalize certain assets or otherwise increase liquidity by developing and executing innovative structured products and strategies that broaden capital-raising opportunities via the debt capital markets.

Investment Advisory - We advise institutional clients on investment decisions relating to their fixed income portfolios, with particular emphasis on real estate-backed securities, mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities, and interest rate and credit derivative products.

Principal Investments - In certain situations, we invest the firm's own capital, as well as capital raised from outside investors, in client corporate and real estate assets. We concentrate our efforts only on client companies and assets, where our knowledge is deep and outstanding opportunities exist. We have an operations-centric approach to managing our investments and participate actively in consulting the companies we fund. Our contributions extend well beyond financing to assist in strategy development and partnering.

Cobble Hill Partners provides a complete range of corporate financial services to its clients, including:

Strategic Financial Planning - We offer a broad range of strategic financial planning services, including developing financial models, conducting capital budgeting analysis, optimizing capital structures, performing valuations, determining capital needs, and structuring strategic alliances.

Acquisitions, Restructurings & Related Activities - We work closely with companies and creditors to optimize a company's operating leverage and capital structure. We are expert at evaluating and identifying capital structure alternatives most suitable for the particular client, including sourcing external capital, advising on leveraged restructurings and valuing the various components of a business. We also represent both sellers and acquirers in identifying and assessing the relevant issues in strategic transactions such as economic opportunities, risk factors, funding issues, operational and organizational matters as well as regulatory and legal issues.

Capital Raising - We help clients looking to access potential sources of capital by assisting clients in preparing an effective fundraising strategy, preparing or evaluating offering memorandum, approaching and negotiating with potential investors and managing the fund raising process through closing. We also assist clients looking to capitalize certain assets or otherwise increase liquidity by developing and executing innovative structured products and strategies that broaden capital-raising opportunities via the debt capital markets. Finally, in certain situation, we invest the firm's own capital in our clients.

Cobble Hill Partners is expert at conceiving intelligible legal structures that maximize financial and strategic objectives. Although not a law firm, our extensive experience in corporate and market-based finance allows us to provide clients with practical advice in how to successful execute and optimize transactions and strategies.

Corporate Finance - We provide advice in connection with the formation and legal structuring of businesses, special purpose entities and financing transactions with particular tax, accounting and investment objectives. We are also experienced with the structuring and negotiation of a wide variety of corporate financial transactions and strategic alliances, including mergers and acquisitions, stock and asset purchases, reorganizations and recapitalizations, traditional joint ventures, licensing agreements, sales and marketing deals, and distribution partnerships.

Capital Markets - We advise our clients on legal issues relating to capital markets financing transactions and investment decisions.  Our experience covers traditional equity and debt offerings (whether Regulation S, Rule 144A or SEC-registered), as well as more evolved securitization and structured finance transactions, with particular emphasis on real estate-related securities. 

Cobble Hill Partners assists clients seeking to accelerate long-term, sustainable profit growth by helping them to refine their approach to strategy formulation and execution, including setting objectives and goals, developing a mission and vision, clarifying value propositions, determining core competencies, exploring industry/market dynamics, and generating strategic alternatives.

Change Innovation - We help clients to look at their business in new ways in order to generate innovative ideas. Our approach focuses on identifying process needs, unexpected successes, market incongruities and changes in market perception.

Strategy Formulation & Execution - Set on making the whole function better than the sum of its parts, we help clients develop growth strategies and growth platforms; generate ideas and business plans; initiate and manage new products, business ventures and strategic alliances; and, architect sustainable supply-chain and operational performance improvements that mitigate implementation risk.

Risk Management - We work with clients to develop frameworks, planning and decision-making processes to evaluate strategic alternatives in the face of financial, market and regulatory uncertainty. Our approach seeks to take advantage of the opportunities presented in highly uncertain business environments while also effectively managing the risks.

Cobble Hill Partners assists clients in developing information technologies that optimize performance and foster sustainable enterprise success. Our approach translates business requirements into a technology blueprint designed for flexibility, scalability, and cost-effective performance.

Application Development - We develop for clients custom applications that help maximize performance by transforming a wide range of business processes, including: planning and strategy, commerce infrastructure and supply channels, intranet and knowledge management, operational and strategic data management, content and digital asset management, and assessment, customization, and implementation of third-party software packages.

Architecture Management - We assist clients in designing and implementing scalable enterprise architectures and frameworks, including: building a sustainable framework for all enterprise initiatives, modifying existing technology investments to manage changing business requirements, systems integration, enterprise application integration, and data warehousing.

Online Sales and Marketing - We help clients implement effective digital solutions to build or extend their business presence online through both online marketing campaigns and flagship Web sites. Our approach blends strategy, technology, and creative together to help our clients achieve their goals.