Investment Banking

GCG offers a wide range of international financial advisory services to leading Chinese companies, multinational companies and government institutions. Investment Banking services include equity and debt financing, corporate restructuring, and mergers and acquisitions. Equity and debt financing can be executed in both domestic and international capital markets.

GCG has extensive industry knowledge in strategic industries and sectors that include airports and air transport, real estate, cement, water treatment, telecommunications, power, oil and gas, petrochemicals, iron and steel, non-ferrous metals and financial services. This expertise enables GCG to offer a full range of customized services in the fields of SOE reform and corporate restructuring, as well as domestic and overseas financing. GCG is committed to long-term client relationships founded on trust and maintained through a wide range of highly value-added services. GCG takes the investment banking business beyond standard products and services to the provision of customized client solutions for long-term strategic goals.

Within these long-term, multi-faceted relationships, GCG takes a proactive approach to helping clients establish modern corporate governance and management systems while achieving their strategic and financial goals. Since 2000, GCG has studied the reform and restructuring of China's telecommunication, oil & gas, petrochemical, non-ferrous metals and financial industries, acquiring unrivaled experience in the art and science of corporate restructuring.

In 2003, GCC has undertaken mandates to complete numerous transactions in both domestic and international capital markets.

GCG's lines of services include the following:

  •  Corporate Debt and Equity Finance

  •  Mergers & Acquisitions

  •  Merchant Banking Advisory

  •  Privatization

  •  Recapitalizations and Restructurings

  •  Divestitures and Spinoffs

  •  Management Buyouts and Leveraged Buyouts

  •  Project Finance and Development

  •  Business Formation and Expansion

  •  Structuring Business Investment

  •  Technology Acquisition and Development

  •  Funds Origination and Management

  •  Strategic Consultancy

Examples of these services are as follows:

Financial Advisory Services
- Investment origination
- Buy-side and sell-side financial advisory services
- M&A valuation and other financial support
- Third party financing (debt and equity)
- Fairness Opinions

Infrastructure Project Development and Finance:
- Project development
- Project finance
- Partner identification and selection
- Joint venture support

Business Advisory Services
- Business formation and joint venture support
- Foreign business entry into China
- China business entry into the U.S.

Technology Acquisition and Development
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Assist in the identification and licensing of technology
- Partner identification and selection
- New project opportunities

Funds Origination and Management
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Fund structuring
- Fund raising
- Investment and portfolio management

Real Estate Development and Finance
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Asset acquisition valuation
- Third party financing (debt and equity)
- Project development
- Partner identification and selection
- Joint venture support

Merchant Banking

GCG, on occassion, looks for opportunities to invest in equity and equity-related securities of enterprises that have a strong management team, a track record of profitable operations, a long-term competitive advantage in the industry and an attractive expected return for GCG as well as its investors. For GCG, the Project Identification, Design, Due Diligence and Management are conducted in compliance with international practice. GCG is in the process of participating and sponsoring Private Equity Funds which target regional and industrial sector investment in China.