Structured Finance Techniques, Products and Market

In recent years, financial engineering has developed new ways of financing deals based primarily on the capacity of the operations to generate sufficient cash for the repayment of loans or bonds. The business of structured finance has then become an inter

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Stefano Caselli ´ Stefano Gatti (Editors)

Structured Finance Techniques, Products and Market

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Professor Stefano Caselli Professor Stefano Gatti IEMIF Bocconi University Via Sarfatti 25 20136 Milan Italy [email protected] [email protected]

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Foreword Stefano Caselli and Stefano Gatti “Giordano Dell’Amore Institute of Financial Markets and Financial Intermediaries – “L. Bocconi” University, Milan Structured finance is a business area that encompasses a wide range of transactions. In this work, the authors opted to include securitization, project finance, leasing (as a transaction representative of asset based finance) and acquisition finance activities conducted by utilizing a deal design based on a strong debt component (essentially LBOs in all their contractual variations). This perimeter of analysis does not lend itself to meticulous theoretical or empirical debate. The evidence which emerges from observation of the managerial practices of international and domestic intermediaries that compete in this business (which are described in this work) substantially confirm this choice. Though defining the boundaries of structured finance is not particularly problematic, the same can not be said of the position taken by Italian financial intermediaries in this business area. In actual fact, neither in national nor international literature can systematic studies be found which deal with both positioning of actors on the market (and in this context positioning of domestic intermediaries) as well as the choice of organizational structures at the basis of services offered. This was the primary motivation for drafting the present study. The second reason that prompted the authors to address this topic lies in the transformation of the strategy that various I