Event Description:
Our SMBC Meet and Greet Series is a uniqueopportunity to meet and interact with the various business areas that hire interns and analysts. Note: You are welcome to attend as many of the Meet and Greet sessions as you like. You can find each session’s participating business groups on our events central page here.

Fund Finance (SSFD)
SMBC is a global leader in subscription-secured lending to private equity funds investing across multiple asset classes. SMBC offers financing to investment management firms that seek a flexible and inexpensive form ofleverage to employ on closed-end, private equity funds, for either commingled fund partnerships or single investor separate accounts. We manage relationships with over 80 Financial Sponsors, spanning the largest private equity firms globally and a large cross-section of mid-market sponsors.

Leveraged Finance (SCAD)
Sponsor Finance (SFG)
Sponsor Finance’s primary mission is to establish strong relationships with private equity sponsors. SFG is a well-established and rapidly growing platform in the US which will offer firsthand experience into the private equity space. Candidates will get direct exposure to underwriting transactions as well as coverage of various industries.
Portfolio Management (PMG)
The Portfolio Management Group supports the bank’s leveraged loan business. The Group is primarily responsible for monitoring the credit quality for portfolio companies owned by Private Equity firms and also manages any amendment and underwriting activities to support these businesses during the tenor of thebank’s relationship.
Lender Finance (LFG)
SMBC’s Lender Finance Group provides strategic credit-based financing solutions to Middle Market loan originators and asset managers. In connection with a CLO where SMBC islead arranger, LFG may provide Ramp-up Facilities for CLO managers to accumulate collateral.

Municipal Finance
Municipal Finance is a client-facing group within SMBC’s Specialized Finance Department, responsible for delivering the full solutions to municipal clients through mainly providing liquidity/credit enhancement/funding in support of debt issuance by state and local governments, authorities and essential service providers to fund capital projects or improve existing infrastructure. Municipal services and projects typically generate revenues (via taxes or fees and charges) that can be pledged for the repayment of bonds (e.g. water & sewer or electric power, toll roads, airports, ports, bridges, higher education facilities and housing developments).

Private Placement
The Structured Placement Group is the dedicated U.S. Private Placement (USPP) team within SMBC Nikko. With a focus on project bond and corporate financings, the team provides global clients access to the USPP investor base. This investor base comprises many North American and select European and Asian pension funds, insurance companies and other large institutions interested ininvestment opportunities around the world. The Structured Placement Grouphas been extremely active in a diverse set of industries, including renewable energy, oil & gas, infrastructure and transportation.

Project Finance (SDAD)
SMBC’s Global Structured Finance team is one of the world’s leading project finance powerhouse. We provide debt and equity services to clients globally and have strong market positioning. We provide a variety of financing solutions for large scale infrastructure projects including conventional and renewable power plants, transmission lines, mining, oil and gas facilities, toll roads, ports, airports, bridges and hospitals across US and Canada. Our typical products are structuring of project finance, financial advisory to project developers, long / short term loan to project, large scale underwriting of the loans, bond (144A, US private placement) arrangement, Export Credit Agency financing and M&A.We have opportunities in both our North America and Latin America ProjectFinance teams.

Real Estate Finance
Our desk is a client-facing division of the Specialized Finance Department, responsible for delivering the full front-to-back spectrum of non-recourse commercial real estate financing. We finance the following types of real estate: multifamily apartments, logistics centers, office buildings, retail shopping centers, hotels, data centers and so on. Our customers are the world’s top-class real estate investors, as well as Japanese and Asian investors, as we leverageour long-standing history and wide client coverage in the Asian market.

SMBC Leasing & Finance (SMBC LF)
SMBC Leasing and Finance, Inc. is a client-facing subsidiary of SMBC, responsible for delivering value-added,asset finance solutions to SMBC’s core customer base through bespoke leasing products, with offices in the US, United Kingdom, Germany and Australia. As a recognized market leader in advising and arranging highly structured transactions, SMBC LF works with various companies, globally, in every industry sector. SMBC LF’s highly structured transactions incorporate creativity and expertise in corporate finance, detailed cash flow modeling, financial analysis, accounting and asset-specific knowledge. The group’s team is comprised of driven, disciplined and energetic individuals looking for new and innovative ways to provide added value to clients through unique and creative solutions that help set SMBC apart from other financial institutions.

Info Session Details:
Location: https://smbc.webex.com/smbc/j.php?MTID=mf8444d284363bdddd8516e4fbb87fb56
Meeting Number: 1327 85 3594
Meeting Password: CampusFall3