A sneak peek into NBK Capital's Equity Capital Market Group

NBK Capital’s ECM Division is going great guns by brokering top tier deals and helping clients realise the full potential of their portfolios.

In today’s competitive times, it helps to stay a few steps ahead of other entities in the same marketplace. A key area of financial growth and funding is the Equity Capital market (ECM), which requires constant innovation and up-to-the-minute information for investors to prosper. The ECM is a marketplace that caters to both individual investors and companies (traders) and which involves one more important entity: the online brokerage firm.

Online brokerage firms in Kuwait, such as the reputed NBK Capital, exist to help companies raise equity capital for future growth. The ECM arena helps companies raise money through marketing, private placements and IPOs, stocks, swaps, new issue allocation, futures and derivatives, among others. A brokerage firm such as NBK Capital helps clients navigate the challenging ECM universe and raise valuable Kuwaiti private equity for the future.

Further, NBK Capital helps raise Kuwaiti private equity by helping companies set financial benchmarks, strategise their goals and leverage existing tools and resources for the best results. This is done by constant market analysis and reading research reports, restructuring when needed, guidance in transaction structuring, etc.

NBK Capital’s past deals read like a veritable Who’s Who of the ECM arena: its ECM portfolio comprises both regional and international corporations. Some of these prominent names are Saudi Telecom, Jazeera Airways, Qurain Petrochemicals, Kout Food Group and Viva. It advises major corporations on top tier listings in the GCC through its reputed listing advisory services, IPO and public placement, among others. Consider the firm’s recent prominent deals:

•          KD 66 mn Mezzan IPO (only IPO to come out in 2015)
•          Viva KSE listing in the year 2014
•          Zain Bahrain IPO, 2014
•          Visa International IPO, 2008
•          Ikarus Petroleum Industries private placement, listing on KSE, both in 2008
•          Jazeera Airways KSE listing, 2008
•          Kout Food Group KSE listing, private placement, both in 2006
•          Al Qurain Pharmaceuticals public placement, 2004

NBK Capital goes beyond mere planning and structuring, to actively perform mentoring duties for all its clients to help them achieve success in ECM. Thus, it oversees and performs functionalities such as underwriting, lead management, financial and private investment advisory, and co-management, among many others. Thus, companies looking to raise some much necessary Kuwaiti private equity would do well to partner with the region’s leading brokerage firm – NBK Capital – and pave their own way to financial success!