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In 2014, after nearly 150 years as one of Portugal's most wealthy and powerful families, the Espírito Santo family completely lost control of its empire, which included Banco Espírito Santo, Portugal's largest bank by market capitalization and second-largest private-sector bank in terms of assets, along with stakes in numerous financial, non-financial, privately held, and publicly traded companies. During the European financial crisis of 2010 to 2014, many of the family's companies required capital investment. To avoid family equity dilution, the family's patriarch, Ricardo Espírito Santo Silva Salgado, engaged in a creative money-go-round structure whereby Banco Espírito Santo would leg...
The present work is focused on the analysis of Banco Espirito Santo ("BES") Bank Capital Structure, as requested by the client. My division within Lehman Brothers International(Debt Capital Markets/Financial Institution Group) will try to help the client to raise money by selling debt or equity securities to investors. Our objective is that of determining the optimal placement strategy to be used by BES, and in order to do that we started our analysis with a comprehensive understanding of the current volatile market conditions, key aspect for a successful transaction. Then, we analyzed BES Bank Capital Structure and its solvency ratios highlighted that BES Group had got strong positions to finance possible future growth. Lehman Brothers then utilized all the necessary resources for successfully marketing, bookrunning and placing of the issuances.
The “Banco Espírito Santo” (BES) was oldest and one of the largest Portuguese banks: it was created in 1869, precisely at the same year that Goldman Sachs was founded, and it was resolved in 2014.The present paper aims to briefly explain how a centenary bank, that survived to two World Wars, prevailed over different political regimes (Monarchy, Republic, a Revolution), and endured diverse economic regimes (nationalization, subsequent reprivatisation), has come to an abrupt end.
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