Cantor Fitzgerald

Competitive Advantages

Experienced Professionals, Innovation and Global Reach
Collectively, members of our team have worked on over 195 transactions, aggregating $95 billion throughout their careers. Our senior team averages over 20 years of experience and possesses expert knowledge of structuring alternative investment fund placements and direct private placements.  Our professionals concentrate on solving complex financial problems and executing specialized investment strategies. We strive to maintain and enhance our base of highly talented professionals and pride ourselves on being able to offer clients more senior-level attention than may be available from many of our competitors.

Importantly, PCG focuses on addressing and providing innovative and tailored solutions to complex issues and challenges for our clients around the globe. We possess a deep understanding of investor requirements and decision-making processes.  We apply our global industry and product experience to assist our clients in meeting and / or exceeding their capital raising objectives. Our team has strong transaction experience and has demonstrated the ability to understand and communicate complex investment strategies.

PCG originates, evaluates, structures, negotiates and markets alternative investment vehicles and direct private placements for a variety of strategies: Buyouts, Debt, Real Estate, Credit, and Mezzanine and a variety of securities: equity, equity-linked, debt, mezzanine and related products. With global distribution capabilities, PCG works side-by-side with our clients to meet their capital raising objectives.

Integrated Approach to Raising Private Capital
Unlike most of our competitors, PCG comprises two primary businesses -- Alternative Investment Fund Placements and Direct Private Placements.  Importantly, we believe that this approach offers significant advantages for our issuer clients, as there is significant crossover between investor groups.  In addition, our integrated business approach helps us attract and retain clients and recruit high quality and experienced investment professionals. 

Capital Markets Knowledge
We are in the market every day, originating, evaluating, structuring, marketing and negotiating transactions.  As such, we have the ability to provide up-to-date market intelligence with the objective of achieving the best transaction results for our clients.

Teamwork and Collaboration
Our team works collaboratively in pursuit of a singular goal: a successful capital raise for our clients. We execute as “one firm” with an industry-leading team of professionals who cover established and new institutional investors. Cantor has assembled a team of seasoned professionals with significant experience and a proven track record in capital raising.  Our capital raising strategy emphasizes senior-level attention in each and every capital raising assignment.

Strong Relationships
PCG has exceptional distribution capabilities owing to long-standing business relationships with key decision-makers across all major institutional investor groups and market segments.  Our global investor base includes the largest and best-known investors worldwide, including public and private pension funds, endowments, foundations, banks, insurance companies, family offices, consultants, family offices, high net worth individuals, and sovereign wealth funds.  In addition, we possess strong relationships with private equity firms, hedge funds, LBO funds, mezzanine funds, bank proprietary trading desks, and strategic investors.  Importantly, Cantor’s industry-leading resources and global fundraising infrastructure leads to superior fundraising results for our clients.

Commitment to Client Service
PCG is creating a unique brand in the marketplace for alternative investment fund placements and direct private placements.  We are focused on providing exceptional, unbiased professional service and sound structuring advice.  We believe that our people are united by a common desire to provide exceptional placement capabilities.  By utilizing our global capabilities and deeply experienced management team, our objective is to differentiate ourselves from our peers.

Building Trust and Adding Value
We build trust by working closely with our clients to develop innovative and customized deal structures and by providing impartial advice that draws upon our extensive private and public sector expertise and global market insight. As a firm, we strive to add value and create opportunity in all that we do. We believe our creative, hands-on approach, combined with our wide-ranging experience, expertise and extensive relationships distinguishes us from our competitors.  Our clients should benefit from our significant industry and product knowledge and extensive global reach. Whether executing alternative investment fund placements, direct private placements or structured investment vehicles, PCG integrates our expertise in Institutional Sales, Trading and Investment Banking to offer our clients an integrated approach to meeting their capital needs.