Cantor Fitzgerald

Leveraged Finance Trading: High Yield & Distressed

Cantor Fitzgerald has developed a substantial presence in Leveraged Finance Sales and Trading. With 50+ professionals in offices in New York, Boston, Chicago, LA, London, and Hong Kong, we offer extremely broad customer and geographic reach and market coverage.

Our sales-force brings long-standing relationships with the entire spectrum of fixed income investors.  From commercial banks and insurance companies, to hedge funds and private equity investors to multi-strategy asset managers, we have access to the institutions and people that define the leveraged finance market.

Our traders and analysts offer the execution and analysis necessary to develop and deliver difficult trades.  From a block sale of an on-the-run public bond to a strategic acquisition or disposition of a private note, loan or claim, we can offer both advice and solutions.  The capability spans the spectrum of credit quality from highly rated large caps to deeply distressed middle market issuers.  
Our high yield and distressed bond and bank debt trading desk is a very experienced client facing group of individuals who provide and source liquidity in the most difficult of market conditions. Our bank debt team acts as Principal in the settlement of all of its bank debt trades.


Our talented distribution team is dynamic and boasts tremendous long-standing relationships that help investors to accumulate and distribute leveraged product.

• High Yield Bonds
• “Crossover Bonds”
• Distressed Bonds
• EETCs
• Par and Distressed Bank Debt
• Trade Claims
• Bilateral Instruments
• Project / Commercial Loans
• Distressed Securities (Equities, Preferred)
• Busted Convertibles
• Private Placements
• Cross Asset / Capital Structure Trading
• Liability Management