StormHarbour
StormHarbour publicly presents a multi-service investment banking model spanning private credit, asset management, family office services and capital-markets-related advisory. Public examples include structured financing, debt restructuring, real-estate-backed lending, share-backed financing and selected European capital-markets transactions.
What stands out about StormHarbour
StormHarbour's public materials establish capabilities in private credit, structured financing, asset management, family office services and related advisory. Its published examples include financing backed by Hong Kong and PRC real estate or listed-company shares, as well as European restructuring, football financing, film financing and Portuguese ABS activity. StormHarbour’s official products-and-services and about pages do not publish universal transaction-size criteria or a standard advisory fee schedule.[1][3][4]
What does StormHarbour do?
StormHarbour describes itself as a client-focused investment banking partnership and global investment bank with offices in New York, London, Lisbon, Madrid, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Dubai.
The firm publicly lists asset management, private credit and family office services within its integrated business model. Its public examples span structured financing, debt restructuring, football financing, film financing and Portuguese asset-backed securities issuance.[1][3][5]
StormHarbour publicly lists asset management, private credit and family office services. Its private-credit offering includes origination, negotiation and custom structuring of senior secured debt, bridge loans and mezzanine financing.
Publicly identified asset-management offerings include energy-sector funds, fixed-income strategies, ESG secondaries and real-estate vehicles.[3]
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What should a business owner evaluate before hiring StormHarbour?
For an owner evaluating StormHarbour, the firm’s publicly stated capabilities include structured financing, private credit, private placements and related investment-banking activity. The public examples include real-estate-backed lending, share-backed financing, corporate finance and restructuring.
Before engagement, an owner should confirm the contracting legal entity, the precise mandate, applicable transaction or asset criteria, fees and expenses, investor or lender outreach, conflicts procedures and the team’s recent comparable experience. The official products-and-services page does not publish a universal minimum transaction size, revenue threshold, EBITDA threshold or enterprise-value criterion for its services, and the official about page does not publish a standard advisory fee schedule or universal engagement-fee formula.[1][2][3][4]
Which StormHarbour legal entity would contract for the engagement, and which entity would perform any regulated activities
What transaction-size, revenue, EBITDA, asset or collateral criteria would apply
What size transactions and clients does StormHarbour focus on?
StormHarbour’s public materials identify energy, fixed income, ESG secondaries and real estate within its asset-management offerings. Other publicly identified examples involve European shipping debt restructuring, football financing, film financing, Portuguese asset-backed securities and financing connected with Hong Kong and PRC assets.[3][5]
StormHarbour states that it arranged HKD 2.6 billion for the owner of a Hong Kong luxury residential-property portfolio comprising seven high-end villas with a total valuation of over HKD 4 billion. It also states that it arranged HKD 350 million for a Hong Kong company backed by PRC funding, secured by three en-bloc properties in Wan Chai in two tranches of HKD 240 million and HKD 110 million.
Other published cases include USD 25 million of debt funding for the majority shareholder of a Hong Kong-listed PRC-based chemical manufacturer and USD 160 million of financing backed by shares in an A-share listed PRC retail business for a Hong Kong-based investment holding company.
The firm’s public examples also identify the CMA GGM European debt restructuring, EUR 165 million of financing for two European football clubs, a StudioCanal slate film-financing deal and the first Portuguese ABS issuance since the financial crisis.[4][5]
The firm’s stated private-credit capabilities cover origination, negotiation and custom structuring of senior secured debt, bridge loans and mezzanine financing. Public examples also identify private-placement financing, corporate finance, debt restructuring, share-backed financing, film financing and asset-backed securities activity.[1][3][5]
What does StormHarbour publicly disclose about fees, process and engagement terms?
The official products-and-services page does not publish a universal minimum transaction size, revenue threshold, EBITDA threshold or enterprise-value criterion for StormHarbour’s services.
The official about page does not publish a standard advisory fee schedule or universal engagement-fee formula.
The official private-credit page does not provide closing dates for the described HKD 2.6 billion, HKD 350 million, USD 25 million or USD 160 million financing cases.[1][3][4]
StormHarbour Securities (Hong Kong) Limited, CE number AUK151, is identified by StormHarbour’s official website as licensed by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission for Type 4 Advising on Securities and Type 6 Advising on Corporate Finance from March 2010, and Type 9 Asset Management from June 2016.
SFC publications list the Hong Kong entity as a Licensed Corporation and record regulated activities 1, 4 and 6 in March 2010, with Type 9 added in June 2016.
The legal page states that the StormHarbour network is not one international partnership and that member firms are not otherwise legal partners with each other. It also states that many member firms using “StormHarbour” in their registered names are not owned by StormHarbour Securities (Hong Kong) Limited.[1][2][6][7]
The official products-and-services page does not publish a universal minimum transaction size, revenue threshold, EBITDA threshold or enterprise-value criterion for StormHarbour’s services.[3]
Questions to ask before hiring StormHarbour
Which StormHarbour legal entity would contract for the engagement, and which entity would perform any regulated activities?
Would the proposed mandate cover a full sell-side M&A process, capital raising, refinancing, private placement or a selected advisory lane?
What transaction-size, revenue, EBITDA, asset or collateral criteria would apply?
Which sectors and geographies are actively covered by the responsible team?
Can StormHarbour provide recent comparable transactions with dates, counterparties, consideration structures and outcomes?
What are the retainer, success fee, expenses, exclusivity, termination and tail provisions?
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