First Southwest Company has earned national recognition for outstanding performance and innovative financing solutions in the debt capital markets.

The firm’s expertise in underwriting, sales and financial products advisory services provides clients with a clear advantage: A keen understanding of the markets resulting in investment solutions not otherwise available in the traditional cash markets. Additionally, the firm’s valuable perspective of a market participant versus that of a market observer, provides clients with expanded investment options not generally accessible by conventional means.

The seasoned professionals in the Debt Capital Markets Group provide expert market-making capabilities to fixed-income issuers in the areas of asset-backed securities, project financing and private placements. The firm also has significant experience in the design and execution of a broad array of cash and derivative transactions. First Southwest serves as structuring agent for billions of dollars in bond proceeds, reinvestments and derivative transactions annually. Structured investments, swaps and other customized bond structures are a mainstay of the high quality ancillary services that First Southwest’s Debt Capital Markets Group can offer clients.

The Group also provides customized services in:

• Structured Products and Derivatives Advisory Services
• Reinvestment of Bond Proceeds
• Tax-Exempt and Taxable Fixed-Income Investment Analysis