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Chatham Financial is a valued advisor to a wide array of real estate companies and investors. Our client base is comprised of private developers, REITs, institutional real estate funds, debt funds, and pension funds of all sizes. With nearly 20 years of service in the real estate market, Chatham brings a powerful combination of capital market skills to meet our real estate client’s needs in the area of derivatives and debt advisory and has become the largest independent, and most often referred advisor for derivatives expertise.

Derivatives Expertise - As your hedging adviser, we seek to serve and be an extension of your real estate finance team – a partner who solely represents your interests as you navigate complex capital markets issues. We work alongside you to understand your objectives, risk tolerance and business constraints. Our teams of experts assist in identifying interest rate, currency and inflation risks, designing effective hedging strategies, arranging credit for the hedges, then efficiently executing them and ensuring they are appropriately documented.

We also help you navigate the accounting complexities of IAS 39/IFRS 9. Further, Chatham’s web-based portfolio management platform enables you to track your derivatives portfolio, receive valuations and journal entries, reconcile bank payment notices, perform shock analyses, retrieve transaction documents, and much more. In addition, all of your debt can be managed by our debt management software system, FMS (Financial Management System).

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“By providing clear and understandable guidance to the complex world of derivative products, Chatham eases the burden of interest and currency rate risk management while ensuring efficient market execution for the hedging strategy.”

— Stuart Koenig, Global Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer,     AREA Property Partners

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Services Offered

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Interest Rate Hedging
Chatham helps clients determine and execute the right interest rate hedging strategy and tools. Whether it’s with interest rate swaps, caps, collars, treasury locks, or a wide range of other risk management solutions, we partner with our clients to address a wide range of interest rate risks.   Learn More

Foreign Currency Hedging
Chatham helps clients determine and execute the right currency hedging strategy and tools. Whether with foreign currency forward contracts, options, collars, cross currency swaps, or a wide range of other risk management solutions, we partner with our clients to address a wide range of currency risks.   Learn More

Accounting Services
Chatham serves hundreds of companies worldwide achieve their hedge accounting objectives. With years of experience and deep expertise our dedicated team of accounting professionals consult on and account for thousands of hedging relationships for derivatives, bringing peace of mind to our clients and their auditors.   Learn More

Valuations
Over 1000 clients with operations around the globe rely on Chatham to provide accurate and independent valuation services for their debt and derivative holdings. Every night we value more than 20,000 trades representing dozens of different indices and multiple currencies.   Learn More

Hedge Portfolio Management
Chatham’s hedge advisory expertise is complemented by our online hedge portfolio system allowing clients to keep their hedging information in a secure, password protected “electronic filing cabinet”, easing the burden of organizing and accessing hedging data.   Learn More

Debt Management
Whether providing our clients a clear view of their debt profile from individual loan details and valuations to portfolio level reporting and analytics, FMS, Chatham’s debt management system, enables clients to access their debt and derivative documentation through one user-friendly interface.   Learn More

Capital Advisory (Currently U.S. Only)
From capital raising and corporate advisory to restructuring/bankruptcy, Chatham Capital Advisors delivers unbiased, strategic and actionable advice to real estate companies facing complex financial issues.   Learn More

Defeasance (U.S. Only)
An industry leader in defeasance for nearly a decade, Chatham has completed over 800 defeasances with a total balance of over $24 billion on behalf of our clients. Our goal is to guide companies through the complexities of the defeasance process while maximizing their cost savings along the way. Get an accurate estimate to evaluate your prepayment or defeasance costs with our online calculator.   Learn More

Case Studies

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Interest Rate Risk Management
Learn how Chatham advised a real estate investment fund who was in the ramp-up period of their deal and needed to extend the financing to accommodate their investment stage but faced original hedging deeply underwater.    Learn More