Liquidity, without exiting the position.
Institutional securities-backed lending against shares listed on every major global exchange — for controlling shareholders, founders, family offices, and sophisticated single-stock holders.
A shareholder should not have to choose between liquidity and ownership. We arrange institutional financing structured against listed equity, on terms calibrated to the position, the market, and the holder. Capital is released; the shares stay where they are.
Securities-backed lending, structured properly.
A loan secured by a pledge of listed shares. The shareholder retains beneficial ownership, the right to dividends (subject to structuring), and the option to recover the full position on repayment. The instrument is centuries old; the discipline is in the structuring.
What is securities-backed lending?
The mechanics, the loan-to-value range, the recourse profiles, the disclosure regimes — explained without the marketing varnish.
Read the explainer →How the engagement runs
Five disciplined stages from confidential enquiry to capital deployment. Senior principals throughout; institutional documentation; counsel of your choosing.
See the process →On the principal exchanges of every major capital market.
Securities-backed lending is, structurally, a function of the market in which the collateral is listed: each exchange brings its own regulatory framework, disclosure regime, settlement mechanics, and liquidity profile. We work in 38 of them.
Americas.
United States (NYSE, Nasdaq), Canada (TSX), Brazil (B3), Mexico (BMV) — the principal cash equity venues of the western hemisphere.
View region → 11 countries · 11 exchangesUnited Kingdom & Europe.
UK (LSE), the Euronext federation, Germany (Deutsche Börse), Switzerland (SIX), Italy, Spain, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Poland, Austria.
View region → 5 countries · 6 exchangesMiddle East & Africa.
Saudi Arabia (Tadawul), UAE (ADX, DFM), Israel (TASE), South Africa (JSE), Qatar (QSE) — the deepest pools of listed equity in the region.
View region → 14 countries · 16 exchangesAsia-Pacific.
Hong Kong (HKEX), Japan (TSE), China (SSE, SZSE), Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Australia, NZ, India (BSE, NSE), Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam.
View region →Five recurring counterparty profiles.
Securities-backed lending is one instrument with five recurring applications. Each page below details the structuring considerations specific to that profile of holder.
Founder Stock Loans
Liquidity against locked-up or insider-restricted founder equity, without selling and without breaching the lock-up.
Read →Family-Office Stock Loans
Stock loans within multigenerational trust structures — diversification, downstream deployment, succession bridging.
Read →Controlling Shareholders
Liquidity without disturbing voting control, the share register, or the position under the takeover code.
Read →Capital released. Position intact.
A sale extracts the capital and the holder. A securities-backed loan extracts only the capital. The shareholder keeps the position, the voting rights, the upside, and the disclosure footprint of the underlying. The transaction releases cash against a fraction of the position’s market value, and the position is recovered in full on repayment.
This is the institutional truth at the centre of the instrument: the right transaction extracts value from a position without extracting the holder from the position. The whole discipline is the structuring of that transaction.
Five disciplined stages.
Senior principals throughout.
Indicative terms typically within one or two business days. Documentation in parallel with custody arrangement. Capital deployed against agreed timelines.
Confidential Enquiry
High-level details of the position, submitted through a secure channel. Initial dialogue with senior principals only.
Indicative Terms
Preliminary structure typically issued within one to two business days of the initial submission.
Documentation
Institutional documentation in parallel with regulatory, tax, and disclosure review by counsel of the borrower’s choosing.
Custody & Pledge
Shares pledged to a qualified custodian under bankruptcy-remote arrangements. Beneficial ownership preserved throughout.
Funding & Stewardship
Capital deployed against agreed timelines. An ongoing point of contact maintained throughout the life of the facility.
What people most often ask first.
Q · 01 What is securities-backed lending?
Q · 02 How is it different from selling the shares?
Q · 03 What loan-to-value ratio is typical?
Q · 04 Which markets can be lent against?
Q · 05 Who is this for?
Q · 06 What size of transaction do you arrange?
A confidential conversation begins with one message.
No obligation. No intermediaries. A senior principal will respond.