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Structured Finance Solutions
For large corporations, midsize companies, project developers and government entities
Strategic Services and Creative Solutions
PNC Equipment Finance’s (PNCEF) Structured Finance Solutions group provides strategic services and creative solutions to large corporations, midsize companies, project developers and government entities. The in-house group, unique within the equipment finance industry, specializes in advising, structuring and arranging large asset–based transactions for investors, issuers, lessees and project sponsors. Our core business is financing fixed assets while focusing on tax and balance sheet–oriented transactions within the energy, transportation, manufacturing, media, municipal and infrastructure sectors.
About PNC Equipment Finance
PNC Equipment Finance is a member of The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc., one of the largest, best capitalized and best regarded financial services companies in the country with more than $300 billion in assets and over 50,0000 employees. PNC offers solutions to businesses throughout the United States with expanded reach in Canada. For more than 160 years, PNC has navigated a steady course while growing in size, sophistication and service.
Our Financing Solutions
Our Team Works Closely With Yours
Utilizing a team approach, our professionals work closely with you to fully understand your unique requirements and parameters.
Team members then bring to bear tax, accounting, legal, economic modeling and distribution skills to identify and resolve critical issues during the preliminary due diligence phase of the transaction. As a result, solutions are developed early in the process, or alternative structural enhancements are evaluated, so as to maximize benefits, mitigate risks and minimize costs. Where appropriate, the team will liaise with the client’s outside legal counsel, independent auditor and/or other consultants, as well as advise and assist during the negotiation and documentation
phase of the financing.
Asset Classes and Financing
Asset Classes
- Renewable energy (solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, fuel cells)
- Traditional electric generation (coal, gas, fuel oil)
- Distribution and transmission lines, substations
- Manufacturing facilities
- Real property
- Oil & gas assets — upstream (including enhanced recovery), midstream, downstream
- Aircraft
- Vessels
- Software and technology related equipment
- Film and media related assets
Typical Financing Structures
- Tax equity and related tax monetizing structures
- Project finance (construction and permanent debt)
- Equipment leasing of all types
- Private placements
- State tax credits
- Media financings
- Global deployment vendor programs
- Like-kind exchange structures
- Contract-based infrastructure financing
Enhanced Results
Our transactions, some of which are “first-of-their-kind,” often produce enhanced economic returns for investors, and lower the overall financing costs for issuers, in a manner consistent with the clients’ commercial, tax, accounting and risk management objectives.
Added Value Through Special Expertise
As part of one of the largest bank-owned equipment finance companies in the United States, the Structured Finance Solutions group is able to access specialized expertise from other business segments, including capital markets, managed tax oriented funds, equipment and residual expertise and credit due-diligence, while retaining maximum flexibility with respect to funding sources. This innovative approach enhances currently utilized financing structures and enables the team to continue to develop and close innovative transactions.
First-of-their-kind Transactions
- IRC Section 45 lease financing of refined coal facility for rural electric cooperative
- PV Solar Project on closed landfill for municipal entity pursuant to SREC Regime
- Qualifying film and television production investment program
- Lease of transmission controls for multi-state utility
- Like-kind exchange/passive investment program involving U.S. power assets
- BOLTS lease of generation assets subject to existing safe harbor leases
- Electric distribution network lease financing
- Domestic lease for municipal power generation assets
- Dutch/U.S. anti-pollution (Vamil) lease
- Build-to-suit operating lease financing by U.S. MNC for U.K. assets
Proven Track Record
Each PNCEF Structured Finance Solutions team member has more than 20 years of experience and a deep understanding of the quantitative, legal, tax, accounting, regulatory and risk management issues that can arise in complex structured financings.
By addressing all of these issues at the inception of each transaction, the team’s approach to due-diligence has established greater certainty of closure for its clients. The team has also worked closely on numerous transactions with major accounting firms, nationally recognized tax and legal counsel, leading appraisal and independent engineering firms, and other prominent service providers, resulting in a proven track record of successfully closed financings across a wide spectrum of industry sectors.
| REPRESENTATIVE INDUSTRIES AND VOLUME | |
| Industry | Volume (in Billions) |
| Renewable Energy | $1.3 |
| Electric Gen. / Trans. / Distribution | $9.2 |
| Railroad / Over Road Vehicles | $4.2 |
| General Manufacturing | $1.4 |
| Aviation | $1.6 |
| Film & Media | $0.3 |
| Real Estate | $1.6 |
| Shipping and Other Markets | $0.6 |
| Total | $20.2 |
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