Sukuk and Bonds Issuance Advisory

Riyad Capital’s Debt Capital Markets team provides complete advisory services  towards clients for raising debt funding via issuances of Sukuk (Islamic bonds) and bonds in Saudi Arabia.

• Allow entities to diversify their funding, by creating additional sources of funding other than traditional bank borrowings
• Issuances with investment grade rating usually carry light covenant packages, thus providing the entities with higher degree of financial flexibility
• Serve as cash flow smoothing mechanism by freeing cash for new investments or dividend distribution through a non-amortizing bullet payment
• Serve as a tool to improve certain ratios envisaged by the Issuer, such as issuance of sub-debt Sukuk and bonds (Tier 1 and Tier 2 for banks), perpetual Sukuk and bonds, off-balance structure (securitization)
• Sukuk ensures wide acceptability with the local Shari’a standards to ensure liquidity, which also increases the breadth of local Islamic capital markets