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New York is the center of our U.S. operations, where we have more than 600 staff. We are active in Capital Markets and Global Banking businesses, across multiple asset classes. Our focus is leveraging our leading European product capabilities and strategies into the US, and continue to build out our rapidly developing global emerging markets franchise, with a specific focus in Latin America.
On the Capital Markets front, we have a growing swaps/equity derivatives financing business and hedge fund solutions group, and are active in key asset classes including rates, fx, and collateralized financing. We are especially renowned for our knowledge of European stocks for U.S. based investors. We are also a primary dealer within the Federal Reserve system, and operate a registered broker-dealer under the Securities and Exchange Commission framework.
Within Global Banking, key pillars of our business include structured finance, asset-backed securitizations, global loans and debt capital markets. In Global Banking recent deals we are proud of include in the film finance and utilities/infrastructure sectors. Late in 2006 for example we acted as adviser and arranger of a $300m fund for Paramount to finance a slate of 30 movies and we worked on a similar $597m fund arrangement for 20th Century Fox. On the infrastructure side we helped finance Macquarie Infrastructure Partners’ $1.59 billion acquisition of Duquesne Light Holdings last year.
Spanning across asset classes, we have a successful Latin American franchise which is co-led by NY and Sao Paulo managers. We offer macro investment strategy research on the Latam region as well as bond, securitization and advisory expertise. We recently advised Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan on the purchase of two Chilean water companies, OTPP's first acquisition in this country, and we were sole placement agent on the US$75m Reg S/144A subordinated perpetual issue by Metro Financiera.
As the U.S. is a critical region for the bank, we recognize that U.S. colleges, universities and business schools produce some of the world’s most talented and best-educated graduates. These graduates are able to make an immediate impact and significant contribution to any enterprise in which they may become involved and that’s why we invest a significant amount of time recruiting at the many top U.S. schools.
Dresdner Kleinwort adheres to current U.S. legislation and ‘best practice’ in recruitment, including a conscious policy not to discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, marital status, ancestry, medical condition, sexual orientation, citizenship, veteran status or any other basis proscribed by federal, state or local law.
