Consulting Services

Tavakoli Structured Finance, Inc. (TSF) assists clients in maximizing the value of structured financial products. TSF consulting services in structured finance and corporate finance to financial institutions and institutional investors.

TSF aids finanical institutions in negotiations to avoid legal battles and quickly achieve satisfactory financial outcomes.

Practice includes reorganization and department building to maximize revenue, expanding the client base, structuring advice, valuation, hedging, corporate governance, risk management, and Sarbanes-Oxley issues.

TSF develops opportunistic strategies for clients retaining its services.

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The Omaha Model™ is a TSF method for trading credit derivatives and hedging portfolios of credit derivative products. This is an improvement over correlation models and Monte Carlo based models.

CDO UltraStream™ is a TSF proprietary investment optimization product.

TSF also provides expert consulting and expert witness testimony.

Tavakoli Structured Finance provides corporate governance consulting services to CEOs, CFOs, audit committees, risk management groups for issues involving risks to the balance sheet and reporting of structured financial products including disincentives to internal gaming and fraud prevention.

Securitization and Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs)

• Bank Sponsors and Issuers - Increasing revenues and distribution
  
  
• Investors - Fair value and structural protection. Remedies for downgraded or distressed deals.
  
  
• CDO Managers - Cash versus synthetic collateralized debt obligations (CDOs)
  
  

• Securities – Credit linked notes, convertible bonds, mortgage backed securities, bonds with imbedded derivatives
  
  

• Securitization - New product development
  
  

• Special Purpose Entiities, SPEs, Special Purpose Vehicles, SPVs, – Structured finance applications including accounting issues
  
  

Credit Derivatives and Traditional Derivatives

• Credit Derivatives – Language, risk management, and value considerations of credit default swaps and total return swaps.

• Traditional Derivatives – Hedging options for interest rate and currency risk.

Corporate Governance

• CEOs, CFOs and Audit Committees - Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and prudent reporting of off-balance sheet transactions, contingent obligations, unconsolidated entities, and structured finance risks on 10-K, 10-Q, and 8-Ks

• Corporate Finance - Convergence of structured finance and corporate finance

• Accounting - Prevention of accounting abuse with structured finance

• Risk Management – Structured finance, securitization and derivatives issues

• Bank Balance Sheets and hidden risks accumulation due to structured finance activity

• Structured Finance distortion of profit and loss statements due to hidden risks, accounting, and mispricing of risk

• Credit Derivatives - Special issues posed by language, pricing, booking.

• Traditional Derivatives - Prevention of hidden risk accumulation, preventing misrepresentation of risks and value in 10-Ks, 10-Qs, and 8-Ks.

• Rogue Trading Prevention - easy to implement protocols to prevent abuse

• Offshore Entities - Special issues involving corporate governance for unregulated entities

• Internal Gaming and Fraud Prevention – Creating disincentives for internal gaming and protections against fraud