Strategic Planning

Tavakoli Structured Finance® provides expert experience and knowledge about maximizing value in the capital markets in the face of uncertainty. TSF develops forward-looking strategies for clients considering mergers, sales, or acquisitions. TSF also provides strategies for credit derivatives, securitization, traditional derivatives, and portfolio restructuring.


Capital markets strategies assess market contraction and growth, growing investor sectors, comptetitive development, new products, and industry best practices.

Structured Finance

• Portfolio Restructuring
• Credit derivatives and total return swaps: special securitization issues
• Special purpose entities (SPEs): venues, tax, accounting, documentation, disguised loans, money siphons, fraud, and other abuses
• Designing fair value structures
• Risks to the trading books and balance sheet
• Downgrades and distressed CDOs
• Leveraged Finance issues

Credit Derivatives

• Expanding trading counterparties and investors
• Expanding and Streamlining Trading
• Credit default swaps, total return swaps, and credit-linked notes
• Pricing and market data
• Market maker overview
• Relative value
• Investor driven structures
• Hedging credit risk
• Balance sheet optimization
• Language issues in various structures
• Regulatory, total capital, legal, documentation, and market issues
• U.S. versus Europe – cross border issues
• Asian issues
• Contingent claims
• Securitization, structured finance, and credit derivatives
• Insurance versus credit derivatives
• Total return swaps, financing and toxic convertibles
• Hedge funds and alternative investors
• Future developments in language issues
• Portfolio swaps and synthetic collateralized debt obligations
• Future developments