Simon Collins

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  Simon Collins, head of corporate finance at KPMG, said: "The M&A market is all but frozen while politicians worldwide grapple with the economic crisis.

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  Published on: 10/13/2008    Last Visited: 12/24/2007  

  Simon Collins, chief executive of corporate finance at KPMG, says: "I think we have seen lending conditions that have almost universally been regarded as insanity.
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  "My sense is that a financial director at a good quality company with a clear trading story will find the debt market still open for business," says Collins.
  
  This applies to both a FTSE-100 company planning to make a public bond offering and a small company wishing to raise around £50m to £200m from three to four banks."What is causing the market jitters at the moment is the banks' concern over their underwriting risk.If investor appetite for billion-dollar loans has dried up, the banks don't want to be left holding all of the debt," says Collins.
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  Collins thinks that there could be a silver lining for finance directors."Private equity is likely to find it harder to raise the necessary debt financing for its acquisitions so finance directors can worry less about becoming the next victim of a takeover bid," he says.

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  Published on: 10/13/2008    Last Visited: 7/23/2008  

  "Everyone wants to borrow cheaply," says Simon Collins, head of debt advisory services at KPMG."But what they really need is robust access to cash."
  
  The cheapest finance deal may prove to be false economy if the covenants attached to the loan prevent your company from accessing funds when it needs them most.For example, what would the consequence be if a shortfall in trading breached a covenant?"It's the quickest way to lose access to funding," Collins says.
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  If the maturity of the debt is seven years or more and your industry is not cyclical, the bond market can be cost effective, according to Collins.But he warns that it can be a dangerous choice for firms with weak credit ratings operating in cyclical industries.

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  Published on: 10/13/2008    Last Visited: 2/9/2008  

  40. Simon Collins, chief executive, KPMG Corporate FinanceSimon Collins' expertise in the debt capital markets is particularly useful in economically volatile times such as these.Collins joined KPMG Corporate Finance from NatWest Markets, where he was a managing director and head of the global debt structuring and private placement group.

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  Published on: 9/27/2005    Last Visited: 9/27/2005  

  "There is unparalleled liquidity and a shortage of borrowers in the market," said Simon Collins, chief executive of corporate finance at KPMG, the business consultancy.
  
  The global growth has been driven by European lending, which was up 46.3 per cent to $838 billion as of September 23, compared with the first nine months of last year.Syndicated lending in Europe in the whole of last year was $857 billion.US loan volumes increased 6 per cent to $1,031 billion.
  
  Low interest rates and sound economic growth have led companies to refinance their credit facilities, after having repaired their balance sheet in previous years."Highly creditworthy companies have taken advantage of the immense liquidity and favourable terms in the market and refinanced loans at cheaper terms," said Collins.Companies have also borrowed to fund takeovers.
  
  "There has also been some large acquisition-related financing, such as for Pernod Ricard's takeover of Allied Domecq," he added.
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  "The debt-to-earnings multiples may have peaked, but there is such a large cushion of cash in the market that overall I don't foresee a hard landing," said Collins.

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  Published on: 7/10/2005    Last Visited: 7/10/2005  

  Simon Collins, head of corporate finance at KPMG, says: "The IPO market certainly hasn't taken off yet.

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  Published on: 4/24/2006    Last Visited: 10/31/2007  

  Simon Collins, CEO of KPMG's Corporate Finance practice, comments: "UK companies need to take back control of the pensions issue.Trustees have onerous new responsibilities and are rightly keen to ensure that pensions deficits are high on the board's agenda.But this is sometimes confused with pressing the panic button and immediately paying down deficits, which is often neither workable nor desirable in practice."
  
  Whilst KPMG research shows the majority of the FTSE 100 are not on the brink of a pensions ‘crisis', they are still facing a compressed timeline - perhaps as short as one or two years - within which to make crucial decisions that have huge financial implications for both their pension funds and future growth prospects.
  
  Simon Collins continues: "Everyone acknowledges that there is a pensions problem, but it is not the same problem for each company.

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  KPMG Corporate Finance has also considered a board, but chief executive Simon Collins says he remains ambivalent about its true value.The main consideration is being very clear about exactly what role you want a board to fulfill, he argues."Are they door-openers in Whitehall or industry, or are they detached challengers of the management team, almost like non-executive members of a board?"he says."I've got much more time for an advisory board that is charged to challenge the thinking of the executives."
  
  The firm currently relies on its wealth of in-house expertise and its extensive networks."We tend to like to have orbiting senior people and experienced hands around to be mentors, coaches and sounding boards," says Collins.

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  Published on: 11/9/2006    Last Visited: 1/6/2007  

  Simon Collins, KPMG's chief executive of corporate finance, told Accountancy Age, "This huge, high profile, cross-border deal is a redefining piece of business for KPMG Corporate Finance.

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  Published on: 9/30/2005    Last Visited: 2/9/2007  

  Syndicated lending increased by 20.4 per cent to $2,234bn in the year to date, according to data from Thomson Financial. ,There is unparalleled liquidity and a shortage of borrowers in the market,' said Simon Collins, chief executive of corporate finance at KPMG, The global growth has been driven by European lending, which was up 46.3 per cent to $838bn as of September 23, compared with the first nine months of last year.
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  Syndicated lending increased by 20.4 per cent to $2,234bn in the year to date, according to,Thomson Financial. ,There is unparalleled liquidity and a shortage of borrowers in the market,' said Simon Collins, chief executive of corporate finance at KPMG, The global growth has been driven by European lending, which was up 46.3 per cent to $838bn as of September 23, compared with the first nine months of last year."

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