Strategic Consulting

The strategy and consulting practice of Minot provides consultations on a variety of fixed income, real estate finance and capital markets issues such as: how different types of securitizations work (CMBS, Agency MBS, Non-Agency MBS, CLOs, CDOs) and the opportunities and risks associated with these structures in different market environments; the operations of mortgage REITs; the benefits and risk of high yield real estate instruments (B-notes, B-pieces, mezzanine debt, preferred equity); the impact, risk and benefit of using derivatives, such as interest rate swaps; how real estate financial operations at commercial banks work; as well as a variety of other proprietary topics.

We operate on an hourly, project-specific or retained basis.

CLIENTS

Alliance Bernstein

Alinma investment company

Anonymous $5 - $10 billion private equity firms

Blue Mountain Capital Management, LLC

Centerbridge Partners

Citadel Investment group

Citigroup

DEUTSCHE BANK AG

mcgraw hill financial

MFS Investment management

Parthenon Capital, LLC

Ping An of China Asset Management (Hong Kong) Co. Limited

Verisk AnalyticS

Vontobel asset mgmT

Wells Fargo

Fidelity Investments

foote, cone & belding

Fortress Investment Group, LLC

goldman sachs

Housing Finance Fund of Iceland

Macquarie Corporate and Asset Funding Inc.

mckinley and co.

MCKINsEY and co.