Dresdner Kleinwort was a mid size investment banking firm. It offers brokerage services for financial and investment products that include capital and money market products, bonds, credit default swaps, structured notes, collateralized debt obligations, repos and commercial paper, index-linked products, foreign exchange derivatives and options, spot and forwards options, interest rate swaps and derivatives, loans, credit lines, and export finance. The firm also provides hedging and trade advisory, electronic market access and reporting, technical and fundamental analysis for securities, margin finance and management, and trading services for gold, silver, platinum, palladium, energy, and base metal products. Additionally, it offers advisory services focusing on liability hedging, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, fund raising, corporate broking, financing trades, yield enhancement, tax and accounting, acquisition finance and securitization, cash and working capital management, leveraged financing, and IPO (Initial Public Offering). The firm, formerly known as Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, was founded in 2001 and is based in London, United Kingdom with additional offices in Frankfurt, Germany; New York, New York; Shanghai, China; Singapore, Singapore; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Mumbai, India; and Johannesburg, South Africa. Dresdner Kleinwort operates as a subsidiary of Allianz SE.
This institution is a global alternative asset manager with a multi-decade track record across private markets. The firm invests on behalf of institutional partners through a family of strategies spanning several asset classes and regions. Its teams operate from offices around the world, working with investors and portfolio companies over long holding periods. Subscribe for the full profile, background and analysis.