Financing and advisory services

UBS’s renewable energy investment banking business arranges financing and provides strategic and financial advisory services for companies in the biofuels, solar, wind, wave and other renewable energy sectors. Since 2006, UBS has led over 20 financing transactions, raising over USD 5 billion for renewable energy companies worldwide and winning a top-five ranking two years in a row (including the prestigious “Top Underwriter” award in 2006) from New Energy Finance, a specialist provider of financial information and analysis to investors in clean energy.

Case studies

2007 – Strategic combinations
UBS provided advice on a number of high-profile strategic combinations in the alternative energy sector. For example, the firm acted as exclusive financial advisor to US BioEnergy Corporation on its announced USD 2.8 billion merger with VeraSun Energy Corporation. The deal creates a global leader in ethanol production, which is set to become the world's largest biofuels company by the end of 2008. The merger represents the largest transaction ever in the biofuels sector.the largest transaction of its type in the history of the biofuel sector.

2007 – Clinton Climate Initiative
UBS is a founding financial partner in the Clinton Foundation’s Climate Initiative (CCI), Energy Building Retrofit Program. The program, which includes five other major financial institutions, ten of the world’s largest energy service companies, and 16 large cities, is designed to reduce energy consumption in existing buildings. Under the program, participating city governments and local building owners will retrofit buildings for increased energy efficiency. Participating cities include London, Paris, New York, Mexico City and Tokyo, among others. UBS has committed expertise and other resources to create financial structures capable of delivering capital effectively to public and private projects in this program.