Credit Suisse Investment Banking Pitch Book
Executive summary
As part of its ongoing exploration of strategic alternatives, NEWS has engaged in several recent informal
conversations on potential strategic combinations; given the current public market valuation Credit Suisse (or "CS")
recommends a thorough evaluation of selected strategic alternatives
Based on current approaches and our market assessment, there are three potential strategic paths for NEWS to consider:
1. Standalone: continue with existing strategy to transition to a capital-light credit asset manager
2. Project Osprey: sale of majority of balance sheet assets with associated management fee and concurrent sale of manager
3. Sale of whole company to a single buyer: Credit Suisse believes that the universe of potential buyers primarily consists of
alternative asset managers, not banks or other regulated financial institutions
Current Project Osprey construct involves [***] as the buyer of the majority of the balance sheet as an LP-style investor
- [***] has made an oral indication of interest to acquire the loan assets as a fund investor: preliminary indications have implied
a 99% loan value with a 1.00% total fee per annum
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- GSO, acting as agent for [***], to be named manager of newly-formed fund with NewStar as sub-advisor; each party to
receive 0.50% fee per annum
- First Eagle Investment Management, [***], and [***] have orally expressed interest in the asset management platform
Each potential strategic path has distinct workstreams and timing but CS believes that generally speaking, they could be
completed in 6-9 months
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