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Interest Rate and Currency Risk Advisory Firm Chatham Opens Singapore Office to Meet Asia Pacific Demand

KENNETT SQUARE, Pa., Feb. 11 PRNewswire — Chatham Financial, the world's largest independent interest rate and foreign exchange advisory company with over $433 billion in transactions annually, today announced the opening of its newest location in Singapore to better serve its international client base as well as support the interest rate and currency risk management needs of its growing number of Asia Pacific clients. The Singapore office is in addition to two US locations in Kennett Square, PA, and Denver, CO as well as offices in London, UK, and Krakow, Poland.

"We are thrilled — this will allow us to continue to create market efficiency with closer proximity to the Asia market. We value having a relationship with our real estate, private equity, and corporate clients and will now be able to better serve on their team to help them accomplish their goals," said Mike Bontrager, founder of Chatham.

Chatham's breadth of services includes interest rate and currency hedging, accounting, capital advisory services, and defeasance. With over 200 professionals in Pennsylvania, London, Colorado, Poland, and Singapore, Chatham executes transactions on behalf of over 700 clients worldwide.

"9 out of the top 10 US REITs are our clients as a result of our hedging and accounting services. With the developing Asian REIT market, this new office will allow us to be a part of easing the burden of reporting, valuations, and pricing transparency to the industry internationally," commented Jason Hoffnagle, Chatham's Singapore team leader, who previously helped develop Chatham's Denver location to serve their western US clients.

About Chatham Financial

Chatham Financial helps over 700 companies in many different industries properly manage interest rate and foreign exchange risk, navigate through any defeasance needs, address hedge accounting standards, and work through loan structuring issues. Since 1991, Chatham Financial has been providing companies access to hedging sophistication typically only found at the largest banks. Our reputation for integrity has won us the confidence of derivative traders, marketers and bankers internationally.

SOURCE Chatham Financial