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Our capital structuring products are designed to improve the balance sheet or income statement of a corporation. The principal products are partnership finance, preferred or preference stock, hybrid securities and investment funds. The issuers of these products will obtain EITHER LOW COST EQUITY OR DEBT WHILE THE INVESTOR consumercreditcounselingnonprofit ACQUIRES low risk and sometimes tax efficient investment income. Investors may well come from a different jurisdiction than the issuer, and the transactions are privately placed in order to provide greater consumercreditcounselingnonprofit flexibility to both parties consumercreditcounselingnonprofit should circumstances change. Asset Finance provides services consumercreditcounselingnonprofit to lessors and lessees of major pieces or pools of equipment globally ($50 million or more). Since many jurisdictions in the world provide incentives to owners of equipment to acquire new or used assets, users of equipment can gain financial benefit in terms of a lower lease rate if they subject these consumercreditcounselingnonprofit assets to a lease. Due to the acceleration of depreciation for tax purposes, the owner of the equipment is prepared to reduce the rental. By making an assumption about the cost of purchasing the equipment at the end of the lease, the lessee can calculate the net present value of the consumercreditcounselingnonprofit benefit which is being passed.

Most of the leases are for a substantial part of the equipment''s useful life, and therefore the lessee needs to be very credit-worthy. Often the lessor will be in different jurisdictions than the lessee, and Citicorp will determine the optimum jurisdiction after taking into consideration the tax impact on the lessee of entering into the consumercreditcounselingnonprofit transaction. Principal investor jurisdictions include the U.S., Germany, Japan, the U.K. and France. Since leases are treated in many countries as off balance sheet finance, Citicorp has also designed some shorter term lease structures which we intended to be treated as leases for accounting purposes, but may be loans for tax purposes. Such leases allow a company to raise 100% finance, pay low rentals and have an option to acquire the equipment in the future at a predetermined price. This will result in an improvement in the income statement without a balance sheet impact. There will be some disclosure of lease rates which rating agencies will use to increase liabilities consumercreditcounselingnonprofit.