First Options of Chicago, Inc.
Financial ServicesIllinois, United States2-10 Employees
First Options of Chicago, Inc. is a financial services firm focused on capital markets activities related to corporate restructurings. It operates from a world corporate office in Chicago, Illinois, with an additional office in New York, New York, reflecting a cross-market presence. It leverages relationships with private and institutional investors to raise capital quickly for acquisitions, restructurings, and recapitalizations of small private and public companies, drawing on more than 30 years of industry experience and a history of long-term client relationships. It specializes in situations involving complex trades, litigation, and liquidation claims tied to bankruptcy restructurings and engages in trading distressed securities, including opportunities in special situations claims; it has served on creditor committees in major federal bankruptcies. Its activities center on reorganization-focused buying of bonds or equity under federal bankruptcy laws, with a broad trading remit across leveraged loans and bonds, investment-grade corporate bonds, distressed securities, government and agency securities, mortgage- and asset-backed securities, municipal bonds, and emerging markets debt.