Argent provides financial advisory and placement services to companies in a variety of industries. Selected transactions completed by Argent are listed below.

• Financial advisory and placement services in connection with a $2.7-billion program for thirteen cargo vessels and five tankers chartered to the U.S. Navy
  
  
• Financial advisory services in connection with a series of over $1 billion of product tankers constructed in a U.S. shipyard
  
  
• Financial advisory and placement services for a $275-million lease of five new foreign-built,
  U.S.-flag vessels to a major U.S. container shipping company
  
  
• Development and placement of debt and equity for $415 million of leveraged and single-investor lease financings for automobile fleets for a car rental company
  
  
• Development and implementation of an $840-million U.S.-flag ownership structure and debt financing program for four new crude oil carriers for a major international petroleum company
  
  
• Financial advisory and placement services to a U.S. telecommunications company in connection with $1.8 billion of financings for switching and multiplex equipment, satellites, microwave and
  fiber-optic cable transmission facilities
  
  
• Financial advisory and placement services for a $900-million debt financing program for five new
  U.S.-built crude oil carriers for a major international petroleum company
  
  
• Financial advisory services for the lease of assets comprising a theme park to a theme park operator in which over $114 million of proceeds were raised
  
  
• Financial advisory and placement services for approximately $865 million of financings for a major satellite manufacturer and operator
  
  
• Financial advisory and placement services for four new U.S.-built container vessels costing approximately $500 million
  
  
• Financial advisory and debt and equity placement services for two $220-million
  high-speed Ro-Pax ferries for a new service
  
  
• Financial advisory services in connection with $800 million of investments by a major U.S. lessor in a waste-to-energy plant, a base-load electric generating facility, a paper manufacturing machine, a fluidized-bed boiler, commercial aircraft and manufacturing equipment