Award-winning solutions in frontier markets
“Best of Frontier Markets”
FinanceAsia 2021, 2020
“Best Sovereign Borrower”
FinanceAsia 2021, 2020, 2017
“Frontier Markets Deal of the Year”
IFR Asia 2024, 2021, 2020
“Best Sovereign Liability Management”
The Asset 2021, 2020
“Asia Restructuring Deal of the Year” and “Turnaround Deal of the Year”
IFR 2019
“Best Quasi-Sovereign Bond”
The Asset 2018
Acclaimed by Our Clients
We have worked with various clients on a broad range of transactions, and have received excellent feedback throughout the years. This includes an honorary medal from the Minister of Finance of Mongolia in January 2023.
“Through the financial advisory services delivered to us, Frontier Strategies and Mr. Schmidt made extremely valuable contributions to our country. Developing the right liability management ideas based on an excellent “read” of the market, high quality execution, management, presentation and negotiation skills were all of critical importance to Mongolia’s transactional successes, helping us to meet our strategic objectives: duration extension and optimizing the maturity profile of our debt stock, thereby reducing refinancing risks; substantial reduction of our funding cost …; and broadening our global investor base in terms of geographies and investor types, including ESG investors.
During the assignments Frontier Strategies and Mr. Schmidt have shown a great deal of commitment and dedication to our country, delivering services of the highest quality. On behalf of the people of Mongolia I would like to extend my gratitude by issuing this recommendation letter. I can unreservedly recommend Frontier Strategies’ capital markets and debt management advisory services to any emerging markets sovereign, quasi-sovereign and private sector entity.”
Mr. Javkhlan Bold
Minister of Finance of Mongolia
April 2023
“The number of awards won for transactions [Florian] advised us on, and the recent success of a capital markets turnaround within only two years speak for themselves, demonstrating the high quality results he delivered to us, all of which are fully acknowledged by our shareholders, management and deal teams, but also by third party market participants and observers. Florian’s role was instrumental in the successes of all our capital markets deals in 2012, 2017 and 2019.”
Ms. Ulemj Baskhuu
Chief Financial Officer
Mongolian Mining Corp
June 2019
“I have been working with Mr. Schmidt on various transactions since 2012 when the Bank approached the international debt capital markets for the first time. On each occasion Mr. Schmidt demonstrated a great ability to “read” the market and subsequently deliver unqualified success to DBM and other Mongolian clients. This, together with creative thinking and the strong presentation and negotiation skills of Mr. Schmidt, were instrumental to the success of DBM’s stand-alone return to the global capital markets.”
Mr. Batbayar Balgan
Chief Executive Officer
Development Bank of Mongolia
November 2018
Media Coverage
“The Government of Mongolia was back in the offshore market in 2021 with the kind of outstanding trade that has become customary”