Progredius Finance Experts

Especially in the context of restructuring situations, it is often of utmost importance to fill key personnel positions in order to reestablish the confidence of a company's financing partners. Months can go by until an appropriate, qualified candidate has been found to fill such a management position. If desired, we can temporarily take over operational management and specialists responsibility in the company as "temporary managers" at C-level (CRO, CFO) via our subsidiary TRESAS Management Services GmbH.

Complete preparation and support for the annual (or more frequent) credit-prolongation and rating meetings with banks and other financial partners. Timely and extensive preparation of and support during critical meetings with banks i.e. in the case of covenant default or liquidity shortages.

Establish a procedure to increase debt capacity and provide support in the implementation thereof

Develop and implement optimal financing structures that are adapted to the corporate strategy using all appropriate financing and risk hedging instruments

• Working capital financing
• Structured investment, acquisition, production and sales financing; project financing
• Asset based financing i.e. borrowing base, leasing, factoring
• Publicly subsidized loans
• Consortium and syndicated financings
• Private and capital market placements
• Private equity and/or mezzanine capital
• Interest and currency derivatives

• Strategic focus on medium-sized businesses
• Commitment and reliability/Partnership
• Product knowledge
• Market expertise and understanding for the medium-sized business
• International focus (if necessary), the personnel and structure that would allow for effective coordination on an international level
• Terms and conditions

• Use of our contact base in the finance sector
• Expansion and enhancement of the group of financing partners
• Timely preparation of and support during the initial contact phase as well as for follow-up company presentations to new financing partners at the decision making level

Development and implementation of a consistent, continuous and pro-active financial communications approach

With our many years of experience in the responsible realization of highly complex projects, we are in a position to assume the complete coordination and management of the financing project for our clients. The end-to-end transaction management includes, among others and based on specific requirements,

• The initiation of forecast figures over a number of years to ascertain potential financing needs
• The active coordination of company internal and external experts/specialists (among others tax accountants, lawyers, finance/controlling departments, financial partners/banks) in the context of predetermined time and goal parameters
• The meaningful reporting of project statuses and decision papers for a company's management and owners
• The support during term sheet and financing contract negotiations up until funds are paid out