Growth Financing - Proventis Partners provides the key to your success

Growth financing as a broad subject

You want to tap new markets, expand your marketing and sales departments, increase your production capacities or invest in new technologies? For this you won’t need to destroy your business, but you do need resilient and sustainable financing structures. Especially growth financing turns out to be an extremely complex matter since the interests of existing investors, the company, the management as well as of the new investors need to be brought together. Precondition for this is a coherent business plan and an integrated financing and business schedule based on it.

Financing approaches

Optimising the balance sheet and improving in-house financing
Des investments (selling company shares)
Subsidies
Silent partnership
Mezzanine capital
Bonded loans
Investors as minority partners (maybe via Owners Buy-Out)

Issues to be considered

Depending on the capital covenants and, in case of equity capital, the special rights of minority partners need to be checked thoroughly.

Usual borrowed capital covenants:	Usual equity parameters:
Equity structure Debt to equity ratio Return on assets Interest and debt service cash ratio Pari-Passu clauses Material adverse change Change-of-Control Bonus limits	Amount of company shares Voting rights Tag alongs and duties Preemption rights Equity dilusion clauses Liquidation preferences Downround provisions Exit-Kicker / Earn-Out rules

Growth financings being Proventis Partners’ core competence

Growth financings belong to the core competences of Proventis Partners. A wide knowledge of what’s going on in the industry, operative know-how, transfer and other growth situations, mastering the whole financing spectrum and M&A-know-how make the partners of Proventis Partners the preferred advisor for this complex task. Proventis Partners is able to support you in all project stages from the analysis and planning stage down to handling financing plans. During the whole process the Proventis Partners management will be your personal contact partner and will develop realistic scenarios for you. Since entrepreneurs with many years of experience know about the subtleties your field is characterised by. Here, we speak your language and think beyond the transaction conclusion: Since your long-term and sustainable success is the motivation that drives Proventis Partners. That’s why you won’t find any product sellers here at Proventis Partners but honest and utterly independent consulting services. Only when the solution turns out to be the best possible one for you it will also be the best for Proventis Partners.

Your benefits at a glance

Access to many years of experience in growth financing
Partners with an understanding of your operative needs
Access to the extensive Proventis Partners financing network
Access to M&A competence for des-investments
Utter independency
Solutions and success orientated