Financing
- Obtaining external financing
- Project finance
- Operational financing
- Re-financing
- Acquisition finance
- Mezzanine finance
- Business planning
- Financial sources at lower costs
- Adequate structure of financing
- Efficient scope and form of pledge
- Analysis and optimization of financial costs
- Availability of financing and financing costs belong to key factors for most companies. Structure of using financing resources and dimension of pledge for FIs is also important.
- Most companies need external financing at various stages of their lifetime – operational financing to support further organic growth as well as merger and acquisition finance.
- VGD Corporate Finance offers support in obtaining proper operational or investment financing.
- VGD Corporate Finance first makes a detailed analysis of customer's credit position and evaluates the feasibility of the customer's request; the second stage contains a proposal of financing and obtains respective external financing as per agreement with the customer's management
Typical Process of Obtaining Financing
- Detailed definition of project goals
- Collection of information and management interviews
- Complex analysis of financial and quantitative information on the company/project (VGD Corporate Finance Generic Rating Model)
- Specify critical factors of creditworthiness of the company/project
- Analysis of the structure of financial sources and various means of financing
- Selection of the best financing option or a combination of options
- Analysis of pledges and of a target proportion of pledges
- Analysis of „banking attractiveness“ (overall potential revenues for the financing institution)
Customer presentation / selection process
- Prepare information for FIs (Information Memorandum)
- Identification of potential financing parties
- Prepare invitations to submit indicative offers
- Keep confidentiality of provided information
- Full „utilization“ of competitive environment
Pre-execution stage
- Prepare and manage the negotiations between the customer's management and financing parties
- Contact selected financing parties
- Prepare information for FIs (Information Memorandum etc.)
- Evaluate received indicative offers in order to minimize interest rate and tax costs (as well as other financial costs) and evaluate the structure of pledge
- Recommend the most suitable financing partner
- Management of negotiations with the selected partner regarding specific conditions of credit/leasing
- Arrange legal review of transaction agreements
- Description of documents and transaction closure