Corporates

With our long-term loans, we offer you tailor-made funding solutions at matching maturities for your company worldwide.

Acting as arranger of syndicated financings, we can also mobilise other financing partners and offer a joint financing package.

At a glance:

• Currency: EUR or USD and local currency

• Term: generally between 4 and 10 years

• Collateral: usually as the company's fixed assets in the country of investment

• Interest rate: fixed or variable, market-oriented depending on project and country risks

• Structuring: in line with customer needs

We can also support your growth with equity capital. As a minority shareholder, we generate positive momentum for your business development and reputation. Our involvement is viewed positively by financing institutions, supervisory authorities and rating agencies.

At a glance:

• Equity participation in the company in the country of investment

• As a rule with a minority stake

• Variable structuring of risk components

• In certain cases, voting rights and seat on the company’s supervisory board

• Clearly defined exit strategies

With our subordinated loans, we take on higher risks and offer you individual solutions to supplement your equity capital basis.

At a glance:

• Financing form between equity capital and debt capital

• Project-specific structuring

• Subordinated collateral

• Term: generally 10 years, but also longer

• Risk-appropriate return

• Possibility of conversion to equity, if appropriate

With AfricaConnect, DEG helps European companies enter Africa with long-term loans. Investments in reform-oriented African countries are specifically promoted and facilitated through a special model of risk sharing.

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Measures that support investments contribute to advancing developmental broad-based and structural effects and help further professionalisation. In doing so, DEG can bear a share of the costs, for example to implement environmental and social management systems which help to identify and manage risks in these areas.

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Companies aiming to implement a project with development effects such as a pilot project or environmental or qualifying measure can be co-financed by the BMZ's develoPPP.de programme. Four times a year a develoPPP.de ideas competition is held for companies to submit their proposals. A total of up to EUR 2 million can be provided towards each project.

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DEG finances innovative pioneering investments of German and local small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in developing countries that are in the start-up phase. Projects such as these can be co-financed by up to EUR 500,000 ‒ repayable on success.

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DEG can bear a share of the costs (up to EUR 200,000) for European SMEs planning to invest in a developing country and conduct a feasibility or environmental study, a legal survey or a market analysis. The funds are from the BMZ.

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