Avoid turbulence with project finance

Published on 07/05/2024

How good! One of our relations has won the contract to carry out a project in New Zealand at a large maintenance company for large aircraft. The project has the scope of several million euros and the lead time is more than a year. Our client is an SME that does not have the financial capacity to fully pre-finance such a multi-million euro project. Although part of the contract price was paid in advance, this client had to provide a bank guarantee in return. This provided some security but did not provide the necessary liquidity. When you think of working capital financing, you quickly think of a current account credit, 'standing in the red', or factoring. We found a completely different solution for this client! 

Together with the company's management, we analysed all the financial facets of the assignment and determined the credit needs. We held discussions with the house banker and then approached Atradius Dutch State Business. After studying all the information, the latter proved willing, under a guarantee from the State, to issue a guarantee in the amount of 80% of the required amount. The company's house banker and shareholders did the remaining 20%. Rabobank was then able to provide a bank guarantee to the client in New Zealand for the full amount of the down payment (35% of the contract price).

Result

The end result is that our client can use the full amount of the down payment as working capital and thus successfully complete the assignment. Read this post for more information on how working capital can strengthen your entrepreneurship.

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