Today an entrepreneur has many financing options meeting most of his needs. Thanks to the close relationships in a wide network of investors APMC therefore offers and range of different financing instruments in order to allow an optimal, tailor-made implementation of growth financing.

The main financing instruments are:

• Private Equity financing, i.e. private placement of new shares and/or existing shares to private individuals. Compared to debt financing Private Equity allows shareholders of a company to share business risks with other investors rather then paying fixed interest rates.
• Initial Public Offering (IPO): public placement of new and/or existing shares. An IPO is not just a Large-Cap Option. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) can also benefit from the existence of new types of stock exchanges – e.g. the New Entry Standard in Frankfurt. Offering shares to the public often leads to the highest ROI for the selling party. In this area APMC is working together with partners who are willing to get paid with shares rather then cash. This offer significantly reduces the risks and cash needs a SME company may face elsewhere.

Further financing instruments we offer may also include:

• Mezzanine Financing, e.g. junior debt with a fixed interest rate with the option of repaying loan redemption in equity instead of cash.
• Financing by selling warrants (stock options) or convertible bonds
• Sale-and-lease-back financing: selling of fixed assets (e.g. machines or R&D laboratories) or intangible assets (e.g. patents or licences) and leasing them back with an exclusive right of user. These financing instrument allows companies to activate certain “sleeping” assets in the balance sheet and to benefit from fresh money to invest without loosing the exclusive right of user.
• Common bank loans

Of course these financing instruments can also be combined in order to gain an optimal equilibrium in the balance sheet of a company.