Companies often require more financial resources to realise their expansion plans than their owners bring in as capital. Debt is naturally an important source of funds, but there are limits to the financing companies can obtain. Besides, while bank credits provide leverage, they ought to fuel your working capital and should not be used as a substitute for equity.
Opening up the capital to external private equity providers is a common way of raising capital to finance expansion, restructure operations or prepare an exit. Companies might also decide to perform a fresh issue of securities by going public.
BNP Paribas Fortis is well-positioned to help companies with equity raising and public offerings. We also have access to top-tier institutional investors, which allows us to swiftly execute primary and secondary offerings, private placements and block trades, for both listed and unlisted companies.