The Company

DEG, member of KfW Bankengruppe, has been financing and structuring investments of private companies in developing and emerging-market countries for nearly 50 years. It invests in projects of companies committed to the principles of good corporate governance. The projects must have a sustainable effect on a country's development, be profitable and ecologically and socially compatible. The aim is to create the basis for sustainable economic growth and thereby achieve a lasting improvement in the living conditions of the local population.

Performance Spectrum

DEG offers private enterprises a multitude of financing products, from equity capital to mezzanine financing, up to guarantees and long-term loans. The financings are customised to the individual project under
consideration of the project and country risks. DEG finances business startups and expansion as well as modernisation investments. DEG's investment managers have a comprehensive know-how on the respective markets, constant contact to local authorities and institutions and many years of experience in project and corporate financing.With offices in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe, DEG is active for its clients on the spot.Moreover, it is represented via KfW Bankengruppe in all continents. In addition DEG participates in the Public Private Partnership programme develoPPP.de of the federal government to support preinvestment and investment-tied projects,which make a contribution to the partner country's development. To qualify, various criteria need to be met. It is important that projects contribute to structural developmental effects in the investment country. DEG bears a proportionate share of the financing up to 200,000 Euros per PPP project. The company itself also has to make a significant contribution both financially – at least an equally large amount – and in terms of personnel, and realises the project at its own responsibility.

DEG in India

DEG has been active in India since 1984. To date it has provided financings to the amount of about 385million Euros for over 60 companies. Private infrastructure projects, e.g. road building or energy generation by means of renewable energies, are particularly promising for investors. The manufacturing industry, information and communications technology, pharmaceutical industry and biotechnology also offer good prospects. Since 2000,DEG has an office in New Delhi, which helps respond to the customers' needs on the spot, makes its profound know-how directly available and provides important contacts to local representatives of trade and industry, institutions and authorities.