Financial & Strategic Advisory: Expert advice for efficient funding solutions in the rail and logistics sector

A challenging environment needs independent advice to develop promising options in our markets

For good reason, rail and intermodal transport solutions are receiving more recognition and a higher level of attention in our days! Increased appreciation is more than appropriate as
  • Economic pressure is rising,
  • Interest rates and inflation remain being more volatile,
  • Financial markets and financing partners are changing,
  • ESG requirements are in focus, and
  • Companies need to allocate their staff capacity and knowhow to obvious main tasks.

As an independent expert, my only priority is to fully support you.

Why I can help you

Martin metz

Your financing and strategic goals are truly relevant for me. And I will work hard on fully understanding your ideas and transforming them into optimal solutions. And this is why my clients benefit from co-operating with me:

  • I can look back at more than 3 decades of asset finance experience in the sector in Europe, North America and Australia.
  • I am proud of having closed more than 300 transactions for more than €8bn in funding across a range of structured finance deals.
  • My clients include operators, lessors, investors, transport agencies, asset managers etc.
  • The projects range from freight and tank cars, locomotives, passenger trainsets and coaches, to trams, trailers, intermodal chassis, containers and buses.

With my long-standing market coverage, I can efficiently work with my clients on best fitting and appropriate funding arrangements:

  • My personal drivers are efficiency, motivation, communication, innovation and strategy.
  • Solutions could be drawn from a wide array of prominent and successful transactions, incl. asset-based acquisition financings, non-recourse deals, sale&lease back projects, operating lease financings with residual value risk components, green loan arrangements, liquidity facilities and many other projects.

I am a studied economist at the University Mannheim and University of Cologne, Germany, and can look at back working experience at KfW, Credit Suisse – First Boston, DVB Bank, Helaba and in the advisory field.

Professional Services Offered

My specific areas of expertise comprise 3 fields of services:

Financial advisory

  • Fleet financing strategy, adequate financing structures and volumes, identification of optimal debt and equity partners, new sources of funding, available special debt programmes
  • Sourcing of financing offers, evaluation and assessment (pros and cons), optimized parameters and structures, tenders with financiers for improved terms & conditions
  • Term sheet and contractual negotiations until implementation of the transaction (execution and closing)
  • Sustainable Finance and ESG/ Green Finance transactions

Strategy advice on

  • Fleet expansion, positioning, purchases and sales
  • Changes of your market position, regional or sectoral market expansion, idenfication of potential partners/ targets etc.

Management advisory

  • Independent advice to management, advisory boards and councils

Contact

Please get in touch with me – the relevant contact details are the following:

Martin Metz

Advisory & Management

p: +49 173 6511 958

martin@metz-aplusm.com

Frankfurt/ Main region, Germany

VAT-ID. DE367915011

https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-metz-789088206/