ABACUS Financial Services AG
The smart alternative to private equity for upper mid-market companies
Additional liquidity without giving up company shares.
It's your company. You've built it up over many years. It has grown and flourished, there were difficult times, resistance, obstacles, even setbacks. But also small and big victories, progress, continuous growth.
You have every reason to be proud! Of your work, your achievement. You want – and need – to keep growing, so your company can hold its own in the market and remain a home for generations to come.
To keep growing, you need additional growth capital and a strong, creative and reliable sparring partner at your side, supporting you through good times and bad.
We are ABACUS
The Growth Financier for Upper Mid-Market Companies
What we do
ABACUS is the owner-managed growth financier for upper mid-market companies that you can count on. We offer creative concepts and alternative financing solutions beyond classic financing models.
We provide corporate groups with growth capital and additional liquidity – with individual solutions that the traditional financing market cannot or will not offer. Based on unencumbered collateral, we specialise in financing foreign and intercompany receivables – including investments across different jurisdictions, transnationally, multinationally – with no general country exclusions! For example, leasing and factoring solutions to pre-finance subsidiaries based worldwide, or sales financing concepts to boost revenue.
We create liquidity, you grow – without giving up company shares and, with them, future profits. Unlike private equity, there are no voting rights and no profit participation.
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What we do not do
We are not brokers, loan intermediaries or providers of debt or equity capital.
We take no commissions and no brokerage fees. We don't make you dependent on us – instead, we work together with your house banks, not against them.
We don't make decisions „by the book“, have no bureaucratic mindset, and don't send you junior staff who aren't allowed to decide anything themselves.
We don't demand any say in your business decisions.
We are not the emergency doctor for insolvent companies.
How we tick
We are a creative, well-rehearsed and powerful team with over 25 years of professional experience.
We wanted to move away from standardized procedures and hierarchical red tape, and do our „own thing“ instead – and that's exactly what we do. We've been successful in the market with ABACUS for over 10 years, unfazed by highs, lows and pandemics, and every day excited about what we achieve for our clients.
Your success is our success. Challenge us!
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How we protect you from crises
Because we see ourselves as your partner, we keep an eye not only on your short-term financing needs but on your long-term success. We supply your company with additional growth capital based on existing company assets, which lead to additional revenue and earnings through economies of scale.
By cooperating with ABACUS, you permanently improve your financial metrics and, with them, your credit rating, so future crises can affect you less.
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Who our customers are
Our typical partners are capital-intensive production or trading companies from the German-speaking upper mid-market with an international focus and annual revenues typically between 100 and 300 million euros. They are mostly privately held, often family businesses, and not listed on the capital markets. Their business model has proven itself over the years, is strongly internationally oriented and has further growth potential.
To finance their growth and secure their business, our partners require additional liquid funds, typically averaging between 1 and 30 million euros per year.
They are not interested in bringing in additional equity investors such as private equity firms, as they want to remain in charge and keep future profits for themselves. They are therefore looking for alternative financing that enables further growth without giving up their independence.
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ABACUS | What our solutions can look like
- You regularly supply parts or machinery to subsidiaries, intermediaries or end customers – worldwide, by land, air or sea.
- Your invoices have payment terms of 60–240 days. ABACUS purchases these receivables shortly after shipment.
- Self-manufactured machinery and equipment can be financed across borders via sale-and-lease-back.
- Either way, you stay liquid and permanently increase revenue and earnings.
Leasing financing volume:
From 1 million EUR
per contract with a term of up to 54 months
Factoring financing volume:
From 10 million EUR p.a.
with a term of up to 240 days
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Countries
Financing restrictions: worldwide, with no general limitations
Voices of our partners
We are your partner.
ABACUS has stood by us even in difficult times during the Pandemic.
Thanks to our cooperation with ABACUS, we were able to fully get back on track after the COVID pandemic and seize our market opportunities.
What can we do for you?
Get in touch if your company has a persistently high need for liquidity to keep growing your business and your own cash flow isn't enough for further growth – or if you'd simply rather keep your powder dry.
The next step is a thorough needs analysis, followed by a cooperation agreement with ABACUS.
And if there's a way to supply you with fresh capital to increase your revenue and earnings, we'll find it!