GREEN METROPOLE FUND

approved

The project consists of financing the Green Metropole Fund, a regional investment platform sponsored by the Port of Amsterdam and managed by e3 Partners, a Dutch private fund manager. The EIB loan will leverage the investment capacity of the fund's investors towards small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and small projects in the important sectors of circular economy, renewable energy and energy efficiency. These projects have difficulties in accessing adequate financing, in particular due to their long-term nature and a frequent mismatch between their levels of risk and the risk appetite of private investors and lenders. The fund will deploy a large spectrum of financial instruments: primarily senior and subordinated debt as well as mezzanine and equity financing.