Call for expression of interest JER-003/2

The EIF is a specialised EU institution dedicated to improving the provision of finance to SMEs across Europe. It is partly owned by the European Investment Bank (64%), the European Commission (27%) and a growing number of public and private entities (9%). Across a period of 15 years, the EIF has developed specialist competence in working with Financial Intermediaries (FIs) such as banks and venture capital fund management companies, to support and enable greater provision of finance to SMEs than the private market can do alone.

The Government of the Republic of Latvia has contracted the EIF, to benefit from its expertise and experience, to implement the JEREMIE initiative in the Republic of Latvia, acting through the JEREMIE Holding Fund (JHF).

Acting through the JHF, EIF will select, under this Call for Expressions of Interest (Call for EoI), qualified Financial Intermediaries, which will receive commitments to implement the Funded Risk Sharing Financial Instrument for a total indicative capital allocation of EUR 52 million.

The Expressions of Interest shall be submitted on or before the Deadline both by (i) e-mail and (ii) registered mail or professional courier service.

The Deadline for the submission of Expressions of Interest is the 3rd of June, 2009.

The Expressions of Interest shall indicate the reference number of the Call (No. JER-003/2) and the name of the Applicant and shall be sent to the following mail address:

European Investment Fund
To the attention of the Regional Business Development Unit
96 Boulevard Konrad Adenauer
L-2968 Luxembourg

The outer envelope (package) shall indicate the following:

“Expression of Interest – Reference number of the Call (No. JER-003/2) – Not to be opened by the reception – To be passed without opening to Regional Business Development Unit”.
e-mail: info.rbd@eif.org
To the kind attention of the Regional Business Development Unit, JER-003/2