I have an existing business (1.5 years) which has about 4mil baht in equipment. I would like to open a new business and use the equipment as collateral for a loan. Is this possible? Also, my thai shareholder would be willing to do it in his name if required.

Thanks

without knowing the details of your accounting,, but the answer is yers as long as your company complies with thai law and your thai shareholders agree..

dont expect a high % loan though ??

Quite similar to a question I posed but whilst the banks publish the maximum LTV they will take on for houses (generally 80% or thereabouts) and the income cover they want (around 250% of free income for the housing loan) they don't put anything out for commercial loans. They say they loan against assets but yours is a depreciating asset. If you bought it 2 years ago for 4m then is it worth 2m ? and if you had to sell it could you raise 500k for it ? If you could raise 500k then they would still need to depreciate it further during the period of the loan so that if the loan was 2 years and the future value in 2 years would be 250k then perhaps they might lend 40% of that so 100k ?

No idea on the actual numbers but the principle would be similar.