Enhance the checklists and benchmark metrics to reduce losses and gain credibility in both the management and regulatory community

Address Key Issues

Understand the implications of Covid-19 of project finance

Gain A Full Understanding

Gain insights into the industry from a veteran with 30+ years industry experience

Key Takeaways

Best practices in PPP and infrastructure finance

Gain a full understanding of project finance

The objective is to provide participants with an enhanced understanding of the role of project finance and the commercial requirements of all interested parties to the project. This programme provides you with project financing skills you can immediately use upon return to your workplace. You will learn to use demonstrated analytical strategies which will enable you to assess the degree of risk and benefits of specific project financing, along with the elements of the day-to-day business and operational aspects.

IN JUST 3 DAYS YOU WILL:

  • Gain an appreciation of why and how project finance is undertaken, identifying specific industrial sectors where Project Finance techniques can and are applied worldwide
  • Be able to assess the commercial and strategic objectives of the parties involved in a project finance deal
  • Gain the tools to approach both banks and equity providers for project finance
  • Be able to develop a risk analysis of a range of different project finance deals and determine appropriate risk mitigants

MEET YOUR TRAINER

After having worked on a range of commodity and energy derivative contracts for the London Commodity Exchange, in the 1990s he set up his own consultancy, developing particular expertise in infrastructure development, where he has advised institutions including banks, developers and governments worldwide. He has also published a number of technical books, including on financial modelling, derivatives, and forecasting.

He regularly presents seminars on a range of topics, with a particular interest in developing country infrastructure, renewable and project finance, modelling and valuation, to international firms, banks, and public-sector agencies including ministries, central banks and sovereign wealth funds.

Organisations that will benefit:

  • Governments
  • Regulators
  • Sponsor and Construction Companies
  • Legal and Accountancy Firms
  • Investment Banks
  • Retail Banks
  • Consultancies
  • Equity Sponsors
  • Corporates
  • Investors

Who will attend:

  • Directors
  • Accountants
  • Lawyers
  • Trade Finance Managers
  • Portfolio Management Personnel
  • Credit Function Staff
  • Business Development Executives
  • Offtakers
  • Policymakers

COURSE AGENDA

Day 1: Project Finance in Theory and Practice ⇓

  • What is Project Finance?
  • Case Study: Constraints on project finance
  • Advantages and disadvantages of project finance
  • Case Study: Choosing project vs corporate finance
    Project Finance – the Parties
  • Case Study: Differentiation between oil and gas, mining and power projects – examples and applications
  • Making the case for project finance
  • Case Study: Forecasting power and aviation demand
  • Group Discussion: the contribution of infrastructure to economic development
  • Stages in the Deal
  • Case Study: How to benchmark a major industry
  • Group Exercise: Putting together a project finance deal
  • Delegates will take different roles and perspectives to develop and sell a project finance deal for a mining company

Day 2: Funding and Structuring a Project Finance Deal ⇓

  • Sources of Funding
  • Case Study: Role of the IFC and other multilateral institutions in infrastructure development
  • Bank Lending
  • Case Study: Formulation and examination of bank lending ratios
  • Other issues: surplus cash flows, lock-ups, cash sweeps
  • Case Study: Infrastructure bond finance – the major alternative to the banks?
  • Group Exercise: Presenting a project finance proposal to a bank. Delegates will compete to obtain bank funding for a series of different project finance opportunities, assembling data, and using a range of techniques to attract funding
  • Third-party investment in project finance deals
  • Case Study: Infrastructure Investment Funds
  • Group Exercise: Continuing the exercise above, delegates will present to an infrastructure fund for third party investment

Day 3: Project Finance Documentation and Risk Analysis ⇓

  • Project Finance Documentation
  • Case Study: FIDIC contracts
  • Due diligence assessment and risk
  • Case Study: Evaluating a World Bank/IFC Proposal
  • Analysing Risks
  • Case Study: Examples of project finance models
  • Sensitivity analysis, scenarios and Monte Carlo
  • Risk management strategies
  • Examples of risks and their management in project finance
  • Dispute resolution and arbitration
  • Course Conclusion: Infrastructure finance in the first quarter of the 21st Century

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