Introduction to Project Finance

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Agenda for Introduction to Project Finance

8.30     Registration & Coffee

9.10     Project Finance - Who does it and why?

·         The BOT star

·         The types of parties that get involved

·         The types of assets lend themselves to project financing

 10.00              The Project Agreement and Procurement

·         The government or procuring party's perspective

·         The bidder’s perspective

·         The funder’s perspective 

 10.45              Morning Coffee

 11.00              Brief Presentation on Risk Allocation

·         Principles of project risk identification, mitigation and allocation

·         Key project finance / bankability fundamentals

·         Preparing for the risk exercise 

 12.00              Risk

·         Allocating risk workshop involving delegate participation

 12.45              Networking Lunch

 13.45              Risk (continued)

            Allocating risk workshop involving delegate participation

 14.30              The Finance Documents

·         An introduction to credit agreements, multi source financing structures and a discussion of their principal terms

 15.10              Afternoon Tea

 16.15              Security including Direct Agreements

·         This session will cover direct agreements between lenders and a project’s key commercial counterparties, and the nature and extent of the covenants that they typically contain

 17.00              Close of Masterclass