Course length: 2-5 days
Course description
The financing and development of critical infrastructure is a complex, risky endeavor involving many disparate stakeholders. This course focuses on the early stage planning, financial structuring and risk assessment of critical infrastructure necessary to set large, long term capital intensive projects up for success.
Who should Attend
· Finance professionals from the private and public sectors, and from energy industries more especially the renewable energy sector.
· Government officials
· Equity investors and sponsors
· Project finance advisors within banks
· Developers
· Engineers
· Lawyers and legal advisors
· Auditors and risk managers
What you will learn
· Participants will learn how project and infrastructure finance plays a key role in emerging markets. You discover the distinctive issues that arise in Kenya and internationally, such as how governments can use project finance to gain multinational sponsors while focusing on the specifics of Public Private Partnerships and Private Finance Initiatives.
· Creating value through project and infrastructure finance
· Project versus corporate finance
· Financing, valuing and structuring large- scale infrastructure projects
· Analysing project risks and rewards
· Optimally restructuring projects in distress
· Public-private Partnerships (PPP) and private finance initiatives (PFI)
· Project finance in emerging markets.
Course Outline
· The roles of project and infrastructure finance in emerging markets
· Bond financing for infrastructure projects
· Financial modelling for infrastructure investment
· Revenue or demand risk for renewable energy projects
· Infrastructure allocations for institutional investors
· Default risk in project finance
· Technology risk and project finance
· Early stage project development
· Project company legal agreements and structuring
· Private infrastructure fund management structuring
· Infrastructure procurement via public-private partnerships