Project Finance and PPPs: Learn how to structure, finance and value large capital projects. Build and sustain successful PPPs.

The Project Finance and PPPs program focuses on structuring, financing and valuing large capital projects and emphasizes Public Private Partnerships (PPP). Funding large capital expenditure projects delivers high returns but is inherently risky. In the aftermath of the great financial crisis, project failures have generated billions of dollars of losses for the equity sponsors and the creditors. The program provides a framework and methodology to look at project financing as a viable financing option from both the debt and equity perspective. Using case studies, that cover both social and economic infrastructure projects, the program illustrates how and why major infrastructure projects succeed or fail.

How you will benefit

• Understand when to use project finance and how it differs from other corporate finance techniques
• Identify the key financing sources: bank loans, multilateral funding and bond issue
• Structure the financing with a wide variety of financial and industrial participants
• Understand BOTs and Public Private Partnerships (PPPs)
• Conduct the due diligence of a project from a bank’s point of view
• Identify and manage the key risks, specifically the political, construction, market, FX and environmental risks
• Understand the cash flow model and sensitivity analysis
• Recognize the limits of IRR and how it can be manipulated
• Learn how to properly value projects
• Familiarize yourself with new initiatives for infrastructure finance

Program delivery 
The program will be a mixture of lectures, case studies, and practical exercises. Case studies and practical exercises will allow program participants to develop the required skills, and to apply them to specific business situations. Practical examples will allow program participants to better understand drivers of successful PF and PPP investments, and identify risk factors that may jeopardize desired outcomes.