Product Overview
The Second Edition of this best-sellingintroduction for practitioners uses new material and updates to describethe changing environment for project finance. Integrating recent developments in credit markets with revised insights into making project finance deals, the second edition offers a balanced view of project financing by combininglegal, contractual, scheduling, and other subjects.Itsemphasis onconcepts and techniques makes it critical for those who want to succeed infinancing large projects. Withextensive cross-references and a comprehensive glossary,the Second Edition presents anew a guide to the principles and practical issues that can commonly causedifficulties in commercial and financial negotiations.
- Provides a basic introduction to project finance and its relationship with other financing techniques
- Describes and explains: sources of project finance; typical commercial contracts (e.g., for construction of the project and sale of its product or services) and their effects on project-finance structures; project-finance risk assessment from the points of view of lenders, investors, and other project parties; how lenders and investors evaluate the risks and returns on a project; the rle of the public sector in public-private partnerships and other privately-financed infrastructure projects; how all these issues are dealt with in the financing agreements
