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Project Finance Advisory Unit

The Project Finance Advisory (PFA) unit assists clients in optimally structuring and identifying financing needs for projects to facilitate the successful closure of a transaction. The PFA unit can identify and provide expertise concerning a client's project financing, debt and equity funding, monetizing, risk finance, political risk management and technical services, including solutions to greenhouse gas issues.

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  • One point of access to a wide-range of financial services that banks and financial institutions rely on to measure risk and confidence in a corporation
  • Access to external funding sources for debt and/or equity; investment due diligence
  • Advise on monetizing of certain off-take agreements (guaranteeing cash flow and opening a separate funding source)
  • Provide expertise on financing of risks traditionally considered “uninsurable”
  • Provision of environmental risk management and insurance
  • Underwriting of political risk insurance for a project and parties involved
  • Technical servicing from a wide-range of technical consultants to help with valuation, cash flow and benchmarking
 
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Funding
PFA can help clients access internal and external funding sources, which can provide debt and/or equity for projects worldwide. Separate due diligence can be conducted to assess an investment.

Monetizing
PFA can advise clients on how to monetize certain off-take agreements, providing a measure of comfort to lenders by guaranteeing a foreseeable cash flow in addition to opening a separate funding source.

Risk Finance
PFA can advise clients on how to secure alternative solutions to finance risks that are uninsurable via traditional routes.

Environmental Insurance Solutions
PFA connects clients to environmental audit evaluations and insurance to transfer environmental liabilities that can impede certain transactions.

Political Risk
Political risk insurance can be provided for:
• Contractors
• Equity investors
• Financial institutions
• Importers and exporters
• Projects

Technical Services
PFA can provide access to a wide range of technical and assessment services designed to generate the information funding sources need to determine the risk involved in project financing. Services can also help clients establish value, improve cash flow and/or compare operations to peer group performance. Services include:
• Technical evaluations
• Asset valuation
• Operating and maintenance efficiency

Energy Efficiency/Emission Reduction
PFA can support programs that increase energy efficiency, which thereby help reduce emissions in the refining, petrochemical, power generation and pipeline sector.