PROJECT FINANCE
Since 1993 Albion has been operating in the Project Finance sector supporting clients throughout all the phases of ventures concerning the construction and management of public infrastructures financed with private capital.
Business idea
Bankability
Financial Closing
Albion is mainly involved with clients right from the early stages of each project development: over the years, Albion has established strong relationships with clients, based on mutual trust and on a risk sharing attitude.
Brainstorming phase
- Participation in working groups set up by the Client for the evaluation of a specific project
- Support in the realization of the project
- Risk and opportunity analysis related to the project
- Involvement in the evaluation process of the project finalized to assume the go/not go decision
Over the years, Albion has developed vast expertise in the economic/financial evaluation of infrastructure projects and in the definition of their bankability conditions.
Projects evaluation and bankability
- Build-up and subsequent updating of the financial model
- Optimization of the financing structure
- Sensitivity analysis, aimed at testing/stressing the project’s economic and financial profile
Focus on contractual soundness
- Contractual risks analysis and identification of the relevant mitigating circumstances
- Assisting Clients in public tender procedures
- Assisting Clients in the negotiation of project contracts and concession agreements
- Identification of “equity investor” to boost the project capital structure
Albion focuses on the optimisation of the financial and contractual structure, helping project sponsors to go hrough
the complex negotiations with lenders.
Banking of the project
- Drafting the project Information Memorandum and relevant Term Sheet
- Support in the selection of lenders
- Support during meetings with banks
Project financing negotiation
- Coordination of all relevant parties during the due-diligence process
- Assistance in the definition of key project contracts (EPC and O&M contracts)
- Negotiation of loan agreement and related Security Package
- Assistance up to first drawdown under loan agreements (conditions precedent)
- + Business idea development
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Albion is mainly involved with clients right from the early stages of each project development: over the years, Albion has established strong relationships with clients, based on mutual trust and on a risk sharing attitude.
Brainstorming phase
- Participation in working groups set up by the Client for the evaluation of a specific project
- Support in the realization of the project
- Risk and opportunity analysis related to the project
- Involvement in the evaluation process of the project finalized to assume the go/not go decision
- + Feasibility analysis
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Over the years, Albion has developed vast expertise in the economic/financial evaluation of infrastructure projects and in the definition of their bankability conditions.
Projects evaluation and bankability
- Build-up and subsequent updating of the financial model
- Optimization of the financing structure
- Sensitivity analysis, aimed at testing/stressing the project’s economic and financial profile
Focus on contractual soundness
- Contractual risks analysis and identification of the relevant mitigating circumstances
- Assisting Clients in public tender procedures
- Assisting Clients in the negotiation of project contracts and concession agreements
- Identification of “equity investor” to boost the project capital structure
- + Financial Structuring
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Albion focuses on the optimisation of the financial and contractual structure, helping project sponsors to go hrough
the complex negotiations with lenders.Banking of the project
- Drafting the project Information Memorandum and relevant Term Sheet
- Support in the selection of lenders
- Support during meetings with banks
Project financing negotiation
- Coordination of all relevant parties during the due-diligence process
- Assistance in the definition of key project contracts (EPC and O&M contracts)
- Negotiation of loan agreement and related Security Package
- Assistance up to first drawdown under loan agreements (conditions precedent)