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Project Finance 730836

Objectives

A student who has successfully completed this subject should:

  • Understand the nature of project financing
  • Understand critical commercial and financial objectives
  • Understand key legal issues and structural arrangements
  • Understand particular applications to mineral, energy and infrastructure projects.
Syllabus

Principal topics will include:

  • Characteristics of suitable projects
  • Characteristics of project financing in Australia
  • Project financing techniques Identification of risk and techniques for allocation of risk
  • Structuring financing requirements for a project
  • Contractual arrangements
  • Project financing default and remedies
  • Case studies of project financing in mineral, energy and infrastructure sectors.