Project Finance and Infrastructure Investment

(1.5 Credits)

Project finance is used to finance billions of dollars of capital intensive projects annually This increasingly critical financial technique relies on the cash flows of a specific project not the cash flows of a corporation or third party guarantor to service debt and provide investor returns Not all projects can support project financing Project finance is a specialized financial tool requiring both proper structuring and risk mitigation The purpose of the course is to understand what project finance is why it is used and how it is used Students will learn what the necessary elements are that support the use of project finance to include contractual agreements technology sponsors risk identification and mitigation sources of capital financial structuring the use of financial modeling accounting considerations and tax considerations.