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Project Finance features complete strategies to mitigate large project financing from start to finish with a step by step process and a complete system for securing the financing for large projects.
In project finance, the loan structure relies primarily on the project’s cash flow for repayment, with the project’s assets, rights, and interests serving as secondary collateral.
This approach is especially attractive to the private sector because companies can fund major projects off-balance sheet (OBS), meaning the debt used to fund the project does not appear on the company’s balance sheet and has no impact on its credit rating or borrowing capacity.
* Project finance is a method to fund large-scale, long-term infrastructure and capital-intensive projects, which can involve both public and private sector participation.
* Project financing often utilizes a nonrecourse or limited-recourse financial structure,
which means repayment depends on the project’s cash flow.
* A debtor with a nonrecourse loan can’t be pursued for any additional payment beyond the seizure of the asset.2Internal Revenue Service. “Recourse vs. Nonrecourse Debt.”
* Project debt is usually kept off the parent company’s balance sheet by being held in a separate subsidiary.
The Parties
1. Contractor Sponsors: These sponsors provide subordinated or unsecured debt and/or equity and are crucial to the project’s establishment and operation.
2. Financial Sponsors: These include investors who are mainly focused on achieving a big return on their investment.
3. Industrial Sponsors: These are companies with a strategic interest in the project, as the project may align with their core business.
4. Public Sponsors: These sponsors include governments from various levels.
The project finance structure for a build, operate, and transfer (BOT) project includes multiple key elements. Project finance for BOT projects generally includes an SPV. The company’s sole activity is carrying out the project by subcontracting most aspects through construction and operations contracts.
Since new-build projects don’t generate revenue during the construction phase, debt service begins only in the operations phase.
This creates significant risks during the construction phase, as the only revenue stream might come from an offtake agreement or power purchase agreement. Because there’s limited or no recourse to the project’s sponsors, company shareholders are typically liable up to the extent of their investment. This structure keeps the project off the balance sheets of both the sponsors and the government, minimizing financial risk.
Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV)
A special purpose vehicle is a subsidiary created by a parent company to isolate financial risk. It’s also called a special purpose entity (SPE).
Its legal status as a separate company makes its obligations secure even if the parent company goes bankrupt. A special purpose vehicle is sometimes referred to as a bankruptcy-remote entity for this reason.
These vehicles can become a financially devastating way to hide company debt if accounting loopholes are exploited, as seen in the 2001 Enron scandal.
* An SPV is created as a separate company with its own balance sheet to isolate financial risk.
* A corporation might use an SPV to undertake a risky venture while reducing any
negative financial impact on the parent company and its investors.
* The SPV may also be a holding company for the securitization of debt.
* SPVs are often used by venture capitalists to consolidate a pool of capital to invest
in a startup.
* SPVs have been used by companies to hide financial losses.
Build-Operate-Transfer Contract: Definition, Risks, and Framework
What Is a Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) Contract?
A build-operate-transfer (BOT) contract is a model used to finance large projects, typically infrastructure projects developed through public-private partnerships.
The BOT scheme refers to the initial concession by a public entity such as a local government to a private firm to both build and operate the project in question. After a set time frame, typically two or three decades, control of the project is returned to the public entity.
Nonrecourse Project Financing
When a company defaults on a loan, recourse financing gives lenders full claim to shareholders’ assets or cash flow. In contrast, project financing designates the project company as a limited liability SPV. If the project company defaults, the lenders’ recourse is thus limited primarily or entirely to the project’s assets, including completion and performance guarantees and bonds.
A key consideration in nonrecourse financing is whether there are circumstances under which lenders could access shareholders’ assets. For example, if shareholders deliberately breach the terms of the agreement, the lender may have recourse to their assets.
Applicable law may restrict the extent to which shareholder liability may be limited. For example, liability for personal injury or death is typically not subject to elimination. Nonrecourse debt is characterized by high capital expenditures (CapEx), long loan periods, and uncertain revenue streams. Underwriting these loans requires financial modeling skills and sound knowledge of the underlying technical domain.
To reduce the risk of deficiency balances, lenders typically limit loan-to-value (LTV) ratios to 60% in nonrecourse loans. As a result, borrowers face stricter credit standards, and the loans carry higher interest rates than recourse loans, reflecting their greater risk.
Under a build-operate-transfer (BOT) contract, an entity—usually a government—grants a concession to a private company to finance, build, and operate a project. The company operates the project for a period of time (typically 20 or 30 years) with the goal of recouping its investment, then transfers control of the project back to the public entity.
BOT projects are normally large-scale, greenfield infrastructure projects that would otherwise be financed, built, and operated solely by the government. Examples include a highway in Pakistan, a wastewater treatment facility in China, and a power plant in the Philippines.
In general, BOT contractors are special-purpose companies formed specifically for a given project. During the project period—when the contractor is operating the project it has built—revenues usually come from a single source, an offtake purchaser with a binding agreement. This may be a government or state-owned enterprise.
Power Purchase Agreements in which a government utility acts as offtaker and purchases electricity from a privately owned plant, are an example of this arrangement. Under a traditional concession, the company would sell directly to consumers without a government intermediary.
BOT agreements often stipulate minimum prices the offtaker must pay.
Variations on the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) Contract
A number of variations on the basic BOT model exist.
Under build-own-operate-transfer (BOOT) contracts, the contractor owns the project during the project period. Meanwhile, under build-lease-transfer (BLT) contracts, the government leases the project from the contractor during the project period and takes charge of the operation.
Other variations have the contractor design as well as build the project. One example is a design-build-operate-transfer (DBOT) contract.
Recourse Loans vs. Nonrecourse Loans
If two people purchase large assets, such as homes, and one has a recourse loan while the other has a nonrecourse loan, the financial institution’s actions against each borrower will differ.
In both cases, the homes may be collateral, meaning they can be seized should either borrower default. To recoup costs when the borrowers default, the financial institutions can attempt to sell the homes and use the sale price to pay down the associated debt. However, if the homes are sold for less than the amount owed, the lender can pursue the borrower with a recourse loan for the remaining debt. In contrast, the borrower with the nonrecourse loan can’t be held liable for any additional payment beyond the seizure of the property.
Project finance is a way for companies to raise money to realize opportunities for growth. This type of funding is generally meant for large, long-term projects. It relies on the project’s cash flows to repay sponsors or investors.
What Are the Risks Associated With Project Finance?
Some risks associated with project finance include volume, financial, and operational risk. Volume risk can be attributed to supply or consumption changes, competition, or changes in output prices. Inflation, foreign exchange, and interest rates often lead to financial risk. A company’s operating performance often defines operational risk, the cost of raw materials, and maintenance, among others.
Project finance can be very capital-intensive and risky, and it relies on the project’s cash flow for repayment in the future. On the other hand, corporate finance focuses on boosting shareholder value through various strategies, such as capital investment and taxation. Unlike project financing, shareholders receive an ownership stake in the company with corporate financing.
Some of the key features of corporate financing include:
A company’s capital structure, which is a company’s funding of its operations and growth. The distribution of dividends, which represent a portion of the profits generated by a company and paid to shareholders.
The management of working capital, or money used to fund a company’s day-to-day operations.
What Is Corporate Finance?
Corporate finance is a subfield of finance that deals with how corporations address funding sources, capital structuring, accounting, and investment decisions.
Corporate finance is also often concerned with maximizing shareholder value through long- and short-term financial planning and implementing various strategies. Corporate finance activities range from capital investment to tax considerations.
A. Corporate finance is concerned with how businesses fund their operations to
maximize profits and minimize costs.
B. It deals with the day-to-day demands on business cash flows and long-term
financing goals (e.g., issuing bonds).
C. Corporate finance also involves monitoring cash flows, accounting, preparing
financial statements, and taxation. Determining whether or not to issue a dividend
is another corporate finance activity.
D. Corporate finance jobs can pay attractive salaries.
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