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Deal analysis

• The deal that tests efficacy of US PPPs

  16 Apr 2013

  An availability-based toll road project in the US reveals that municipal bond investors are willing to accept increasing risks in public-private partnerships

• Rare non-recourse loan boosts Japanese renewables

  12 Apr 2013

  A lack of limited-recourse finance in Japan has stopped foreign investors from taking advantage of the country’s favourable feed-in tariff for renewable energy. But that might change with Shinsei Bank’s latest deal

News analysis

• How to prepare for projects in Africa

  16 May 2013

  Africa’s seemingly unstoppable rise as a global investment hub has led to an increase in the number of complex projects on the resource-rich continent. These are the factors now shaping investor decisions

• Lenders in Africa must look beyond execution

  15 May 2013

  Lenders and bond investors must exercise greater foresight on African deals, by paying closer attention to security risks and intercreditors during negotiations and drafting

• StanChart: how to compete on African syndications

  08 May 2013

  Ahead of IFLR’s second annual Africa Forum, panelist Brian Marcus, director of project and export finance at Standard Chartered, has outlined the legal idiosyncrasies that characterise Africa's maturing syndications market

• Foreign banks pushed out of African syndications

  30 Apr 2013

  The rise of local banks has contributed to foreign lenders’ sliding participation in syndicated lending in Africa. Standard Bank’s investment banking head has warned this trend will continue

• Papua New Guinea: outlook improving?

  16 Apr 2013

  Papua New Guinea is seeing more foreign investment in its vast reserves of natural resources. But investors must be aware of islands’ local legal quirks

• Project finance: how to fill the bank funding void

  16 Apr 2013

  Emerging market banks in Europe, the Middle East and Asia are primed to play a much greater role in large, long-term project financings as western banks retreat

• Thailand PPP law may unleash infrastructure investment

  16 Apr 2013

  Thailand’s new law governing public-private partnerships provides for enormous infrastructure investment, prompting renewed foreign investor interest in the sector

• The project debt boom: pressure points identified

  16 Apr 2013

  Infrastructure debt funds have surged in popularity recently. But there remain questions around what this boom means for banks and how to identify the pressure points for future market development

• A&O, Linklaters lead at IFLR’s European awards

  11 Apr 2013

  Allen & Overy was named International Law Firm of the Year at last night’s IFLR European awards. Linklaters was the other standout firm, taking home three team of the year awards

• NZ’s Open Bank Resolution: a new option for bank reform?

  10 Apr 2013

  Imposing haircuts on Cypriot banks’ depositors drew attention to New Zealand’s Open Bank Resolution. But it might provide a better model for bank resolution