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16 April 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
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12 April 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
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05 February 2013
The $3.2 billion financing secured by Brazilian-Mexican consortium, Braskem Idesa, for Mexico’s Etileno XXI petrochemicals complex signals a national policy shift. Here's how thus could accommodate a broader role for private capital in Mexico
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04 February 2013
Russia’s biggest ever public private partnership (PPP) has closed, setting important precedents for structuring projects involving business and governments in the region
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04 February 2013
The financing of the Patrind hydropower reveals how to complete deals in a challenging frontier jurisdiction
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18 January 2013
At $20 billion, the Ichthys LNG project is the biggest financing arranged in the international markets. The deal also signals a fundamental shift in project finance, with deal counsel expecting more complex deals ahead
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07 January 2013
Bank of America's $726 million loan to the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina demonstrates a radical shift toward major international lenders
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10 December 2012
The approval of South Africa’s first large-scale renewable projects establishes a roadmap for the completion of energy deals in the country. Here deal counsel outline the precedents set
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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
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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
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16 April 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
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16 April 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
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16 April 2013
Thailand’s new law governing public-private partnerships provides for enormous infrastructure investment, prompting renewed foreign investor interest in the sector
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16 April 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
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28 March 2013
The completion of a flagship solar project in Abu Dhabi and a recent white paper on renewable energy in Saudi Arabia suggest there is more to come
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19 February 2013
Japan’s feed-in tariff scheme to incentivise renewable energy investment has been in effect since last July. But foreign firms haven’t taken advantage of its benefits
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18 January 2013
The US government’s decision to renew the wind production tax credit (PTC) programme as part of last month’s fiscal cliff deal will create a burst of new wind projects in 2013
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17 January 2013
With the US forecasted to overtake rivals Russia and Saudi Arabia as the world’s leading oil producer by 2017, lawyers expect furious battles on sector’s regulation in the coming year
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10 December 2012
The construction of a new Mexican natural gas pipeline has established a new role for project finance counsel in the region.