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North American Merchant Power Deal of the Year 2005

North American Merchant Power Deal of the Year 2005

North American Single Asset Power Deal of the Year 2005

North American Single Asset Power Deal of the Year 2005

North American Portfolio Finance Deal of the Year 2005

North American Portfolio Finance Deal of the Year 2005

North American Infrastructure Deal of the Year 2005

North American Infrastructure Deal of the Year 2005

North American Transport Deal of the Year 2005

North American Transport Deal of the Year 2005

North American PPP Deal of the Year 2005

North American PPP Deal of the Year 2005

North American Oil & Gas Deal of the Year 2005

North American Oil & Gas Deal of the Year 2005

North American Renewables Deal of the Year 2005

North American Renewables Deal of the Year 2005

Cerro Verde copper mine expansion - Peru

Cerro Verde’s US$850 million mine expansion financing included the largest project financing for a mining project in Latin America in 2005 – US$450 million. In doing so it brought together Japanese export credit agency JBIC commercial banks, kfW – with a

Barcelona's pioneering justice PPP

The €325m (US$385m) Barcelona Judicial Courts PPP project is the pioneer of non-road project finance in Spain. Even if it closed on at the end of last year, its path since it was awarded more than two years ago is that of a true pathfinder deal in the Ibe

The long and winding road: Maritsa East 1 Power Project, Bulgaria

When AES bought out the parties that were to develop a 600MW coal-fired power plant in Bulgaria back in the late 1990s it didn't expect it would be another six years before the financing would be inked.

The UK MoD's Skynet 5 restructuring

When the MoD closed the UK's Skynet 5 - the country's largest PFI project of all time - it was immediately apparent that it needed to be bigger yet. And that was what prompted its restructure. A value-for-money, cutting edge refinancing was exactly what t

The pitfalls of project finance in developing states

The Republic of Seychelles is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, north east of Madagascar with a population of only around 81,000 people. In the late 1980s, the government of the republic sought to improve its outdated electrical power infrastructure and

Israel’s Ashkelon desalination DBFO project

The question of water - where should it be obtained from, who should manage it, how much is really needed - has long got people hot under the collar in the Middle East and Israel is no exception. But with the start of operations at Ashkelon - the Israeli

Quito Airport: Ecuadorian epic

Quito Airport: Ecuadorian epic