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North American Merchant Power Deal of the Year 2005
North AmericaNorth American Merchant Power Deal of the Year 2005
North American Single Asset Power Deal of the Year 2005
North AmericaNorth American Single Asset Power Deal of the Year 2005
North American Portfolio Finance Deal of the Year 2005
North AmericaNorth American Portfolio Finance Deal of the Year 2005
North American Infrastructure Deal of the Year 2005
North AmericaNorth American Infrastructure Deal of the Year 2005
North American Transport Deal of the Year 2005
North AmericaNorth American Transport Deal of the Year 2005
North American Oil & Gas Deal of the Year 2005
North AmericaNorth American Oil & Gas Deal of the Year 2005
North American Renewables Deal of the Year 2005
North AmericaNorth American Renewables Deal of the Year 2005
Cerro Verde copper mine expansion - Peru
Oil & Gas Latin AmericaCerro 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
Social & Defence EuropeThe €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
Power EuropeWhen 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
Telecoms EuropeWhen 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
Power Sub-Saharan AfricaThe 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 In the late 1980s, the government of the republic sought to improve its outdated electrical power infrastructure and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
Water MENAThe 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