ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explains about the ideas behind an important concept in the global capital markets project finance. This technique is used to fund large capital expenditure projects, usually in the energy or infrastructure arenas. The book reviews various themes and keys to the project finance market views from bankers, lawyers and advisers on bank, bond and multilateral finance and look at environmental, insurance and construction market issues. It also looks at how project finance is used in various sectors of energy and infrastructure market renewable energy, oil and gas, mining, roads and transportation. The project sponsors behind the project company can provide various guarantees on the performance of the project and its project company. The book presents a series of Top 10 deal case studies from the pages of Thomson Reuters Project Finance International (PFI), the leading source of global project finance information.
