Schedule of ADFIMI Seminar on 'Overview of Project Finance vis á vis Corporate Finance'

SCHEDULE OF ADFIMI SEMINAR

Date & Time

Topic

Faculty

DAY 1: 19 November 2012

8.30 – 9.00

Registration

 

9.00 - 9.30

Welcoming speech

 

Setting the Stage

Session 1
9.30 - 11.00

  • Overview of Project Finance
  • Definition and applications
  • Major Participants
  • Risk sharing mechanism
  • Project finance vs. corporate finance
  • History of large project financing
  • Project finance in modern times
  • Advantages and disadvantages

Dr. M. Fouzul Kabir Khan

11.00 - 11.15

Tea Break

 

Session 2
11.15 – 12.30

  • Government’s perspective
  • Role of government at pre-bid stage
  • Competitive bidding vs. direct negotiation
  • Steps of project development process           
  • Levelized tariff calculation
  • Impact of discounting rate

 

  • Sponsor’s perspective
  • Purpose of developing a project privately
  • Stages of project development
  • Early stage of development
  • Second stage of development
  • Advanced stage of development

Dr. M. Fouzul Kabir Khan

12.30 – 12.45

Quiz 1

 

12.45 – 13.45

Lunch Break

 

Session 3
13.45 – 15.15

  • Sources of Finance
  • Types of financing
  • Sources of financing
  • Comparison of financing sources
  • Special consideration for project financing in developing countries

Mr. Nazmul Haque

15.15 – 15.30

Tea Break

 

Project Agreements

Session 4
15.30 – 17.00

  • Project Agreements
  • Basic document structure
  • Financability of project agreements
  • Risk and mitigation
  • Organizational Documents
  • Key agreements
  • Concession agreement
  • Off-take agreement
  • Cost based contracts
  • EPC contract
  • Input supply contract
  • O&M contract

Mr. Nazmul Haque

 

DAY 2: 20 November 2012

Session 5
9.00 – 10.30

  • Financial Modeling
  • Purpose and Uses of Financial Model
  • Introduction to MS Excel
  • Defining cells
  • Depreciation schedule
  • Annuity
  • Amortization
  • Goal seek function
  • Architecture of a financial model
  • Important concepts of Financial Model
  • Annuity and level principal debt profile
  • Grace/Moratorium
  • Up-front, monitoring, & commitment fees
  • All-in-rate

Mr. Nazmul Haque

10.30 – 10.45

Tea Break

 

Session 6
10.45 – 12.30

  • Financial Modeling (contd.)
  • Important concepts of Financial Model (contd.)
  • Using logical functions
  • Minimum, Maximum, Average and Rank
  • E-function
  • Net present value (”NPV”)
  • Internal rate of return (”IRR”)
  • Return on equity (“ROE”)
  • Switch
  • Developing a Financial Model
  • Golden rules
  • Input / assumption sheet
  • Calculation sheets
  • Sensitivity analysis

Mr. Nazmul Haque

12.30 – 12.45

Quiz 2

 

12.45 – 13.45

Lunch Break

 

Session 7
13.45 – 15.15

  • Credit Enhancements
  • Credit risk
  • Guarantees
  • Credit enhancements provided by private parties
  • Source of guarantees
  • Guarantees: host country
  • Force majeure
  • Guarantees: multilateral institutions
  • Insurance

Dr. M. Fouzul Kabir Khan

15.15 – 15.30

Tea Break

 

Finance Documents

Session 8
15.30 – 17.00

  • Security and Finance Documents
  • Designing Security Package
  • Principal objectives of security
  • Typical components of a security package
    • Definition of legal terms
    • Layered Finance
  • Debt subordination concept
  • Objectives of the two classes of lenders
  • “Deeply” vs. “Standard” subordination
  • Global practice of subordination
  • Inter-creditor agreement
    • Measuring borrowing capacity of the project

Dr. M. Fouzul Kabir Khan

 

DAY 3: 21 November 2012

Session 9
9.00 - 10.30

  • Layered Finance
  • Debt subordination concept
  • Objectives of the two classes of lenders
  • “Deeply” vs. “Standard” subordination
  • Global practice of subordination
  • Inter-creditor agreement
  • Measuring borrowing capacity of the project

Dr. M. Fouzul Kabir Khan

10.30 – 10.45

Tea Break

 

Session 10
10.45 – 12.15

Case Study

Mr. Nazmul Haque

12.15 – 13.00

Evaluation & Certificate Ceremony

 

13.00 – 14.00

Lunch

 

14.00 – 17.00

Social Programme