Highlights / Key Themes
- Determining The Future Of Project Finance: When will we see a return to longer tenors? The State of the Union Panel is an annual meeting of the market leading project finance banks.
- Jean-François Grandchamp des Raux, Co-Global Head Of Project Finance, CALYON
- James Courtenay, Global Head of Project & Export Finance, STANDARD CHARTERED BANK
- Noburu Kato, General Manager, Co-Head, Structured Finance, SMBC
- How are major oil and gas companies raising finance for mega projects and how has the financial climate impacted on development and exploration? Find out at the Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals Summit on Monday 15th March 2010
- The Algerian Touat Project
- Structuring the mega PNG LNG project
- Understanding the plans for the Nord Stream pipeline
- Refinancing Structures for the Jubail Refinery
- Where is the money? With over 250 project finance lenders, infrastructure funds, private equity investors, multilateral and Export Credit agencies under one roof, this is the place to find out how today's projects are financed.
- How can you get deals done in the current financial climate? A new interactive discussion format giving delegates the chance to speak to sector and region expert practitioners about their recent experience in structuring deals.
- What is the current shape of the Infrastructure market? Where will incremental funding come from and what is the outlook for debt finance? Come to the new Infrastructure Projects Summit on Thursday 18th March.
An annual highlight of the conference, this panel, is moderated by expert host, Ranald Spiers, INTERNATIONAL POWER, who digs out the true perspective on the current state of the financial markets. This year our experienced project finance bankers will be discussing the outlook for lending, tenors, pricing and underwriting. In 2010 the speakers featuring include:
In 2010 the Oil, Gas and Petrochemicals summit will play host to the market's most experienced project financiers and industry commentators. The summit's 12 sessions will include special focus sessions on the challenges to financing mega projects in a troubled market, consider the world map for global energy, and take a closer look at Oil & Gas projects worldwide, including:
A challenge for today's project sponsors is to understand how attitudes are changing to taking construction, completion and refinancing risk in projects. The Marriott Hotel, Brussels is the one place where all those companies involved in funding and financing greenfield and brownfield projects will gather to assess the opportunities on the market and they present for different investors.
The 2010 Deal Struturing Thinktank is a great opportunity for expert practitioners to share experiences, ideas and key strategies, for successfully raising finance and structuring deals in the current cilmate. Each discussion will be hosted by an ECA, a project sponsor and a multi-lateral lender who have been involved in deal structuring over the last year.
A new feature for 2010, this summit will focus on Raising finance and structuring deals for infrastructure projects. With a spotlight on the hottest areas of development around the world including the USA, The Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe and India, the summit will bring together infrastructure funds, investors and project developers to get into transport and energy infrastructure projects on the horizon.
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James Courtenay
Global Head of Project & Export Finance
STANDARD CHARTERED BANK
James Courtenay was appointed Global Head of Project and Export Finance in January 2009. He manages a team of over 100 professionals based in London, Dubai and Singapore, with additional offices in a variety of locations including New York, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Tokyo, Seoul and Beijing. |
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Noburu Kato
GM, Co-Head, Structured Finance
SMBC
Noburu joined SMBC in 1985 and has over 19 years experience in project finance, based in New York, Hong Kong and Tokyo. He currently oversees project finance (PFI/PPP, Energy, Transport etc.), ECA, advisory, Islamic finance and environmental projects in the EMEA region. |
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Mkhuseli Faku
Group Executive Director
CALULO
Mkhuseli Faku has extensive experience in the South African oil industry. He is a non-executive director of Total South Africa and has been a member of the Executive Committee of the World Petroleum Congress (South Africa), Deputy Chairman of the Nepad Energy Sector Committee and Chairman of the African Minerals and Energy Forum. |
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Noubi Ben Hamida
Corporate & Project Finance
TOTAL
Noubi Ben Hamida is part of Total’s Finance division where he currently oversees for Total the financing of Total’s Jubail Refinery Project JV with Saudi Aramco. Noubi has been with Total for 9 years during which he held several positions in Trading & Shipping and Corporate Finance. He was previously with Société Générale where he spent 6 years in various positions. |
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Martin Lennon
Co-Founder
INFRACAPITAL PARTNERS
Martin Lennon joined M&G Investments in 1998 and has been the Head of Infracapital since its inception in 2005. Martin has accumulated nearly 20 years of infrastructure, project finance and investment experience gained in the corporate and financial sectors. Martin has developed a diversified business investing in infrastructure across a wide range of financial instruments including public bonds, private placements, loans, mezzanine and equity representing a total investment portfolio in... |
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Vishal Joshipura
SVP, Advisory Division
GULF ONE INVESTMENT BANK
Vishal is responsible for execution of project finance advisory assignments across the region. Prior to Gulf One, Vishal worked with Deloitte Infrastructure Advisory where he working on wide-ranging areas like PPP, privatization, public sector reforms, feasibility studies etc. in India and Saudi Arabia. Vishal’s PPP experience in the Middle East includes advising... |
