10 JUNE, 2024

 Divani Caravel Hotel, Leof. Vasileos Alexandrou 2, Athina 161 21, Greece

Propel Your Career Forward with the Gold Standard in Project Finance Education

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The most exhaustive and highly-renowned project finance training in the industry

Join the ranks of industry elite by enrolling in our gold standard project finance training and propel your career forward and distinguish yourself as a leader in the field! Our course, it provides an incredibly thorough knowledge of project financing, plus an-depth understanding of financial evaluation of limited recourse finance transactions from inception to financial close, to monitoring and repayment. In partnership with CC Solutions, the 1-day course introduces the practical and theoretical elements of different products, policies and applications with real-life examples from senior professionals. So you get focused information which you can apply directly in your role.

This training takes place in the same week as our Proximo Global 2024 event (11-12 June, also in Athens). Discounts are available if you book the main event and training together! Contact us.

Why Attend?

Lenders/ Financial institutions/Financial Advisors/institutional investors | To gain a greater knowledge of rules, requirements and project evaluation and risk assessment how to avoid common pitfalls and misunderstandings that can strain relationships with customers

Suppliers/EPCs | To understand how project finance impacts the EPC process from RPFs through to procurement cycle, learn how to accurately assess eligible content for your buyers, and avoid costly problems during the spend cycle that relate to misunderstanding eligibility.

Developers/Project sponsors| Understand the approval process, compare eligibility requirements among lenders, study how to maximise project financing value, and grasp the risk identification and mitigation process and financial modelling process

Legal teams | To understand the impacts of risk identification in project financing and address any specific questions and concerns to be able to better advise clients on compliance as well as understand potential problems commonly found in meeting project completion and its debt service obligations

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Course Leaders

Francisco Anzola is a finance and project management professional with over 25 years of experience in the banking and the engineering and construction sectors. Francisco is a co-founder of CC Solutions and has global knowledge of ECA rules and eligibility requirements. As a Vice President at Commerzbank AG, New York branch, Francisco originated and executed Export-Import Bank of the United States-guaranteed and limited recourse financing transactions for customers in five continents and across many industrial sectors, including agriculture, oil and gas, manufacturing, and power generation.

Hala El Mohandes has over 20 years’ experience in highly complex international infrastructure projects on a limited recourse project financing basis. This covers business development, negotiations, financial analysis and documentation execution of projects in the oil and gas sector, power generation, petrochemicals and manufacturing. This is coupled with 16 years prior experience in commercial banking in the United States and Egypt. She headed the Project Finance Division of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (US EXIM) until May 2018. She specialized in leading project teams in the structuring, negotiations, financial analysis, processing and closing of complex infrastructure project finance transactions in the oil and gas, power, telecommunications, petrochemical and manufacturing sectors. She successfully closed 28 project finance transactions totaling over USD 16 billion in exposure and covering USD 90 billion in total project costs. As the manager and leader of a transaction team, her work included mobilizing and managing a team of internal and external financial, legal, technical and environmental advisors to conduct due diligence and financial and legal analysis of the complicated issues of a project to bring it to a successful financial close. I lead the extensive negotiations with the borrowers, project sponsors, and co-lenders. Work process includes presenting transactions to the Board of Directors of US EXIM for approval. At the agency she had responsibility for management, guidance and mentoring other senior and junior loan officers in the Structured & Project Finance Division. Work process also covers policy initiatives, advice and implementation of new financing structures, of several US Government and US EXIM mandates related to the promotion of its mission and increasing the global competitiveness of US exports. Following her retirement from US EXIM, Ms. El Mohandes served as Deputy CEO- Project and Export Finance for Carbon Holdings in Egypt and, as part of the CC Solutions team, led the development of a project finance manual, eligibility policy, and practices at Etihad Credit Insurance in the United Arab Emirates. Ms. El Mohandes is fluent in Arabic, English and French.

Venue

The Project Finance Training will take place in Athens. Address: Divani Caravel Leof. Vasileos Alexandrou 2 Athina 161 21 Greece

Please contact Alice Turner if you have any questions about the venue or accommodation.

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Accommodation

We are working to arrange exclusive discounted hotel room rates for attendees of the trainng. Please check back to the website for further information.

Proximo Global 2024

This training takes place in the same week as our 1500 person event - Proximo Global 2024: Energy & Infrastructure Finance Discounts for the training are available for guests of this event.

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