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Project Finance: Structuring for Success

Mar 20, 2018

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This Practice Note (i) considers what is meant by “structure” in the context of a project finance transaction and identifies key issues that inform the approach to structuring a project finance transaction, and (ii) looks closely at the Azura Edo independent power project in Nigeria (“Azura Edo IPP”) as a case study to help identify and explain a number of recent and innovative project finance structuring solutions that have been successfully implemented in order to overcome certain identified risks and challenges.

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