Infrastructure & project finance
April 2021 | SPECIAL REPORT: INFRASTRUCTURE & PROJECT FINANCE
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April 2021 Issue
Infrastructure & project finance
Q&A: Advanced analytics in capital projects
FW discusses advanced analytics in capital projects with Anil Chhabria, Hugh Dullage, Hani Girgis and Rob Scopes at Deloitte.
Modernising infrastructure through the lens of smart cities and connected communities
Dentons We find ourselves in the midst of one of the most turbulent eras in recent memory. A convergence of coronavirus (COVID-19), climate change and cyber security challenges, along with severe economic and social disruption everywhere from Minneapolis to Hong Kong…
Digital infrastructure: the invisible partner enabling renewable energy
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Renewable energy technology is some of the best infrastructure America has ever built, California wind power pioneer James Walker is fond of saying. It just needs a few petabytes of data and a lot of analysis to make it perfect. Walker once argued for extending the production tax…
Economic stimulus through PPPs in Latin America: a post-crisis solution?
Egis Projects SA The global health crisis caused by coronavirus (COVID-19) hit the infrastructure sector hard, with a sudden halt in investment and privatisation programmes in 2020. Concessionaires have shifted their focus to contract renegotiation and rebalancing while delaying their capital…
A regional Australian perspective on infrastructure developments
Norton Rose Fulbright According to one of Australia’s leading banks, activity on Australian infrastructure projects worth A$100m or more will rise by an expected A$21bn, year on year, in 2021/22 alone. By 2022/23, the pipeline is forecast to rise to nearly A$93bn for the year. These numbers are…
ESG and the infrastructure sector
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP The emerging environmental, social and governance (ESG) framework has grown rapidly since its early iterations in the form of the Equator Principles and the United Nation’s (UN’s) ‘Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights’. From a regulatory perspective, ESG has…
Blended infrastructure – a winning approach
Global Listed Infrastructure Organisation (GLIO) Blending listed and unlisted infrastructure offers a host of benefits, but many investors still view them separately. We would argue that to harness the full potential of an infrastructure allocation, they need to adapt their thinking. For a rational investor, listed infrastructure…
Will renewable energy assets remain attractive to investors as subsidies fade out?
Kromann Reumert Renewable energy generation assets have become a primary asset class for institutional investors. With the rise of climate change up the political agenda, lots of low-cost capital has lined-up for these assets. However, for many years, investors have invested in these assets…
Conflicts of interest in infrastructure procurement
DLA Piper (Canada) LLP Many procurement processes contain restrictions on conflicts of interest. This article examines the questions of what a conflict of interest is, what impacts a conflict can have on the procurement process, and how the public sector can protect itself against such impacts…
Q&A: Capital projects and infrastructure outlook 2021
FW discusses capital projects and the outlook for infrastructure with D. Brennan Keene at McGuire Woods LLP, Mark Berry at Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, and Lance T. Brasher at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.
CONTRIBUTORS
Deloitte
Dentons
DLA Piper (Canada) LLP
Egis Projects SA
Global Listed Infrastructure Organisation (GLIO)
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
Kromann Reumert
McGuire Woods LLP
Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP