Chapter 5

Working with Lenders

This chapter covers the procedures for raising project finance from private-sector lenders, in particular commercial banks (§5.2) and bondholders (§5.3), with a comparison between the two (§5.4). Lenders’ ‘due diligence’ processes, and the rôles of their various external advisors are also discussed (§5.5). §5.6 covers the ways in which a Contracting Authority interacts with bidders’ lenders in a public-procurement process.

Keywords

private sector lenders; project-finance debt; bank loans; bond issuance; lender due diligence; public procurement; external advisors

§5.1 Introduction

This chapter covers the procedures for raising project finance from private-sector lenders, in particular commercial banks (§5.2) and bondholders ...

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