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Project finance and infrastructure deal resources

Project finance funds a power plant, toll road or pipeline from the cash that project itself will produce. The reading list below covers the contract structure, the debt model and a database of real deals by country and sector.

What this career involves

What professionals do
Arrange the debt and equity that pay for large assets such as power plants, roads and airports.
Skills that help
  • Cash flow waterfalls
  • Debt sizing and ratios
  • Contracts and risk allocation
  • Project modeling
Typical routes in
Banks, development lenders, infrastructure funds and advisory firms hire for these roles, and many people enter through banking, engineering or energy backgrounds.

Who this fits

Students drawn to energy, transportation and public-sector deals, and anyone who has been asked to model debt service for a single asset.

A learning sequence

  1. Read how a public-private partnership is structured, then draw the parties and the cash flows on one page.
  2. Build the cash waterfall in a free modeling course before you attempt circular debt sculpting.
  3. Pick one project from a deals database and read what it cost and who financed it.

The resources

Links go to the original publisher. Check current pricing and access on each site. Nothing here promises an interview, an offer or earnings.

Build the course skills behind it

Questions

Quick answers.

How is project finance different from corporate finance?

Lenders look at one project's cash flow rather than the whole company's balance sheet. Debt is sized to the project's ability to repay it.

What is debt sculpting?

Setting each year's debt payment so it matches the cash the project can safely pay, instead of using equal payments.

Do these skills transfer to other jobs?

Cash flow modeling and debt analysis transfer to banking, credit and corporate finance roles.

Need a hand with the course side?

Finance coursework and technical interview prep.

Resources only go so far when a concept will not click. I tutor corporate finance and accounting one-on-one on Zoom, and I run focused technical interview practice for students preparing for banking recruiting. No promises about offers: the work is understanding the material well enough to explain it.

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