Infrastructure & Project Finance

As the largest independent provider of financial risk and derivatives advisory services, Chatham advises clients across a broad spectrum of industries and sectors. Based in London, our Infrastructure and Project Finance team provides dedicated sector-specific expertise and cross-border reach and coordination, in support of our increasingly globally orientated clients. Coupled to this, we are able to deploy extensive resources to support projects locally and provide specialist input in areas such as Emerging Market risks and hedge accounting.

Chatham does not take market positions, and our advice is independent and unbiased. Our preferred approach is to assist our clients in fostering understanding and lasting relationships with their lenders, hedge counterparties and other stakeholders.

Chatham Financial advises government entities and project sponsors across the full spectrum of infrastructure investment and project finance, including:

• Government infrastructure, PFI, PPP and P3
• Power generation and renewable energy
• Ports, airports and roads
• Regulated utilities
• Oil and gas
• Defence offsets
• Portfolios and funds
• Asset sales

New Projects

Our team assists you by identifying market risks and hedging strategies, optimising your approach to the funding and hedging markets, managing hedging and funder relationships, negotiating and documenting hedging terms, managing the transaction process and all aspects of market execution and post-close trade administration. We aim to work as an integral part of the deal team from the earliest stages of a transaction. Our areas of expertise include:

• Interest Rate Hedging
• Foreign Currency Hedging
• Derivative Accounting Services

Refinancing & Restructuring

The value of unbiased, credible advice is particularly high where legacy hedge positions represent substantial cost or value to the incumbent parties and where objectives, even within the same asset class, may be divergent. Chatham can advise on strategy, negotiate on your behalf or remain “behind the scenes” and assist with other elements of the transaction as with a new project.

Transactions

We are able to act confidentially in support of bidders or vendors on single assets or portfolios. Our loan and derivatives Due Diligence Portal (DDP) enables vendors to organise cashflow, pricing and all documentary information for access by third parties, potentially shortening the due diligence timeframe and reducing bidders’ and their advisors’ costs.

Portfolio Management

Chatham Financial manages trade information for over 1000 clients around the globe. We have substantial expertise in both International Accounting Standards for derivatives and US and other GAAP, and our class-leading combined loan and derivative portfolio management suite enables direct client access to loans and their associated derivative transactions, including accounting valuations and the deposit of all associated documentation:

• Valuations
• Hedge Portfolio Management
• Debt Management

Policy and Strategy

Chatham’s capital markets transaction experience and independence can assist investors and public sector procurement authorities in developing wider policy and strategic approaches to markets exposures, hedging policies and opportunity selection and appraisal. Chatham Financial is acknowledged as a credible, independent voice in the OTC derivatives markets and has testified before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Derivatives End-User Issues. We are equally comfortable in undertaking either confidential or published assignments.

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