Financing support for large-scale infrastructure projects

Features of PwC

1. Support focused on structuring in the pre-deal phase

The success or failure of a large-scale project heavily depends on the structuring of the project at the pre-deal stage. Recent large-scale projects are often required to build complex structures that fulfil multiple requirements.

PwC has abundant knowledge and experience in establishing business/finance structures that meet the following requirements:

• Clients’ business requests
• Stakeholders’ requests
• Legal and institutional restrictions
• Accounting standards and taxation restrictions

PwC has many professionals with extensive experience in providing support at the execution stage, from structuring to the realisation of the structure, utilising their individual specialities in the best way possible.

2. A wide range of knowledge to avoid overlooking items for the business

In a large-scale project, the project manager must supervise numerous professionals. Each expert typically only considers limited areas of their expertise that have been agreed upon in advance. Hence, many projects are carried out in a way that is not flexible enough to respond to changes in the project situation. As a result, the contents that need to be considered are not covered, often leading to omissions of necessary items for consideration.

PwC’s extensive knowledge of a wide range of fields, backed by our collective experience and network, enables us to provide project managers with the right support to ensure that no omissions occur during large project considerations.

3. Support in building a cash flow model, and developing and scrutinising business plans including revenue and expenditure

The purpose of a business plan is to:

• evaluate investment profitability and investment decision-making
• assess loan repayment capability and finance decision-making

To achieve the above objectives, it is necessary to make a business plan that considers the following points, supported by accurate calculations.

• Selecting appropriate financing methods and accounting and tax treatment methods based on the impact on each investor’s financial statements and key KPIs.
• To facilitate negotiations with each party, we set the necessary preconditions, limiting the essential information to be listed, and incorporate the necessary calculation functions.
• Factoring in a risk buffer for unforeseen events during the business planning phase and after the start of operations.

PwC supports the development of a comprehensive business plan by leveraging our extensive experience in providing support for the execution of the project.