Program Overview

Taught by instructors with decades of experience on Wall Street, this Professional Certificate program develops the skills you need to handle the transactions, financing and policy of public-private partnerships (PPPs). Through case studies you will understand the balance between private investors’ need for profit and governments’ need for transparency in gaining new private funding for key public projects.

This knowledge is essential for investors, commercial and investment bankers, lawyers, accountants, and regulators.

You will learn about the accounting and economic drivers that motivate the use of Project Finance and understand key participants at critical points in a project timeline. We will explore management of risks including construction, supplier, market demand, market price, credit and political/country. You’ll also examine greenfield, privatization, and Public Private Partnership projects in the power generation, natural resource, extraction, and public infrastructure sectors.

This program will also look at several term sheets for actual projects that detail the use of different ownership and debt structures and also examples of the documentation that is required to secure project financing. In the final course of this program we will consider the case of an actual Emerging Market Greenfield project that our instructor – Jeff Hooke – participated in during his investment-banking career.

NOTE: Completing all 6 courses and then taking the Professional Certificate Examination is MANDATORY to achieve both the NYIF Certificate of Mastery and the edX Professional Certificate in Project Finance and Public Private Partnerships. A verified learner must pass all courses in the program with a minimum grade of 70% to earn a Professional Certificate for Project Finance and the Public Private Partnership.

What you will learn

  • Understand project finance and the public-private partnerships (PPPs) that are closely allied to project finance
  • Recognize different ways to classify projects by deal structure and customer type and review various examples of deals
  • Understand the project finance process and how to select the best deals for investment
  • Recognize the additional contracts and documents that need to be created for a project; and learn about Rating Agencies and the Loan Syndication Process
  • Recognize the key political and currency risks in project financehttps://youtu.be/j1o4lKhg8Ao

Program Course List

1
Project Finance and Public Private Partnerships Fundamentals

Course Details
An overview of project finance and public-private partnerships (PPPs) with a focus on financing and accounting.

2
Deal Structures in Project Finance

Course Details
Learn how to classify projects by deal structure and customer type by examining global PPP mega-deals.

3
The Project Finance Process

Course Details
Learn about the various stages and participants in the project finance process, including the important role lenders play.

4
Deals in Project Finance: Case Studies and Analysis

Course Details
Review multiple case studies and transactions to recognize how to select the best deals for investment.

5
Documentation in Project Finance

Course Details
Learn about the contracts and documents needed for a project, rating agencies, and the loan syndication process.

6
Risks in Project Finance: Case Studies and Analysis

Course Details
Review case studies and transactions to recognize the key political and currency risks in project finance.

7
Project Finance and the Public Private Partnership Examination

Course Details
Complete the required exam to earn your professional certificate in Project Finance and the Public Private Partnership from the New York Institute of Finance.

Meet Your Instructors

Jeff Hooke - Pearson Advance

Jeff Hooke

Jeff is a New York Institute of Finance faculty member with over 30 years of corporate valuation, investment banking and private equity experience. He has been an instructor at the New York Institute of Finance since 2005 where he has designed and delivered courses in M&A and related finance topics. Jeff holds a MBA from Wharton School and a B.S. from University of Science. He was a former private investment executive at Emerging Markets Partnership and a former investment banker at two major Wall Street firms, Lehman Brothers and Schroder Wertheim. Presently, Jeff is the managing director at FOCUS and the author of four books on valuation, investment and finance.
 

Program endorsements

NYIF was an excellent chance not only to obtain the tools I needed to improve my Skills in Public Private Partnership Project Finance, but also to expand my business network. Having the opportunity to interact with professionals with similar interests made the training richer.

Andres Farias von Riehm , Head of Corporate Treasury, Transelec

NYIF was an excellent chance not only to obtain the tools I needed to improve my Skills in Public Private Partnership Project Finance, but also to expand my business network. Having the opportunity to interact with professionals with similar interests made the training richer.

Andres Farias von Riehm , Head of Corporate Treasury, Transelec