What you’ll learn

  • Overview of Project Finance and Public Private Partnerships
  • History and evolution of Project Finance
  • Basic structures of Project Finance
  • Importance of accounting definitions

Meet your instructor

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.
 

What you’ll learn

Test your knowledge. Gained a clear, comprehensive understanding of Project Finance and the Public Private Partnerships? Next step is to complete the Project Finance and the Public Private Partnerships Professional Certificate Examination from the New York Institute of Finance.

Meet your instructor

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.
 

What you’ll learn

  • Recognize the key political and currency risks in project finance.
  • Identify each step in a hypothetical Greenfield project from conception to financial completion.
  • Recognize the key decision points at each stage in a project timeline.
  • Understand the source and purpose of each item on a lender’s term sheet.
  • Recognize the effect of external market factors on the success of the project financing phase.

Meet your instructor

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.
 

What you’ll learn

  • Recognize the additional contracts and documents that need to be created for a Greenfield project.
  • Identify the key role Ratings Agencies play in evaluating project risks and facilitating lender participation in project finance.
  • Recognize the participants and key success factors at each stage of the loan syndication process.
  • Identify operational and financial problems that can lead to project distress and default.
  • Understand how sponsors and lenders work together to attempt to restore project viability before considering their options in a formal default.

Meet your instructor

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.
 

What you’ll learn

  • Identify the main players in a deal.
  • Recognize the risks involved in various types of deals
  • Understand how to select a deal for investment

Meet your instructor

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.
 

About this course

This economics and finance course is an introductory survey of risk management concepts and techniques. Learners will review the role of risk regulation in financial markets, and learn how to identify and describe the various types of financial risk and their sources.

Upon completion of this course, participants will receive a certificate bearing the New York Institute of Finance (NYIF) name. A NYIF certificate is a valuable addition to your credentials, proving that you have acquired the work-ready skills that employer’s value.

For those who wish to go further, students can enroll in the other four modules to earn the complete Risk Management Professional Certificate, backed by the New York Institute of Finance’s 93-year history. As a final option, students may also opt to sit for the NYIF Certificate of Mastery Exam, resulting in the Risk Management Certificate of Mastery upon successful completion.

What you’ll learn

  • Differentiate between financial risks and business risks.
  • Identify and describe the various types of financial risk and their sources.
  • Identity the real-world violations of the ‘standard model’ assumptions that make risk management value enhancing to the firm.
  • Differentiate between risk measurement and risk management.
  • Describe systemic risk as a negative externality.
  • Describe the US regulatory structure.

 

Prerequisites

  • Basic MS Excel skills
  • Basic probability and statistics

Meet Your Instructors

Anton Theunissen

Anton has twelve years of financial services experience and more than 10 years of academic experience, teaching finance, economics and mathematics to graduate and undergraduate students. His research interests include the effects of securitization and rational default behavior on mortgage credit extension.

About this course

This course begins with an understanding of the various ways a project can originate and then dives deep into the concept of feasibility studies. You’ll review a few financing models and then look at the participants in a project finance deal and understand their motivations.

You’ll learn about lenders, who are one of the most important participants in any deal, and get familiarized with their areas of concerns.

This course is part of the New York Institute of Finance’s popular Project Finance and the Public Private Partnership Professional Certificate program.

What you’ll learn

  • Recognize how certain business needs and objectives can be efficiently satisfied with a particular type of project structure.
  • Identify the role of various project participants in constructing financial models.
  • List key design features and required projections of robust and credible financial models.
  • Recognize the concerns of different types of lenders during each project phase.
  • Identify the different hedging products available for managing common project risks in developed and emerging markets.
  • Lesson 1: The Beginning of Project Finance
  • Lesson 2: Feasibility Study
  • Lesson 3: Financing Models
  • Lesson 4: Participants and Motivations
  • Lesson 5: Lenders
  • Lesson 6: Hedging of Risks

Meet Your Instructor

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.
 

About this course

The Alaska Oil Pipeline is one example of a massive public private partnership. Learn how project finance principles and concepts are used in this deal and others, as well as how the legal and operating environment and customer segments impact these partnerships.

In addition to the Alaska Oil Pipeline, we’ll review other major PPPs including Eurotunnel, San Roque Hydroelectric Dam, Euro Disneyland, Albania Cell Phone, and Emirates Aluminum. You’ll also learn about the lender checklist and go over a case study in the United States before wrapping up this course.

This course is part of the New York Institute of Finance’s popular Project Finance and the Public Private Partnerships Professional Certificate program.

 

What you’ll learn

  • Recognize the different ways to classify projects by deal structure and customer type.
  • Recognize the distinct legal and operating environments that determine project structures in different countries.
  • Identify the key operational and contractual risks that affect a project’s financial feasibility.
  • Recognize the safeguards that go into a Lender’s checklist for the financing of a project.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of corporate finance and basic credit analysis.

 

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 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