We provide a “one stop shop” financial advisory and debt structuring service to our clients. Having a multidisciplinary and experienced financial advisory team comprised of members with experience from both industry and banks we add differential value to our clients by providing them with a standalone financial advisory that covers all applicable requirements throughout the different stages of project development.
We have a personalized approach to providing our service whereas we interact at all times with clients so that they participate throughout the process and consider VGS as a true extension of their financial team. This philosophy allows us to guarantee a 360º financial advisory entering at early stages of projects to design the required scope of advisory services to execute an efficient and valuable debt financial structuring strategy.
Our services contemplate to main angles that run in parallel throughout the stages of projects.
Project development
- Asset valuations
- Debt sizing analysis
- Advise the client on potential sources of financing to design and recommend a solid strategy, be it in the form of syndicated bank deals, capital markets solutions, or institutional agency/ECA-backed-financings
Financial Structuring
- Financial Modeling; running sensitivity and scenario analysis
Our analysts have extensive experience modeling renewables projects business cases and produce complex financial models including base and alternative cases as well as sensitivities.
Our comprehensive team that includes not only analyst but also project managers, engineers and supply chain experts will also propose optimization using the inputs provided by our clients in order to have the best outcomes for: the debt service coverage ratio (DSCR), the Internal Rate of Return (IRR) and Net Present Value (NPV)
- Design the definitive debt structuring strategy; non-recourse PF, limited recourse financing/bridge financing
- Prepare the necessary project teasers or infomemos to present the project to the markets
After we are mandated by our client we contact all suitable lenders and export credit agencies in order to determine the best mix of debt and the best lender’s syndicate choice, including equity bridge loan (EBL), mezzanine and senior debt.
- Market roadshow to present project and obtain offers
- Initiate, coordinate and complete due diligence procedures
Implementation
Financial close occurs when all the project and financing agreements have been signed, all conditions on those agreements have been met, and the private party to the PPP can start drawing down the financing to start work on the project.
Our services include:
- Assist the client in complying with all conditions precedent required for financial close and disbursement of facilities
- Assisting client with facility obligations monitoring
- Analysis of derivative solutions and applications if required