Identifying and managing risks is fundamental to the successful financing and completion of a project. Corporate governance requirements are escalating and lenders are placing increasing emphasis upon risk management when considering providing finance.

Insurance is an important risk management tool, but it only addresses part of the equation. Given the growing complexity of risk management, it is important that you have access to specialists with the knowledge and expertise to aid your understanding of the risk transfer solutions available and who offer independent analysis and advice to help identify and minimise the risk exposures.

Our specialist services

Our consulting services team provides a range of due diligence services to lenders:

• Advising on risk allocation
• Checking contractual interfaces
• Commenting on insurance covenants/lenders' clauses
• Establishing insurance regimes for the duration of a loan
• Monitoring renewals to check compliance
• Reviewing insurance programmes and insurer security
• Advising on potential waivers of covenants

Our clients

We work closely with lenders involved in project finance (including public private partnerships (PPP) or private finance initiative (PFI)), and also act on bond issues as well as mergers & acquisitions.

We focus on energy, power, transport infrastructure, mining, telecommunications and industrial facilities, and have handled many of the largest project financed deals in the world.