Project Finance

Rock Financial Advisory is Project Finance: we are ex- PF Investment Bankers now working on the “other side of the ledger”, for Corporates.  We provide project finance solutions across all Industries.
– Rock Director Jonathan Ballantyne was Head of Project Finance for Westpac, Australia, and thereafter a Director at NAIF.
– Rock Director Emma McPherson, worked in Project Finance at Bank of America and BNP Paribas for > 13 years.  
Thus we’ve been through credit many times and already know the questions that will be asked. If your Adviser has not worked in banking they may not know the typical hurdles, credit questions, the unique/sometimes complex financial modelling requirements, and legal documentation of PF.

All Sectors/All Industries. We have a network of funders with appetite for various risk levels/ stages of life in a project: from early stage/ in construction/ no revenue, to a producing asset. Funders range from non- bank lenders, offtake advance, royalties, asset finance, etc (for early stage) to traditional PF, Acquisition finance, export credit, etc, for established businesses. Since 2016 we have been involved in > AUD$2billion of fund raising.

We can provide introductions to funders, and complete the entire transaction for you-letting you focus on the project/ business i.e. :

• Set up your data room
• Create the financial model, or take your operational model and add typical debt calculations to ascertain debt capacity
• Debt Term Sheet negotiation and Legal documentation negotiation
• Risk Transfer Analysis for PF non-recourse transactions
• Writing all documents required by the Lender
• Organising all DD required (Technical, Legal, Market, Insurance, Risk, Social Governance & Environmental, FX, Hedging, etc)
• Completing all CP’s to financial close

Project Finance – Why choose us?

• Attention : As we are boutique, we accept a smaller amount of mandates, but on every mandate, clients will have the sole attention of a Director of our firm, who will also execute all aspects of the mandate – thus the client (and the funder) only deals with one person.
• Independence:  We have no affiliation to any bank, therefore we will present an unbiased funding solution that suits you – not the lender. Nor are we an accounting firm, thus no conflict from potentially being the accountant for a counterparty.
• Complex Modelling : Project Finance, and moreover, the financial modelling of, can be complex. Therefore don’t leave it up to inexperienced advisers who’ve not worked in Project Finance
• All Industries: We can arrange debt funding across all sectors, and have an expertise in Resources, Energy & Infrastructure sectors. Please visit our page here, to see our experience in this field
  NAIF : Specific to the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (www.NAIF.gov.au) we have worked with clients to access more than AUD$1.2billion of NAIF funding.  Consequently we are very familiar with their project finance process and have executed the whole process with NAIF, on behalf of the client. We did the work – therefore letting the client focus on the wider project.

Call us today to see how we can assist in fund raising and project finance.