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Packed with advice on getting YOUR project financed, and backed with the author's two decades experience as a project finance intermediary and direct financier. This book is now the Official Project Finance Exchange (PFX) User GuideMost importantly it describes in detail how the Project Plan (PP) should be assembled and structured, and linked to its associated files in the project’s Dropbox folders. It presents how long-established, but time-consuming and expensive traditional finance raising tasks have been fully integrated into PFX and how the primary task of connecting finance raisers with financiers is now a streamlined, structured and pain-free process through PFX.Ch1: History and IntroductionThe essential backgrounder. Starting with the Eurodollar bond market in the 1960’s through the ascendance of investment banks, private equity, hedge and alternative investment funds to the present day dominated by private capital channelled through all those above plus asset managers, wealth managers, mandated lenders, corporate investors and family offices; Defining institutional and private capital; How research, data and comment from Wealth-X, McKinsey, Campden Wealth, Cap-Gemini (World Wealth Report), The Economist and others provide the basis for a global project finance capital market valuation of a minimum $2 trillion.Ch2: Welcome to the MazeThe dreaded ‘broker chain’; Scams and frauds; How to spot ‘joker brokers’; Why it is best to avoid people you already know to assist in your finance raising.Ch3: What is ‘Shovel Ready’?How to make any financier roll their eyes, tell them your project is ‘shovel ready’; Definition of ‘project finance’; Detailed presentation of what makes a project genuinely ‘shovel ready’.Ch4: The Project Plan (PP)How to assemble and present this critical document; Organising your Dropbox folders; Supporting documentation (contracts, permits etc)Ch5: The Executive Summary (ES)Just as vital as the PP; How the ES is part auto-filled for you by PFX; Keeping it short; Condensing information from the PP; PFX financiers request your ES direct from your elevator pitch.Ch6: The SubmissionHow the previously frustrating and time-consuming task, finding a financier, is now streamlined and pain-free; How PFX and its Associates start preparing your full submission from your initial Intake Form, through to providing your KYC (Know Your Client) details and full PP to the Financier with you have agreed to engage in readiness for your first conference call.Ch7: Financing StructuresHow there are probably as many financing structures as there are financiers; Conditions precedent; Tranches; Security; Default events and other fundamentals of what to expect in your Terms Sheet.Ch8: Financier Types and How to Find ThemDefining asset managers; Alternative investment funds; Corporate investors; Hedge funds; Mandated lenders; Multi-/single-family offices; Private banks; Private equity and debt funds; Wealth managers, etc.; All are registered PFX Financiers.Ch9: Fifteen Ways to Lose Your FinancierFifteen errors made by project sponsors that have brought discussions and negotiations to a premature end.Ch10: Engagement and ProtocolsFinal terms sheet; The close; Post-close reporting.Ch11: The Project Finance Exchange(PFX)Introduction; Raising project finance; Financiers; Intermediaries. How PFX is introducing structure and standards into the global project finance market.