Project Finance

The Project Finance Practice Area provides advice on all matters related to project finance, offering multidisciplinary and integrated assistance throughout the entire lifecycle of infrastructure projects – both private and public – including the development and execution phases of investments, their financing and refinancing, also through project bonds, and secondary market operations.

 

The Firm supports its clients in defining complex financial structures that combine bank financing with public guarantees and forms of intervention by national promotional institutions, multilateral development banks, infrastructure funds (including debt funds), and export credit agencies.

 

Chiomenti stands out for its strong roots in the country's institutional, economic, and financial community, with long and consolidated experience in assisting financial institutions, central and local administrations, companies, and concessionary companies.

 

The team's approach to the profession is characterized by the ability to combine the highest rigor in handling legal issues with full awareness and understanding of the competitive, temporal, and commercial pressures in which the clients operate. The deep knowledge of economic fundamentals and the peculiarities of individual industrial sectors facilitate dialogue and collaboration in building solutions aimed at reconciling the objectives of the various stakeholders involved and creating added value for the client.

 

In a complex and highly regulated context, characterized by constantly and rapidly evolving dynamics, the Practice Area's professionals have developed specific expertise in the sectors of renewable energy and energy efficiency, infrastructure (including social infrastructure), transport, healthcare, logistics, circular economy, digital transition, storage systems, data centers, and sports-related assets, and regularly support the main Italian and international players in developing pioneering and innovative operations.

 

The team is able to understand and meet the needs of a wide range of clients in complex operations (including public-private partnerships - PPP). The range of services also extends to financial rebalance procedures, the definition of benefit-sharing mechanisms, the correct framing of risk apportionment, and the related statistical treatment for EUROSTAT purposes of the operations.

 

The practice area and individual professionals are referenced by the main international directories. The excellence of their work is evidenced by the numerous awards given by the main international magazines.