IDCC's international project finance consulting arm (IPFC) is responsible for arranging off-shore technical partnerships/affiliate relationships with local infrastructure development companies. In addition to this function, IPFC sources off-shore financing for major infrastructure projects. IPFC's team is comprised of eminent professionals who possess the expertise knowledge vital and necessary to achieve financial close. IPFC's team takes great pride in engineering meaningful industry relationships and tendering consultative pragmatic advice to local firms undertaking major infrastructural development projects. The IPFC team understands in great depth, the clients' industry environment and peculiar business needs which typically create great value and the products and services that help build great companies and shape their future accordingly.

IDCC assists local,State or national/federal governments seeking to attract large-scale international investment to support their long-term Sustainable Development Strategy, achieve that lofty goal through our various programs which leverage our public and private--sector infrastructure project funding relationships globally. We help varying levels of governments in Africa to create strategies aimed at garnering foreign capital/ off-shore funds, attracting global investors and financing needed for large scale infrastructure improvements which in turn drive vibrant social and economic communities in the respective regions of activity. IDCC considers Public-Private Partnership (PPP) based projects for which Sovereign Government Guarantees, Bank guarantees or Oil Concessions can be offered in return for the Off-Shore Funding required pending the satisfaction of all other requirements for the issuance of such funds.

Generally, IDCC conducts Site Assessment,Feasibility Study, Environmental Impact Analysis, Project Program Management work needed to support the funding process engaged for any particular project.

IDCC facilitates both debt and equity financing for infrastructure projects. The company arranges poject equity and debt financing from third parties and other IDCC affiliate programs.

Potential project sponsors/developers of an infrastructure project may approach IDCC for arranging loan and finance for their projects. All project developers or sponsors are required to authorize IDCC in writing to trigger the process and arrange off-shore financing for them. Thereafter, IDDC undertakes an initial study of the project, determine via critical analysis if there is a significant enough financial need for the project and whether or not the project needs additional equity with that proposed by the sponsors. In order words IDDC determines if the project is bankable. On the basis of this assessment, IDCC will initiate the process for arranging necessary off-shore financing for the pertinent project.

IDCC helps project sponsors and developers to prepare the financial model or base case scenario for the project and the Information Memorandum designated for circulation amongst and consumption by carefully selected prospective financiers. Prior to the engagement of any activities, IDCC enters into confidentiality undertaking with the project developers/sponsors as well as with the participant financiers regarding maintenance of proprietary information of the sponsors and the project company.

Additionally, besides our in-house financial project appraisal, we may provide technical advisory facilities and technical partnering or affiliation companies to work alongside with local project developers or sponsors. Thereafter, the technical partner/affiliate company and a legal counsel may conduct independent due diligence and feasibility studies of the intended project. The scopes of work for the technical Affiliate of partner and appointed counsel need to be approved by IDCC. IDCC per se may or may not participate in the project for which it arranges or facilitates financing. IDCC consultation fees for the entire activity are competitive and mutually negotiable.

1. Assisting project developers in securing off-shore finance.
2. Assisting project developers in securing technical partnering of affiliate off-shore companies.
3. Assisting project developers where necessary, with loan negotiation and documentation.
4. Structuring / designing financial model(s) for project(s).

• Examine due diligence report on various cost items of a pertinent project with particular focus on various engineering and other hard cost items and make recommendations as needed.
• Examine project appraisals; identify areas in the technical and financial portions of such report; recommend and suggest any practical improvement areas.
• Advise on legal documentation necessary to ensure thath project documents are properly structured with equitable risk sharing; and that the financial institutions' interests are secured and adequately protected.

IDCC may periodically offer short term training programs on International Infrastructure project finance and financial modeling through our career training schools or affiliates. We anticipate that such training will help to improve and enrich the knowledge and understanding of young non-bank professionals pertinent to the techniques used in cash flow lending as well as the principles that enable their success. The Training Program is also highly recommended for government officials, infrastructure project developers, manufacturers, construction companies, maritime companies and other industry organizations that may at any time need heavy equipment financing.

International Infrastructure Project finance training programs involve courses with several modules, covering various subjects such as essentials of a project finance transaction, parties involved at various phases of a project, role of investors, characteristics of financing structures in different sectors, the role of due diligence in project finance transactions, legal framework required to achieve financial close, financial modeling of base case and downside scenarios, risk structuring and analysis, structuring of the financial arrangements, what to do when things do not go as planned, ongoing monitoring of live projects, risk management and risk mitigators, current trends and the future of project finance, examination of a few case studies, bankability aspects of project agreements, interest rate swap, issues related to subordinated debt, and design of security package. Financial modeling course will enable the participants to work with financial models as well as construct new ones.