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Appraising and diligencing projects and investments
We help clients with…
Appraising and diligencing projects and brownfield investments, using economic and financial models to: forecast benefits, costs and cash flow; determine technical and environmental viability; identify commercial, regulatory and political risk; and recommend strategies to manage risk.
Privatization of the Port of Newcastle, Australia
Castalia helped the Newcastle Port Consortium prepare a growth strategy for the Port of Newcastle. The Government of New South Wales was going to privatize the Port of Newcastle and the Consortium, made up of local business people with commitment to city and the Port, was interested in aligning with a bidder that would seek to implement a growth strategy to ensure the best outcome for the community. Read more
Services
Introducing competition to the provision of public services, by helping governments evaluate the benefits of competition in providing public services ... Read more
Regulatory regimes for access to bottleneck infrastructure, such as ports and airport access rules. We assist regulated service providers and ... Read more
Setting tariffs for transport projects in both transaction and regulatory setting. For expressways and public transportation, we consider willingness to ... Read more
Government monitoring, managing and accounting for fiscal risks arising from PPP in the transport sector, by modeling contingent liabilities arising ... Read more
Identifying projects that could be developed with private finance- both for governments and investors. We also help them calculate how ... Read more
Appraising and diligencing projects and brownfield investments, using economic and financial models to forecast benefits, costs and cash flow; determining ... Read more
Blending private and public finance into viable deal structures. We combine government and multilateral grants, loans and guarantees with commercial ... Read more
Managing transactions, by supporting governments and investors in sales and acquisitions of major port, airport, expressway, and public transit projects ... Read more
Rethinking how they structure transport projects for private investment. We have developed guidance materials for multilateral development banks and governments, ... Read more
