http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/RSS.aspx?FeedID=1236©2013 Project Finance Magazine60Deals of the YearAPLNG is the first limited-recourse financing to close for a coal-seam-to-LNG projecthttp://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3174352/Asia-Pacic-Oil-and-Gas-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-Australia-Pacic-LNG.htmlFri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTPosco, founded in 1968 as a joint venture between the South Korean government and tools manufacturer TaeguTec, is now the world’s fourth largest steelmaker and South Korea’s third largest private company http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3174355/Asia-Pacic-Sponsor-of-the-Year-2012-POSCO.htmlFri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTThe A$1.8 billion ($1.84 billion) Sunshine Coast University hospital deal is the first major hospital PPP in the state of Queensland. http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3174320/Asia-Pacific-Healthcare-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-SCUH.htmlFri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTThe consortium building the Wampu hydroelectric power plant in North Sumatra, Indonesia, pulled off a significant coup with its $130 million financing.http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3174339/Asia-Pacific-Hydro-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-Wampu-Electric-Power.htmlFri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTMGM Grand Paradise closed in October 2012 on $2 billion in debt that refinances existing facilities, helps to build a new resort on Macau’s Cotai Strip and allows it to start making robust distributions http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3174302/Asia-Pacific-Leisure-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-MGM-Grand-Paradise.htmlFri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTA joint venture between state-run Indonesian metals company Krakatau Steel and South Korean developer POSCO closed a $1.729 billion steel mill financing in February 2012.http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3174272/Asia-Pacific-Mining-and-Metals-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-POSCO-Krakatau.htmlFri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTThe sponsors of the $34 billion Ichthys LNG project closed its $20 billion debt financing without any post-completion support http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3174354/Asia-Pacific-Multisourced-and-Global-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-Ichthys-LNG.htmlFri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTThe Malaysian power market has offered limited opportunities for outsiders, whether debt or equity providers. The R6.7 billion ($2.16 billion) financing for the Tanjung Bin coal-fired plant offers a glimmer – and only a glimmer – of hope http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3174348/Asia-Pacific-Power-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-Tanjung-Bin.htmlFri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTDomestic debt markets in the Philippines today are vastly more liquid than they were six years ago. http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3174324/Asia-Pacific-Refinancing-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-TeaM-Energy.htmlFri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTThe $122 million Salkhit wind farm is the first independent power project of any kind in Mongolia http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3174341/Asia-Pacific-Renewables-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-Salkhit.htmlFri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTReliance Power closed the $308 million financing for the Rajasthan Sun project in India last year using a mixture of local bank, development finance institution and export credit debt. http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3174346/Asia-Pacific-Solar-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-Rajasthan-Sun.htmlFri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTThis year’s Telecoms Deal of the Year winner is for the largest acquisition financing in the ASEAN region in telecoms, and involves Tower Bersama’s acquisition of 2,500 towers from Indonesian mobile operator Indosat.http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3174296/Asia-Pacific-Telecoms-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-Tower-Bersama.htmlFri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTThe financing for Singapore Power’s S$2 billion cross-island tunnels project is the largest ever greenfield infrastructure financing in Singapore. http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3174331/Asia-Pacific-Transmission-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-SP-Tunnels.htmlFri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTOn 19 November 2012, Margabumi Adhikaraya closed a roughly Rp1.202 billion ($124 million) project financing to support the construction of a new toll road http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3174313/Asia-Pacific-Transport-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-Gempol-Pandaan.htmlFri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTThe A$2.3 billion ($2.35 billion) refinancing of the Sydney desalination plant is first of several privatisations in New South Wales and the largest one that it has completed to date. http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3174311/Asia-Pacific-Water-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-Sydney-Desalination.htmlFri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTThe financing for the 549km Chihuahua pipeline features a financial equity provider, and suggests that with careful structuring such sponsors can compete with deep-pocketed strategic sponsors even on greenfield assets http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3162612/Latin-American-Midstream-Oil-and-Gas-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-Tarahumara-Pipeline.htmlFri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTJunior explorer Largo Resources closed a R311 million ($156 million) debt financing with four Brazilian lenders for its majority-owned Maracas vanadium projecthttp://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3162581/Latin-American-Mining-and-Metals-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-Maracas-vanadium.htmlFri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTWith its 527MW Cerro del Águila run-of-river hydro project, IC Power and Quimpac provided a template for amassing more than $500 million in debt http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3162629/Latin-American-Power-Deal-of-the-Year-2012Cerro-del-guila.htmlFri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTInvepar’s $983 million Via Parque Rimac toll road project in Lima is not the first PPP in Peru to make use of the country’s liquid capital markets. But it is the largest project bond in the country’s history. http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3162609/Latin-American-PPP-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-Via-Parque-Rimac.htmlFri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTAcciona initially financed its Oaxaca II, III and IV wind projects with a $200 million bridge loan that eventually grew to $350 million. http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3162620/Latin-American-Project-Bond-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-Oaxaca-II-and-IV.htmlFri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTMexico’s states have taken the lead in developing new PPP structures for social infrastructure assets. http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3162587/Latin-American-Social-Infrastructure-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-CEVASEP-I-and-II.htmlFri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTDuring 2012, developer OAS eased the pressure on the Brazilian government by advancing the construction of several significant stadiums in the country http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3162630/Latin-American-Sponsor-of-the-Year-2012OAS.htmlFri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTSociedad Concesionaria Operadora Aeroportuaria Internacional (Opain) began construction on its El Dorado International Airport concession in Bogota in early 2007 http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3162582/Latin-American-Transport-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-El-Dorado.htmlFri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTThe financing for SBM’s Cidade de Anchieta was the first time that bond investors had been asked to finance a floating production storage and offloading vessel. http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3162614/Latin-American-Upstream-Oil-and-Gas-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-SBM-Baleia-Azul.htmlFri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTThe Ps8.9 billion ($684 million) debt financing for 396MW Mareña Renovables wind project was one of the year’s largest power financings in Mexico. http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3162616/Latin-American-Wind-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-Marea.htmlFri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTThe twin financings for the Sherman and Temple merchant power projects mark a return to market for the former management of Panda Energy http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3162939/North-American-Merchant-Power-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-Sherman-and-Temple.htmlFri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTCheniere Energy Partners wanted to close the largest project financing in the US in several years despite a rating four notches from investment grade http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3162637/North-American-Oil-and-Gas-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-Sabine-Pass.htmlFri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTECP’s EquiPower Resources refinancing and subsequent repricing capitalised on a shift in power and fuel market fundamentals in the two markets where EquiPower operateshttp://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3162850/North-American-Portfolio-Power-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-EquiPower-Resources.htmlFri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTThe $363 million financing for the second phase of the Presidio Parkway in San Francisco is the first transport project in California to be procured on an availability basis.http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3162638/North-American-PPP-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-Presidio-Parkway.htmlFri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTThe renamed FPL, NextEra Energy Resources, has closed the first rated bond financing for a Canadian solar project. http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3162635/North-American-Project-Bond-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-NextEra-St-Clair.htmlFri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT