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- Assessing the bankability of projects if availability payments, capacity payments and termination clauses/guarantees are removed? What further enhancements are needed?
- How are structural and behavioural changes triggered by the pandemic changing the way financiers and sponsors model project finance transactions?
- What lessons can be taken from 4G projects to attract investment?
- What level of activity is expected in the secondary market? To what extent are project sponsors exiting this space?
- Utilising guarantees and wraps to mitigate construction risk, mobilise liquidity and mature the capital markets
Moderator

Astra Castillo

Senior Director, Infrastructure & Project Finance at Fitch Ratings
Astra Castillo is a Senior Director at Fitch Ratings. She is part of the Latin American Infrastructure and Project Finance group and is responsible for the team that brings analytical coverage to a number of countries in the region, including Mexico, Colombia and Chile. Prior to joining Fitch Ratings in 2007, she worked as a corporate credit analyst at Mexico’s Banco Nacional de Comercio Exterior. Astra holds a BS in Financial Administration from Tecnologico de Monterrey and a Master Degree in Finance from Universidad de Monterrey.
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Speakers

Estefania Leon

Investment Director at John Laing
Estefania Leon joined the Bogotá team of John Laing in 2020 as Investment Director. Previously she was Head of Infrastructure and Energy Co-Lead at leading Colombian investment bank Inverlink. Ms Leon has focused her career in public and private sector expertise and has worked on a wide range of 4G PPP projects, private initiatives and core plus infrastructure projects.
John Laing

Victor Vazquez Villalpando

Deputy General Manager Financing & Investment Divison at METRO LINEA 1
METRO LINEA 1

Jenifer Bustamante Moreno
Deputy Director, Public Private Partnerships
Ministry of Finance & Public Credit, Colombia
Jenifer Bustamante Moreno
