Abstract Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) are legal instruments, widely employed in
infrastructure megaprojects. SPVs support specific transactions, including public-private …

Megaprojects involve organizations called “Special Purpose Entities”(SPEs) also known as
“special purpose vehicles.” Despite their relevance, particularly for governance, SPEs are …

Project finance is the process of financing a specific economic unit that the sponsors create,
in which creditors share much of the venture's business risk and funding is obtained strictly …

This paper provides a comparative analysis of project finance (PF) and traditional corporate
finance (CF) bond spreads and pricing. Using a cross-section of 47,196 bonds issued …

This paper examines the pricing of structured finance (SF)–asset-backed securities (ABS),
mortgage-backed securities (MBS), and collateralized debt obligations (CDO)–and straight …

We examine the factors that influence nonfinancial firms' choice of issuing standard
corporate bonds vis-à-vis contracting structured finance, in the form of project finance or …

This study empirically examines the effects of a regulation change on the structure and
governance of leveraged buyouts (LBOs) within the Italian private equity market, whose …

Für den Erfolg oder Misserfolg einer Akquisition kommt dem richtigen Grundverständnis der
Transaktionen eine überaus hohe praktische Bedeutung zu. Dieses Buch vermittelt dem …

Mining capital is capital required to develop mines from exploration, feasibility studies, mine
design, construction, and commissioning to operation; capital to refinance and modernize …

This paper examines which factors determine the pricing of loans for LBOs, using a
worldwide sample of 11,111 loans closed in the 2000–2016 period. Our findings are …