Management Consulting

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“Whether you’re a project or technology developer, a utility company, a financial institution, or a governmental agency, you can rely on our team of seasoned professionals. Our team has extensive industry experience across a wide range of sectors and we are ready to serve your needs.”

Gianmaria La Porta
Head of Management Consulting
mcu@ilf.com

Our Achievements:

• Advised on 100+ PPP projects
• 30+ Billions USD of financial deals closed
• Our Recent 100+ PMC mega & giga projects deliver big data for your future smart city

ILF is ranked 5th among the Top 10 Technical Transaction Advisors in the Energy, Environment, Power, and Transport sectors*

*Source: inframationnews.com (2023)

Optimizing Productivity – Increasing Value of your Assets
There is permanent pressure to be more efficient and more effective in managing assets. This is mainly due to changes in market environments, regulatory requirements, policies, disrupting technologies and aging infrastructure, as well as risks and opportunities during asset procurement, operation and investment planning.
This calls for a regular and systematic review and alignment applying global best-practices.

A project is only feasible and sustainable in the long term if the technical, economic, environmental, social and operational feasibility can be proven by suitable investigations. Financial institutions, sponsors and investors will only invest in projects if appropriate solutions can be found which cover all these aspects.

A bankable feasibility study meets all these requirements, identifies different ways to finance a project, and defines necessary prerequisites and conditions. It looks at the financial sustainability of the envisaged project for banks and other potential investors.

Liability claims and other claims in the construction industry are often the result of inadequate preparation. They often arise from vague contractual terms or unclear scopes of work. The latter issue is usually solved by a step-by-step, detailed definition of the scope of work. However, a detailed discussion of the key construction contracts does often not begin before the tendering procedure.
Nevertheless, measures to avoid liability claims and other claims must already be taken when preparing the tender documents.

The global effort to achieve higher standards of living necessitates continuous improvement and expansion of infrastructures and industries. Meeting this challenge requires enormous investment. The process of screening and selecting suitable financing opportunities for these projects is a major issue worldwide and requires a multidisciplinary understanding of the respective framework conditions.

Organizational weaknesses are bottlenecks in achieving goals. Institutional strengthening addresses the internal relations and the institutional framework of an organization. Following a thorough analysis of the status quo, core functions are optimized.
Institutional strengthening is a dynamic process where flexibility, learning and adjusting to changing circumstances are necessary. This implies a continuous iterative development process.

Project financing is a key element of investments in the industry and infrastructure sector. In general, a project developer seeks to finance a significant part of the construction costs by borrowing through a special purpose vehicle, which tends to take the legal form of a limited liability company.
For this reason, financiers need a comprehensive risk assessment and a well-documented project basis before making any financing decision, and a suitable process to monitor the progress and quality of the project during implementation.

Growth strategies are based on increasing competitiveness in a comprehensive market environment. Frequent growth is also the result of the reaction to trends in specific sectors. A market study makes it possible to evaluate markets, competitors, trends, success factors, opportunities and risks in the target market. These findings are essential for strategic business decisions, they show companies how to best use their growth potential and help with the budgeting process for planned projects.

Master plans point the way and provide guidance. Their development requires the integration of complex strategic, economic, regulatory, technical, social and environmental aspects. Their aim is to develop a strategic approach towards defined objectives, taking into account short-, mid-, and long-term implementation stages.

Optimized plant operation and proactive maintenance and excellent design and project implementation are preconditions for the long-term success of industrial and infrastructure projects. Aging plant infrastructure and changing demands and targets of plant operation pose a constant challenge that requires flexible and professional teams, processes and programs.

In times of tighter public budgets, alternative models for project procurement and delivery gain wider acceptance. In order to meet the present-day challenges posed by complex infrastructure projects, more and more public institutions cooperate with private businesses in Public–Private Partnerships (PPPs).
In addition to providing access to private capital, PPPs permit the strengths and capacities of the respective partners to be used in an optimized way, achieving best risk-sharing. These models require a careful structuring of the respective responsibilities and contractual obligations as well as a careful and sensible allocation of tasks and risks in every part of the entire project lifecycle.

Pre-feasibility studies investigate whether a concept satisfies the client’s objectives and the technical, economic, social and environmental constraints for a particular project. The studies also provide first assessments of conditions and assumptions under which a set of solutions is feasible and define the order of magnitude of the costs involved.

Even the best planning and implementation of a project cannot rectify the mistakes made in the preceding screening process. Selecting projects carefully and diligently according to clearly defined goals holds the greatest optimization potential when creating new infrastructure. In order to be able to select the most suitable projects from planned undertakings, goal-oriented criteria have to be defined beforehand. They reflect the different requirements from the different infrastructure areas and the specific challenges.

Any major investment decision on either a greenfield or brownfield site requires a thorough analysis of complex issues, such as capital investment, operational expenditure, commercial, contractual and regulatory aspects. Furthermore, environmental performance as well as efficiency and dependability of related supply chains are important criteria for investment decisions.

Clients interested in transactions will require proper analyses of these issues to safeguard the continuity and sustainability of their potential investments.

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