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Monday, August 21, 2006

Ethanol & Biodiesel Project Finance: The Tutorial
November 1-3, 2006 * Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza * Chicago, IL

Don’t miss the best available introduction on how to ensure that your biofuel project will successfully source both equity and debt financing in today’s market!

Participating
Companies:

Ag Country Farm Credit Services
Baker Mckenzie, LLP
Besecker & Associates
Chadbourne & Parke LLP
Christianson & Associates, PLLP
CIT Energy
eBio Holdings L.P.
First Capitol Risk Management
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP
Luminate, LLC
Marathon Capital LLC
Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc.
Morrison & Kibbey, Ltd.
Winston & Strawn, LLP

Biofuels are red-hot, and getting hotter by the day! But developers and financiers must understand how to best take advantage of the national Renewable Fuels Standard and other incentives, as well as how to mitigate feedstock and technical risks, in order to structure projects to optimize revenue streams while minimizing risk exposure.

Infocast’s Ethanol & Biodiesel Project Finance: The Tutorial has one simple goal: to provide the most comprehensive training on how to finance biofuels projects.

You will :

Learn how equity investors and lenders evaluate this siting, cost and competitive factors of ethanol and biodiesel projects and what metrics your projects must meet in order to obtain financing

Learn what risk factors in ethanol and biodiesel projects will raise “red flags” for equity investors and lenders and how to mitigate such risks via contractual arrangements

Learn where equity and debt can be sourced for ethanol and biodiesel projects and how to minimize the time you spend on the financing process

Anticipate and overcome hurdles in developing ethanol and biodiesel projects – hear lessons learned in real-world plant developments and financings

DON’T MISS THE TUTORIAL’S 2 CAN’T MISS WORKSHOPS!
Workshop #1 Feedstock Risk Management for Biofuels Deals	Workshop #2 Negotiating and Documenting the Key Biofuels Project Agreements

Please click here to download a brochure for this Conference

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