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Creating an Efficient Financing Market for Infrastructure: New Structures, New Frameworks and New Investors

13 July 2010

This conference will cover Infrastructure UK's proposed new Green Investment Bank, as well as the emerging plans for new regulatory frameworks to facilitate investment and the drive to bring in new types of long-term investor.

Andrew Rose, Head of the Infrastructure Funding Unit at Infrastructure UK, will give the keynote address.

PROGRAMME

08:20 Coffee and registration

09:00 Chairman's opening remarks

KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS

09:05 Keynote presentation I
Government minister (invited)

09:20 Keynote presentation II
Implications of the new strategy for national infrastructure
Andrew Rose, Head of Infrastructure Finance Unit, Infrastructure UK

PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF THE GREEN INVESTMENT BANK

09:40 Panel discussion on the practical aspects of the Green Investment Bank
James Wardlaw, Co-author of “Delivering a 21st Century Infrastructure for Britain” a report published by the Policy Exchange
Michael Gerrard, Chief Executive, Partnerships UK
Tom Murley, Chairman of the BVCA’s Energy, Environment and Technology Group and Chairman, HgCapital
John Sauven, Executive Director, Greenpeace
Jason Radford, Partner, Ashurst LLP

10:40 Morning coffee

APPLYING THE REGULATED ASSET BASED APPROACH TO MORE SECTORS

11:00 Applying RAB to a broader range of infrastructure
Dr Dieter Helm, Professor of Energy Policy, University of Oxford and Co-author of “Delivering a 21st Century Infrastructure for Britain” a report published by the Policy Exchange

11:20 Case study: OFTOs and the offshore electricity grid for wind energy
Robert Hull, Managing Director, Commercial Services, Ofgem

11:40 Case study: the water industry experience
Regina Finn, Chief Executive, Ofwat

12:00 Panel discussion on the potential of the RAB-based model and other regulatory frameworks to facilitate financing
Dr Dieter Helm, Professor of Energy Policy, University of Oxford and Co-author of “Delivering a 21st Century Infrastructure for Britain” a report published by the Policy Exchange
Regina Finn, Chief Executive, Ofwat
Nick Prior, Partner, Deloitte
Richard Threlfall, UK Head of Infrastructure & Projects, KPMG LLP

12:50 Lunch

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

13:50 What should we do differently? - Key Lessons from the PPP Infrastructure Programme
Michael Gerrard, Chief Executive, Partnerships UK

IMPLICATIONS OF CHANGES TO THE PLANNING PROCESS ON FINANCING

14:20 Implications of changes to the planning process on financing
Robbie Owen, Partner, Bircham Dyson Bell LLP

WHEN WILL THE TRADITIONAL DEBT MARKET RECOVER?

14:40 Overcoming the current constraints on traditional PPP debt financing – when will the market recover?
Iain MacDonald, Head of PFI/PPP Debt Origination Team, Project Finance, Lloyds Banking Group
Jonathan Manley, Head of PPP/PFI Ratings Team, Standard & Poor’s
Kevin Maddick, Head of Infrastructure Finance, Structured Finance CIB, The Royal Bank of Scotland

ATTRACTING INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS BACK INTO THE FINANCING MARKET

15:10 The institutional investor viewpoint
Silja Turville, Head of Project & Infrastructure Finance, M&G Investments

15:30 Update on Hadrian’s Wall Capital
Marc Bajer, Chief Executive, Hadrian’s Wall Capital
Bas P. Snijders, Non-Executive Director, Hadrian’s Wall Capital

15:45 Risk-return performance of infrastructure from an institutional investor perspective
Nadir Maruf, Director, RREEF Infrastructure

16:05 Panel discussion: overcoming the barriers
Previous speakers

16:25 Chairman’s concluding remarks and close of conference followed by afternoon tea