Guidance

*<1 > Preferred Bidder Debt Funding Competitions,
HM Treasury (Aug. 2006).

Draft outline guidance.
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/ppp pbdfcguide100806.pdf

<2> The financial crisis and the PPP market. Potential Remedial Actions
European PPP Expertise Centre - EPEC (Abridged version, August, 2009).

Abridged version of a study providing a framework for analysing some potential
responses to the financial crisis, as it affects the Public Private Partnerships (PPP
) market across the EU, and identifying a list of issues and considerations for the
attention of public sector.
http://www.eib.org/epec/infocentre/index.htm

<3) E. R. Yescombe, Public-Private Partnerships: Principles of Policy and Finance,
Elsevier (2007), ISBN: 978-0-7506-8054-7.

Chapter 8 provides a good summary of what project finance is and why it is often
used for PPPs.

*<4> Graham Vinter, Project Finance: A Legal Guide,
Sweet and Maxwell Ltd. Third Edition (2006), ISBN: 0421-909501.

Chapter 7 includes how to negotiate a credit loan agreement, and chapter 8
discusses credit security and related issues.