Fitch Ratings is a global rating agency dedicated to providing the world’s credit markets with independent and prospective credit opinions, research, and data. With 49 offices worldwide, Fitch Ratings’ global expertise, built on a foundation of local market experience, spans across capital markets in over 150 countries. Fitch Ratings is widely recognized by investors, issuers, and bankers for its credible, transparent, and timely coverage.

Fitch Ratings is headquartered in New York and London, is a part of The Fitch Group, which also includes Derivative Fitch, an independent provider of a suite of ratings and comprehensive services for the credit derivatives market; Algorithmics, the world’s leading provider of enterprise risk management solutions; and Fitch Training, which offers high-quality analytical training for financial professionals.

The Fitch Group is a majority-owned subsidiary of Fimalac, S.A., headquartered in Paris, France. For additional information, please visit www.fitchratings.com; www.derivativefitch.com; www.algorithmics.com; www.fitchtraining.com; and www.fimalac.com.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is a leading international law firm with offices in jurisdictions across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the US.

We are widely recognised as having one of the best energy and major project practices in the world and The Legal 500 consistently ranks us in the first tier for energy, project finance, public international law, international arbitration and environmental law.

Our clients include the key players in the oil and gas and power industries.

We have an excellent record for energy competition and regulatory work, and an antitrust practice that is one of the strongest in Europe.

WestLB – Pioneering New Ways to Finance Power and Renewable Energy

WestLB is a global leader in advising and arranging structured and project finance transactions in the Power and Renewables sector.

Clients receive the expertise and investor access of a bulge bracket investment bank with the personal attention of a boutique firm. WestLB has successfully executed a large number of advisory assignments and capital markets financings in the power and renewables space, aggregating over USD 12 billion in the last five years.

WestLB focuses on structured and project financings, and advisory services including:

• Acquisition financing
• Greenfield project financing
• Mezzanine financing
• Private equity solutions

Our structured finance specialists have expertise in multi-product disciplines including securitization, project finance, risk mitigation, structured trade & commodity finance, and hybrid structures. The Bank’s services include arranging:

• Syndicated bank loans
• B-Loans (1st and 2nd lien)
• Institutional private placements
  • High yield
  • Investment grade
  • Cross border
  • Mezzanine
  • Equity
• Financial advisory (including rating agency advisory)
• Private equity investments
• Tax and accounting driven transactions

Our worldwide locations include offices in New York, Brazil, Düsseldorf, Houston, London, Hong Kong, with branch offices throughout the world including Europe, Asia, South America, the Middle East, Africa and Australia.