Infrastructure Investor: New York - PEI Media

Day One – Tuesday, September 29
8:30 – 8:45 PEI Media welcome & Chairman’s introduction
8:45 – 9:45 Opening Keynote Panel
Leading deal makers will participate in a candid discussion on the current investment
environment and what is needed to succeed in this asset class:
• Has the infrastructure asset class lived up to its promise in the last 12 months?
• The last 12 months has seen a number of all equity transactions. In retrospect,
was this a smart move?
• What will the deals of the next 1 to 3 years look like?
• Expectations for yields and distributions
9:45 – 10:45 Panel: Going forward, will equity be scarcer than debt?
• Fundraising in the current market environment: issues, considerations, keys to success?
• Where will long term debt come from? (Build America Bonds, TIFIA, tax-exempt
bonds) What does the lack of available debt mean for the billions of equity raised
over 2007 and 2008?
• Creative financing approaches
11:15 – 11:45 Keynote Speaker
11:45 – 12:30 Panel: The Future of PPPs in the US
• What’s next for US PPP: lessons learned from the collapse of PA
Turnpike, Midway, Miami Tunnel and Alligator Alley
• What needs to be done to make PPPs work?
12:30 – 1:15 Panel: Greenfield vs Brownfield
• How and who will fund Greenfield assets?
• What areas are going to be the most interesting for new build?
• What will unlock the Greenfield market in the US?
• Balancing risks through mixed asset portfolios
2:30 – 3:15 Panel: Lessons Learned from the First 8 Months of
The Obama Administration
• Has it been a game changer?
• Navigating the Stimulus Package: connecting the dots to funding
• Keys to overcoming political and institutional challenges
• How the bid and legislative process can be improved in the US
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