What is the difference between Project Finance and Corporate Finance?
In Corporate Finance, also sometimes refered to as balance sheet finance, lending decisions are based on the strength of the corporate balance sheet where cash flow and company assets are relied upon to service the debt facilty. In other words, if you want financing, your books need to be able to support the facility. Not so in Project Finance. In Project Finance the lender places emphasis on the stand-alone project itself. This creates a unique opportunty to project owners seeking to advance their project on the merits of the project itself against the projects sustainable revenues and management of risk that underpin the projects inherent viability.
