Société Générale wins our award for best project finance house of the year in the face of stiff competition, not least from CSFB, which has continued with much of the work which helped it win the prize last year.
The ability to execute has been crucial over the past 18 months as the number of banks committed to the sector has continued to diminish, and with it the amount of capital readily available. That coincided with a near-credit crunch last year, especially in the US, with calamitous developments stemming from California’s power crisis, and with an increased need for project finance capital from Asia, a region emerging from its own crisis at a time when the big liquidity providers were distracted by problems closer to home.
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