Realizing public-sector building construction and infrastructure projects requires high investment amount but the public authorities are increasingly short of money for such investments. With public-private partnership (PPP) models, urgently required investments can be made nevertheless - with the help of private capital.

The end-to-end solutions by HOCHTIEF PPP Solutions GmbH not only provide practice-oriented concepts, but also concept financing. Experienced teams made up of financial and contract experts create the preconditions on the basis of which a project can be realized. The HOCHTIEF experts analyze and optimize the project structure and develop the optimum financing model, drawing on all conceivable liquidity sources in this process.

HOCHTIEF's world-wide connections to banks, institutions and export credit organizations form the basis for all this. After all, it's not only the conditions that are of major significance - the financiers' soundness, too, is an important factor in the long term. Against this background, HOCHTIEF PPP Solutions can offer its clients made-to-measure, user-oriented project solutions. And innovative financing concepts resulting in calculable win-win situations for all parties involved.

HOCHTIEF is a financially strong partner for successful infrastructure projects. Some examples:

• Athens International Airport, Greece: With a total investment volume of four million euros, the airport is one of the biggest infrastructure projects in Europe. Private capital, European Investment Bank loans, export credits, EU grants and contributions from airport development funds were pooled to finance the project.
• Herrentunnel Lübeck, Germany: The limited-recourse financing for this project was the first cash flow based financing for a traffic infrastructure in project in Germany. Commercial bank loans together with loans from the Reconstruction Loan Corporation (KfW) were used as the most efficient financing source.
• Kingsford Smith Airport Sydney, Australia: The financing structure of the EUR 4 billion total investment is a complex mix of various financing instrument that includes both bank loans, bonds and subordinated loans.
• Vespucio Norte Express, Chile: The bond issue for long-term financing of the toll beltway was placed within just one minute. The AAA-rated bond amounted to the equivalent of EUR 350 million.