Over the last decade Mr. Yiorgos Andrianopoulos has been structuring Project Finance instruments aiming at attracting investor capital in Ship, Maritime and Infrastructure assets across the EU/MENA/GCC regions. As a Business Partner with the boutique ICONIC Project Finance Advisory (UK/CH) and as the CFO for the Project Finance | Maritime | Corporate Units, he involved in the development of finance instruments with a combined value of USD 70bn. His specialism covers all asset categories in conjunction with their related instruments (bonds, loans, hybrid, listed/unlisted) and the respected market vehicles. Together with the risk sharing mechanisms and control arrangements, he thrives in coupling investment banking requirements with project sponsors expectations, long-term profitability and spreadsheet modeling under a common commercial and legal/contractual hood. Mr. Andrianopoulos has origins from a naval family that led him on receiving grammar education from Ionidios Model School of Piraeus. He is a Chartered European Engineer (EUR-ING) and holds a MSc. degree in Engineering Economic Systems from the NTUA.

Title: Rising Investing Perspective against Shrinking Banking World

Project Finance as a valid instrument and a powerful incentive for ship, transport and infrastructure financing. The presentation maps out the investment options available to private investors, and which instruments and incentives are available to attract private sector investment under across the EU. Equally, the governing taxonomy of instruments is included, spanning all forms of debt and equity and risk mitigation tools deployed by governments and agents. While the taxonomy is meant to capture all forms of private infrastructure finance techniques, a focus of this presentation is to identify new and innovative financing instruments and risk mitigation techniques used to finance ship, transport and infrastructure assets. It is provided the foundation for the identification of effective financing approaches, instruments, and vehicles that could broaden the financing options available and increase as well as diversify the investor base, potentially lowering the cost of funding and increasing the availability of financing regions where investment gaps might exist.