Notice. This page is informational and general in nature. Outcomes remain subject to third-party diligence, approvals, definitive documentation, and project-specific constraints.
Project Origination & Development
Origination is not “finding a project.” It is building a bankable file that can survive technical review, legal scrutiny, and investment committee questions.
We support sponsors and corporates from early screening through development readiness, with feasibility, documentation discipline, lender-aligned modelling, and a controlled path to term sheets.
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Project origination and development support is the work that turns a concept into an executable transaction. The focus is practical: prove the revenue logic, validate cost and schedule, map the risk allocation, and package the file so capital providers can make a decision.
Related internal pages: PPP and Project Finance Transaction Advisory , Project Finance Financial Modelling , Project Finance Debt Structuring.
Typical Deliverables
- Decision memo: project summary, revenue logic, use of proceeds, key risks, mitigants, and required milestones.
- Development readiness pack: permits tracker, land and access status, interconnection or access framework where relevant, and critical path schedule.
- Risk allocation map: what sits with the sponsor, the contractor, the offtaker, the public counterparty, and lenders.
- Lender-aligned model: base case and downside cases, DSCR and reserve logic, and sensitivity outputs consistent with contracts.
- Controlled data room: curated documents, naming discipline, and a clear diligence response set.
For construction-heavy mandates, see: Construction Finance Debt Placement. For sustainability-linked funding and reporting discipline, see: Sustainable Finance Structuring and Placement.
Who This Is For
- Sponsors: developers who need a bankable pack and a clear funding pathway before running into the market.
- Corporates: operating companies building asset-backed programs where documentation and governance must match procurement and credit standards.
- Funds and platforms: teams that want repeatable underwriting and a pipeline that produces financeable opportunities.
- PPP consortia: groups that need feasibility and bankability work tied to procurement, not generic pitch material.
If you already have a defined project, you can submit it here: Client Intake.
- Screen: revenue logic, deliverability, permitting reality, and sponsor capacity.
- Bankability design: contract strategy, controls, and the evidence set required for diligence.
- Pack: memo, model outputs, risks and mitigants, and a clean data room.
- Market testing: validate the term sheet range and identify issues early.
- Term sheet process: coordinate a controlled push to executable terms.
- Unclear revenue: no contracted offtake, tariff basis, or enforceable payment logic.
- Soft budgets: CAPEX and OPEX that are not anchored to real procurement and local execution constraints.
- Permitting gaps: critical approvals missing, or timelines that are not consistent with reality.
- Weak governance: unclear ownership, unclear decision rights, and uncontrolled document versions.
- Model mismatch: projections that do not tie to the contract and risk allocation.
- Energy and infrastructure: underwriting tied to PPAs, concessions, availability payments, or regulated tariffs. See Project Finance Debt Structuring.
- Renewables: lender-aligned modelling tied to resource reports, interconnection, and merchant exposure. See Financial Modelling for Renewable Energy Projects and USA Solar Project Finance.
- Carbon-linked projects: feasibility and development readiness aligned to standards and commercialization. See Carbon Project Feasibility Analysis and Carbon Project Development.
- Mining and critical minerals: origination and funding pathway aligned to staged de-risking. See Critical Minerals Finance.
FAQ
Can you originate a project from scratch?
We can support early-stage screening and development planning, but origination still requires a credible sponsor, access to sites or assets, and the ability to execute permitting and contracting milestones.
What is the fastest way to get a clear answer on financeability?
Provide a real budget, a schedule with critical path items, the revenue framework, permits status, and any existing term sheets or lender feedback. If the file is not ready, we will say so early.
Do you guarantee funding or approvals?
No. The role is to produce a decision-grade file and coordinate an execution process that increases closing probability. Final decisions sit with third parties under their own criteria.
What is different about your approach?
The work is built around what decision-makers test: enforceable revenue, deliverable schedule, cost realism, risk allocation, controls, and a model that matches the documents.
How do engagements usually start?
With a defined scope and a staged workplan tied to deliverables: screening, bankability design, packaging, and term sheet coordination.
If you want a project file that can clear committee scrutiny, the priority is not a longer deck. It is disciplined evidence, clean documents, and a funding path that matches the project.
Book a consultation to confirm fit and define the fastest route to a decision-grade pack.
Book A ConsultationDisclosure. This page does not provide legal, tax, accounting, or regulatory advice. Any transaction support is delivered alongside relevant third parties, and outcomes depend on diligence, documentation, and approvals.
