Project finance facility provisions: overview of post-LIBOR interest rate clauses | Practical Law

Project finance facility provisions: overview of post-LIBOR interest rate clauses | Practical Law

This practice note looks at drafting interest rate provisions in a post-LIBOR world for project finance facilities for projects located in developing markets. It focuses specifically on the complexities of using either a backwards-looking SOFR rate compounded in arrears or a forward-looking term SOFR rate and the impact of using SOFR (backwards or forward looking) may have on other provisions of a facility agreement. This note also looks at the impact using SOFR has on transactions involving an Islamic financing tranche.

Project finance facility provisions: overview of post-LIBOR interest rate clauses

Practical Law UK Practice Note Overview w-034-4802 (Approx. 22 pages)

Project finance facility provisions: overview of post-LIBOR interest rate clauses

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This practice note looks at drafting interest rate provisions in a post-LIBOR world for project finance facilities for projects located in developing markets. It focuses specifically on the complexities of using either a backwards-looking SOFR rate compounded in arrears or a forward-looking term SOFR rate and the impact of using SOFR (backwards or forward looking) may have on other provisions of a facility agreement. This note also looks at the impact using SOFR has on transactions involving an Islamic financing tranche.