This session focused on the application of the third-party debt test. The session touched on commonly used financing structures in infrastructure and real estate industries and how existing market practice of financiers could impact the treatment of debt as ‘third party’ debt for the purposes of the test.
The session covered the following key aspects of the third-party debt test:
- Obligor groups
- Security arrangements and provision of security by parent entities and by groups with significant foreign assets
- Conduit rules and use of group financiers; and
- Greenfield developments and permitted credit support.