October 15 – 16, 2007, Prague – Hotel Corinthia Towers

Central and Eastern Europe continues to be an extremely active market for public private partnership projects. There is a growing trend to analyze the opportunities that PPP schemes can offer.

Jacob Fleming, being an acknowledged business to business intelligence company, recognizes the growing potential of PPPs in the Central and Eastern Europe. We provide a neutral communication platform for all the parties involved in designing, planning and executing PPP projects.

The Jacob Fleming’s PPP in CEE Conference is undoubtedly the oldest and most successful event of its kind. For three years now, has our company been attentively listening to the industry needs in order to put together this prestigious event. On October 15 and 16, 2007 the Corinthia Towers, a five star luxury hotel in Prague, hosted around 250 governmental, municipal and private sector representatives from all over Europe for our third annual in the series.

The first conference day was chaired by Jonathan Cripps, Partner, Project and Infrastructure Finance Group at Eversheds. His natural and easy going style kept the conference flow smooth and dynamic. The morning session of conference day 1 was opened a keynote by the International Project Finance Association. He outlined the current trends and future developments of PPPs across the European market with a special insight into the situation in CEE and its potential for 2008. Next the representative of the Czech PPP Unit – PPP Centre, Filip Drapak, looked at how risk management in PPP schemes can be assessed how this affects the partners involved in the PPP scheme. Legal insight was brought by Mike Mousdale of Eversheds, who addressed the issue of applying EU procurement rules to PPPs, especially he highlighted the importance of the competitive dialogue procedure.

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