Covers recent financings in the infrastructure sectors across funding sources such as bank lending, capital markets, disinvestments, M&A deals, debt restructuring, bond issues, private equity, etc.
Ministry of Finance, M&A, acquisition, IPO, disinvestment, stressed asset, loan, equity, multilateral, bonds, restructuring, debt, InvIT, fund, green bonds, stranded, RBI, investor, IDF, private equity, project equity
Prateek Bagaria, Partner, Singularity Legal Third-party funding or litigation financing has been a staple of the disputes landscape for many years. It has proved to be an effective and efficient risk management tool, and recent […]
In the past few years, there has been an influx of foreign capital into the country’s infrastructure sector. Large corporates, revenue generating infrastructure assets and high growth potential companies have caught investors’ attention. The influx […]
At present, banks are loaded with liquidity, and many investors are seeking high-rated projects. While banks prefer AA and AAA credit ratings, they are willing to accept A-rated projects as well. Banks have surplus funds […]
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has played a crucial role in funding infrastructure projects in India. It has been providing financial as well as technical assistance to the centre and states over the years. The […]
Given its ambitious renewable energy targets and favourable business environment, India has become a key destination for foreign investments. According to Renewable Watch Research, in the past five years, over 100 foreign investment deals have […]
The National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF), India’s first sovereign wealth fund, with a planned corpus of Rs 400 billion, was created in December 2015 by the Government of India, which has a 49 per […]
Infrastructure investment trusts (InvITs) have become quite a successful investment instrument in the past few years. Since the launch of the first InvIT in 2014, several quality sponsors have successfully launched both public and private […]
Infrastructure financing in India faces many obstacles, ranging from the excessive cost of raising capital to the lack of long-term funding. Financing infrastructure projects is challenging, mainly due to the insufficiency of capital and liquidity […]
Commercial bank funding has increased the pace of infrastructure development in India in recent years. At a recent India Infrastructure Forum event, P.R. Jaishankar, Managing Director, India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited (IIFCL), shared his views […]
The road ahead for infrastructure financing in India looks promising despite macroeconomic headwinds. With the second wave of the pandemic significantly impacting growth prospects in 2021-22, lenders and investors continue to remain cautious. Credit growth […]
Banks have been the conventional loan providers for road projects in the country. However, in the past few years, several long-term investors have emerged in the market. These institutional investors put their money into operational […]
Infrastructure financing in India faces many obstacles, ranging from the excessive cost of raising capital to lack of long-term funding. It becomes challenging to finance infrastructure projects, mainly due to the insufficiency of capital and […]
The government has made a concerted effort in recent years to attract private equity (PE) investments, especially in the infrastructure sectors. In the pre-Covid era, PE investments had picked up substantially, especially in sectors such […]
Infrastructure investment trusts (InvITs) are likely to be the next big infrastructure story in India. With an annuity-like business model, InvITs have managed to navigate the market uncertainty, even in Covid times. Since their conceptualisation in […]
Over the past couple of years, the government has made concerted efforts to attract foreign investments into India, especially in the infrastructure sectors. Investments have come through private equity (PE) funds, pension funds and sovereign […]
In the digital age, financial institutions such as banks and non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) are adopting new business plans in line with the evolving credit ecosystem in India. These include the increasing use of digital […]
The need for litigation finance is on the rise due to increasing globalisation and the liberalisation of funding regimes across jurisdictions. With suitable conditions in the Indian market and support for litigation finance in the Indian […]
Municipal financing in India has not been defined in a holistic manner. This is impeding municipal corporations from tapping the huge potential of wealth generation in cities. The fundamental approach towards cities has to change. […]
