Project Finance Strategies in India

Q1. You’ve worked extensively in project finance and structured deals across sectors — could you briefly outline how your responsibilities evolved as you moved into senior project development and financing roles?

It started out from making Financial Models & Proposal Notes for sanction, then it moved on to negotiating terms of sanction with both Clients and internal teams (Credit, Risk & Compliance). Finally culminating into managing teams, presenting proposals to sanctioning committees and Business Development.

Q2. With India’s infrastructure financing gap projected to remain large, how do blended finance structures and institutional capital participation influence the way you structure deals and evaluate financial viability?

Infrastructure is a long term game, anybody who wants to invest money either by way of Lending or Equity participation needs to have long term vision, although there will be short term challenges/risks but ultimately rewards in long term will out strip these challenges.

Q3. ESG criteria are increasingly embedded into credit evaluation and investor due diligence. How are you incorporating environmental and social risk assessments into financial models and bid structuring?

As far as Financial models are concerned, there is specific amount allocated for the same. The same is captured in Terms of sanction and…