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Advisory on infrastructure and development transactions involving public and private participation — PPPs, concessions and major project structures designed to survive their term.
Why this matters
Most infrastructure failures are governance failures, not engineering failures.
Roads do not collapse because of concrete. Concessions do not collapse because of traffic. They collapse because risk was allocated to the wrong party, termination compensation was undefined, and change-in-law was a footnote. The firm advises on infrastructure deals with the failure modes of the last twenty years in view.
— Infrastructure bench
Services
Mandates run as transactional advisory on a single project, sponsor-side or grantor-side, with engagement scoped to the close or extended through operations.
Phase 01
Project structuring
SPV, shareholding, debt-equity mix and step-in mechanics.
PPP advisory
Concession, BOT, BOO and management contract models.
Risk allocation matrix
Who carries what — and what they get paid for it.
Bankability assessment
Lender-ready structures, not optimistic ones.
Phase 02
Concession agreements
The grantor-side bargain in a document that performs.
Construction & O&M
EPC, EPCM and O&M packages aligned with the concession.
Direct & tripartite agreements
Lender step-in, government undertaking, sponsor support.
Change-in-law & force majeure
Priced into the document, not negotiated in court.
Termination & compensation
Calculations that pay, not formulas that fight.
Phase 03
Regulatory compliance
Sector approvals, ICRC, BPP and grantor sign-offs.
Risk management
Ongoing operations: tariff, performance and reporting compliance.
Variation & re-financing
Structured amendments that survive the next administration.
Dispute resolution
Tiered ADR, expert determination and arbitration under the contract.
Approach
Four steps. Click any one to see the artifacts produced.
Step 01 · Artifacts
Step 02 · Artifacts
Step 03 · Artifacts
Step 04 · Artifacts
Who we represent
A representative — not exhaustive — list of the clients the firm accepts mandates from under infrastructure advisory.
What success looks like
01
Bankable structure, lender package and CPs cleared on schedule.
02
Force-majeure, change-in-law and termination compensation drafted to perform.
03
Tariff and scope changes resolved through expert determination, not court.
04
Direct agreements and government undertakings designed for continuity.
Bench on this matter
The named partners on an infrastructure mandate are the partners who run it. Associates assist; they do not replace.
Senior partner · infrastructure
Leads concession, PPP and major-project mandates — sponsor and grantor side.
Partner · construction & disputes
EPC, O&M and project-level disputes, including expert determination and arbitration.
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