Lead sponsorship

• Prominent branding and logo promotion (event microsite, banners, e-brochures, social media)
• Standalone presentation including Q&A (20-minutes)
• Opportunity to join a relevant panel discussion (10-minutes)
• Company logo will be displayed on the event website and the registration page
• Company logo will be displayed in the opening and closing slide
• Sponsor company mentioned in each promotional mailer
• Mention in social media posts including a post on the speaker from your company
• 10-20 complimentary logins
• Acknowledgement of sponsor in the virtual event opening and closing remarks
• Email/EDM featuring sponsor information to attendees and database of key contacts
• Sharing leads generated and participant list
• Logo to be branded on the post-event recording of the virtual event
• Sponsor session to be uploaded for one month for views
• Opportunity to interact virtually with the top officials in the industry

Co-sponsorship

• Branding and logo promotion (event microsite, banners, e-brochures, social media)
• Standalone presentation including Q&A (20-minutes) OR opportunity to join a relevant panel discussion
• 8-10 complimentary logins
• Email/EDM featuring sponsor logo to attendees and database of key contacts
• Sharing leads generated and participant list
• Logo to be branded on the post-event recording of the virtual event
• Sponsor session to be uploaded for one month for views

For  sponsorship opportunities, contact:
Tania Agarwal,
Email: tania.agarwal@indiainfrastructure.com
Tel: +91-9711588987

Organisers:        

• The road ahead for infrastructure financing in India looks promising despite the macroeconomic headwinds. A number of alternative and long-term funding avenues are being explored in addition to the traditional sources. However, with the second wave of the pandemic significantly impacting the growth prospects in 2021-22, lenders and investors continue to remain cautious.
• Credit growth to infrastructure showed some improvement in 2020-21, but the operating environment for banks remained challenging. Infrastructure credit grew marginally by 3.6 per cent in 2020-21, primarily driven by the road sector.
• The bond market saw some positive developments backed by policy changes. In March 2020, the RBI had long-term repo operations (LTRO) and targeted LTRO facilities, under which banks can access three-year funds up to Rs 1 trillion to invest in corporate bonds. A number of corporates and NBFCs including Reliance Industries, the Tata Group, Larsen & Toubro, the Power Finance Corporation and the Indian Railway Finance Corporation were among the big issuers of debt papers in 2020-21.
• Meanwhile, disinvestment and public asset recycling have emerged as important alternative fundraising routes. The government has approved a policy of strategic disinvestment of public sector enterprises and aims to generate receipts of Rs 1,750 billion from disinvestments in 2021-22. Potential brownfield infrastructure assets including roads, airports, electricity transmission, oil and gas pipelines, and telecom towers have been identified under the National Monetisation Pipeline.
• Despite a cautious stance, foreign investors continue to assume a prominent role, especially in the road, power, renewable and telecom sectors. Investments in these sectors have come through private equity (PE) funds, pension funds and sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), strategic investors, infrastructure bonds, IDFs, etc. Greenfield and brownfield projects, operational assets, developer firms, supplier businesses, etc. have all attracted investor interest.
• A lot of this institutional interest has come through InvITs and the toll-operate-transfer (TOT) model. While three TOT bundles have been awarded, more than half a dozen InvITs have been launched and many more are in the offing. Road is the most popular sector with three InvITs, followed by one each in power transmission, gas and telecom. The National Highways Authority of India and Power Grid Corporation of India are in the process of listing their assets under InvITs.
• In 2020-21 PE activity also continued to grow, dominated by investments in Jio Platforms, which constituted around 71 per cent of the total PE investments. Some of the other key deals include Global Infrastructure Partners acquiring 306 MW of solar assets from the RattanIndia Group, Cube Highways acquiring Chenani Nashri Tunnelway Limited, Qatar Investment Authority acquiring Adani Electricity Mumbai, and Orix Corporation acquiring a stake in Greenko Energy Holdings.
• IPO activity in the infrastructure sector has been driven by the government’s intent to meet its disinvestment target. IRCTC emerged as one of the most sought after IPOs ever among public sector undertaking IPOs, being oversubscribed by nearly 112 times. RailTel’s IPO was subscribed 42 times on the final day of subscription.
• Among multilateral development banks, new generation banks such as Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the New Development Bank (NDB) have built up a sizeable infrastructure investment portfolio in the past few years.
• Going forward, new and alternate funding sources have to be developed and tapped to meet the massive infrastructure requirements of Rs 111 trillion under the National Infrastructure Pipeline. The creation of a development finance institution (DFI) with a capital base of Rs 200 billion will facilitate long-term funding to infrastructure projects. That said, the economic fallout of the pandemic will have a lingering effect on the financial system in the current fiscal. The disruptions caused by the pandemic will lead to a slow recovery in investor confidence, and will also increase the need for debt restructuring and refinancing.
• The mission of this conference is to discuss the current stance of investors and financiers in light of the pandemic, identify the potential funding sources to tap long-term financing for projects, and assess the short-term and long-term outlook for infrastructure financing in India.

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The list of confirmed speakers includes (in alphabetical order):

• Kunal Agarwal, Principal, I Squared Capital
• Prateek Bagaria, Partner, Singularity Legal
• Rohit Chandak, CFO, Ayana Renewables
• Rahul Chhaparwal, Executive Director, Special Situation Funds, Kotak Investment Advisors
• Marjin Flinterman, Senior Investment Manager, Head of MENA DARP, Omni Bridgeway
• Paritosh Garga, GM, CPD, IIFCL
• Sujata Guhathakurta, Senior Executive VP & Head, Debt Capital Market, Kotak Mahindra Bank
• Vishal Gupta, Senior VP, SBI Caps
• Pratibha Jain, General Counsel, Everstone Capital
• Pushkar Kulkarni, Managing Director, CPP Investment Board
• Arvindran Manoosegaran, Investment Manager, Omni Bridgeway
• Montek Mayal, Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting
• Harsh Mhavarkar, Vice President, Structuring, SBI
• Roger Millburn, Investment Manager and arbitration specialist, LCM Singapore
• Rajat Mishra, Director General, AIIB
• Prashant Murkute, Senior Vice President and Group Head, Axis Bank
• Sanjeev Pandey, DGM Stressed Asset Recovery Group, SBI
• Ravichandran, Executive Vice President, and Deputy Chief Rating Officer, ICRA
• Ritesh Sampat, Executive Vice President and Head – Debt Capital, HDFC
• Veenu Singla, Vice President, Kotak Infrastructure Debt Fund
• Kunjal Thacker, Chief Financial Officer, Pipeline Infrastructure
• Sivaramakrishna V, Vice President, Global Infrastructure Partners

The conference is a must-attend event for all infrastructure developers seeking financing as well as for financiers seeking projects for funding. The conference is targeted at:

• Infrastructure developers
• Infrastructure finance groups in commercial banks
• Private equity firms
• Infrastructure fund managers
• Institutional investors
• Bilateral and multilateral agencies
• Development agencies
• State financial corporations
• Insurance firms
• Credit rating firms
• Sector consultants
• Legal firms
• Infrastructure project contractors
• Technology & equipment providers
• Sectoral advisory firms
• Financial institutions
• Financial advisory firms
• Asset reconstruction companies
• NBFCs
• Sectoral advisory firms

Delegate benefits (Virtual Conference)

• Direct interaction with senior speakers (Q&A facility)
• Easy connectivity to geographically dispersed delegates (click of a mouse)
• Concise report offered as a backgrounder
• Cost effective (lower ticket price as compared to a physical conference)
• Offers flexibility and convenience
• Access to conference recording
• Recap of conference sessions
• Contributes to sustainability and lower carbon footprint

For registration process/payment to attend the conference, please contact:

Tania Agarwal,
Email: tania.agarwal@indiainfrastructure.com
Tel: +91-9711588987

• There is a 15 per cent “early bird” discount for those registering before August 10, 2021
• GST @18 per cent is applicable on the registration fee.
• Registration will be confirmed on receipt of the payment.