The Financial Advisory Division (FAD) utilizes its expertise in providing specialist skills in meeting your specific requirement in:

• raising capital through private equity, financial or strategic partners;
• risk assessment and mitigation strategies, infrastructure project risk scoring tools;
• project finance, debt funding, including restructuring/refinancing of existing debt facilities;

With prior experience in using wide range of financing techniques, the FAD team aims to adopt a unique approach to structuring, equity and debt fund raising. Highly proficient FAD team with experts from investment banking, project finance and credit risk background provides required commercial, financial and transactional experience to deliver wide-ranging and novel financing solutions for infrastructure projects – both social and economic in nature. The key areas of specialist service provision are:

Project financing
The key to determining the most favorable financial structure that best suit the project needs, and then negotiating business that enables a win-win for the borrower or lender with the preferred option for debt instrument and financial agreements is a structured process in project finance transactions that FAD follows. It allows first to understand the project economics and risk allocation before being able to assist in project financing aspects. The approach is to provide support throughout the financing life cycle of a project and add much needed value at every stage. Specific areas of support include:

• Assisting developers and other investors in raising project equity, debt, guarantees, and enable financial closure of projects.
• Providing advice on project structuring and optimum capital structure to reduce the cost of capital.
• Facilitating wider access to multilateral and bilateral development finance, external commercial borrowings and export credit assistance.
• Advisory assistance in refinancing/take-out financing, buy back of loans, securitization and credit enhancement for operating infrastructure assets.
• Facilitating access to working capital, bridge loans, and lines of credit.

Raising Growth Capital

FAD aims to assist companies/projects in raising growth capital through private equity (PE) investments. FAD has strong network with PE funds that gives a distinct advantage in understanding preferences and value addition. Our services include:

• Analysis of viable dilution options for required growth capital
• Business valuation as per the Business Plan of the company
• Identification of qualified financial partners
• Development of Investor collaterals
• Assistance in transaction structuring, negotiations, and closing

Risk Advisory Services
FAD provides integrated funding solutions that are very helpful to clients. FAD has necessary specialist skills in funding strategy, risk management, financial structuring and transaction delivery capabilities along with proprietary infrastructure project risk scoring. FAD assists in:

• Infrastructure Project Appraisal/Risk Scoring: FAD assesses and scores project risks throughout its lifecycle from the perspective of various stakeholders.
• Asset Management/Loan or Investment Supervision: FAD continuously monitors individual project risks or portfolio risks, and risk-adjusted exposure for banks and other lenders based on availability of credit enhancements/collaterals
• Risk Return Profiling for Prospective Investments: FAD conducts scenario analysis and constructs a matrix to evaluate possible returns by simulating projections and determines project risks to facilitate preferences between investment avenues

The first hand experience enables FAD to act as financial advisors on a diverse range of infrastructure projects.