India’s infrastructure sector is central to its economic growth agenda, attracting significant investment from both domestic and international players across diverse sectors including transportation, energy, logistics, urban development, and digital infrastructure. However, these projects, often large-scale and complex, require meticulous legal structuring, multi-stakeholder coordination, regulatory navigation, and dispute management to ensure project bankability and operational viability.
KNM & Partners brings a multidisciplinary approach to infrastructure and project finance, seamlessly integrating its strengths in corporate advisory, banking & finance, dispute resolution, and taxation to support stakeholders at every phase of the project lifecycle. The Firm’s legal services cover the entire value chain – from bid preparation and financial closure to project execution, dispute resolution, and asset monetization.
The Firm has advised a wide spectrum of clients including project developers, EPC contractors, multilateral lenders, investors, private equity funds, sovereign entities, infrastructure investment trusts (InvITs), and government authorities, offering sector-specific legal and regulatory expertise. The Firm’s experience extends across sectors such as roads and highways, airports, ports, power generation (including renewable and hydro), telecom, water supply, waste management, smart cities, and industrial corridors.
In the dynamic infrastructure environment, where contractual risks, regulatory interventions, and funding challenges are common, The Firm’s project finance team provides strategic support in structuring innovative and bankable funding solutions. The Firm assists in mitigating legal and regulatory risks, negotiating commercial agreements, aligning projects with tax efficiencies, and ensuring statutory and regulatory compliance. Additionally, the Firm represents clients in high-stakes infrastructure disputes and regulatory litigations before arbitral tribunals, NCLT, High Courts, and sectoral regulators.
Through the Firm’s holistic, commercially aligned approach, the Firm enables clients to address the multifaceted challenges of infrastructure projects – whether navigating concession disputes, managing lender expectations, securing environmental approvals, or unlocking value through asset sales and refinancing. The Firm’s deep sectoral understanding, cross-practice synergy, and sharp legal insights make us a preferred legal partner in India’s infrastructure and project finance space.
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Advising on the legal structuring of infrastructure projects including formation of special purpose vehicles (SPVs), joint ventures, consortium arrangements, shareholder agreements, and concession agreements, ensuring balanced risk allocation and alignment with investment mandates.
Representing lenders, financial institutions, and developers in project finance transactions, including syndicated lending, ECBs, refinancing, and structured credit facilities. Drafting and negotiating loan agreements, security documents, intercreditor agreements, and escrow arrangements.
Drafting and reviewing critical project agreements such as EPC contracts, O&M contracts, PPAs, model concession agreements (MCAs), and procurement contracts, ensuring risk mitigation, regulatory compliance, and alignment with contractual obligations.
Representing clients in infrastructure and construction disputes involving delay claims, escalation, termination disputes, and regulatory breaches before arbitral tribunals, NCLT, High Courts, and regulatory bodies such as NHAI, CERC, and State Electricity Commissions.
Providing tax-efficient structuring strategies for infrastructure investments and projects, evaluating withholding tax exposures, GST applicability, input credits, tax holidays, and cross-border tax implications.
Advising on permits, environmental clearances, land acquisition approvals, licensing, and sector-specific regulations by authorities such as NHAI, MoRTH, SECI, MNRE, and CPCB. Ensuring projects comply with statutory requirements and regulatory timelines.
Conducting detailed legal due diligence of infrastructure assets and projects, assessing title, encumbrances, project approvals, compliance history, and contract enforceability for facilitating investments, acquisitions, and financing.
Advising investors and lenders on asset monetization, distressed asset sales, refinancing of project debt, and enforcing lender rights, including restructuring under IBC and RBI frameworks, and recovery proceedings before DRT, NCLT, and High Courts.
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