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Infrastructure — Advisory for Infrastructure Businesses in India
Infrastructure

Advisory for Infrastructure Businesses in India

Samagra advises infrastructure developers, EPC contractors and real-estate businesses on project finance, SPV structuring, regulatory advisory and disputes — with sensitivity to long project cycles and complex counterparty structures.

Overview

Infrastructure businesses operate under long project timelines, multi-party contracts, staged financing and heavy regulation. The right structure at the SPV, tax and financing level can be the difference between a bankable project and a stalled one.

Our infrastructure practice brings project-finance, tax, corporate law and dispute-resolution expertise to bid, structure, finance and defend infrastructure projects across sectors.

How we help

Advisory areas for Infrastructure

Project Finance & Structuring

  • SPV design and shareholding structure
  • Debt syndication and consortium coordination
  • InvIT and REIT structuring
  • Public-private partnership (PPP) advisory
  • Foreign investment and ECB structuring

Regulatory & Contracts

  • Concession agreement and EPC contract review
  • Regulatory approvals and licensing
  • RERA, land, and title advisory (real estate)
  • Environment and forest clearances
  • Bid documentation and joint-venture drafting

Tax, GST & Compliance

  • Direct tax and MAT structuring for SPVs
  • GST on works contracts, EPC and real estate
  • Section 80-IA and infrastructure incentives
  • Transfer pricing for group contracts
  • Ongoing MCA, RBI and FEMA compliance

Disputes & Restructuring

  • Arbitration and dispute strategy
  • IBC advisory — promoter and creditor side
  • One-time settlement and debt restructuring
  • Asset monetisation and divestment
  • Litigation before regulators and tribunals
Our approach

How we engage

  1. 01

    Project Review

    Understand project scope, counterparties, timelines and risk allocation.

  2. 02

    Structure

    Design SPV, tax, financing and contractual structure.

  3. 03

    Execute

    Debt tie-up, approvals, filings and closing coordination.

  4. 04

    Support & Defend

    Ongoing compliance, restructuring and dispute support through the project life.

Why Samagra

Why infrastructure choose us

  • Understanding of project structuring, DSCR and lender expectations
  • Experience across roads, real estate, power, logistics and water
  • Combined corporate, tax and litigation capability under one roof
  • Comfort with multi-jurisdiction and multi-lender structures
  • Long project-cycle mindset — not transactional
Illustrative scenarios

Illustrative advisory scenarios

Examples of situations in which businesses and stakeholders may require integrated financial, transaction, restructuring, governance or dispute advisory support.

The scenarios below are illustrative examples created to explain the types of situations in which Samagra Advisors may provide advisory support. They do not represent actual client engagements, testimonials, completed transactions or guaranteed outcomes. Any figures, ranges, timelines or stakeholder profiles are indicative context only.

Illustrative infrastructure scenario — regulatory & compliance uplift

Typical situation — A infrastructure business is preparing for a fresh regulatory cycle — for example a sectoral licence renewal, a SEBI / RBI / MCA filing window, or heightened lender-covenant reporting — and needs to close historical gaps without disrupting operations.

Key considerations — Focus areas typically include spv design and shareholding structure, debt syndication and consortium coordination and invit and reit structuring, along with a compliance register refresh, event-based filing calendars, secretarial audit gaps and cross-checks between statutory records and management MIS.

How Samagra may assist — Samagra may support a compliance diagnostic, a remediation roadmap prioritised by risk, and coordinated CS, legal and tax execution to close gaps and set up an ongoing monitoring cadence.

Regulators typically in scope
MCA / SEBI / RBI / sectoral
Indicative timeline
6 – 14 weeks
Records reviewed
3 – 5 preceding financial years
Reporting cadence
Monthly or event-based

Possible workstreams

  • Compliance register & filing-calendar refresh
  • Historical-gap remediation plan
  • Secretarial-audit readiness
  • Lender & investor covenant reporting
  • Ongoing monitoring cadence

Illustrative infrastructure scenario — transaction readiness (buy / sell / JV)

Typical situation — A infrastructure promoter is evaluating an inbound acquisition offer, a bolt-on purchase, or a joint venture with a strategic partner — and needs to understand valuation, deal-structure and post-closing implications before signing an NDA or term-sheet.

Key considerations — Typical questions include concession agreement and epc contract review, regulatory approvals and licensing and rera, land, and title advisory (real estate), alongside indicative valuation ranges, earn-out design, escrow and indemnity architecture, tax and stamp-duty exposure, and post-closing integration or exit rights.

How Samagra may assist — Samagra may support an independent valuation view, structure-and-tax alternatives, negotiation of key commercial terms and coordinated documentation across financial, legal and tax counsel.

Deal-size context
INR 50 – 500 Cr
Indicative timeline
5 – 9 months to closing
Diligence workstreams
Financial / tax / legal / commercial
Typical earn-out horizon
12 – 36 months

Possible workstreams

  • Independent valuation & benchmarks
  • Structure & tax alternatives
  • Term-sheet & SPA negotiation support
  • Escrow, indemnity & earn-out design
  • Post-closing integration checklist

Discuss your organisation's specific situation

Every engagement depends on the organisation's circumstances, records, stakeholders and objectives. Schedule a confidential preliminary consultation to discuss the appropriate scope.

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FAQs

Frequently asked questions

Do you help with debt syndication for infrastructure projects?

Yes. We work with banks, NBFCs and infrastructure lenders on project debt, refinancing and consortium coordination.

Can you advise on InvIT structures?

Yes. We advise sponsors on InvIT and REIT structuring, SEBI compliance and unit-holder framework.

Do you handle infrastructure disputes and arbitration?

Yes. Concession disputes, EPC claims and arbitration strategy — often in coordination with senior arbitration counsel.

Engage Samagra

Speak to our infrastructure advisory team.

Share a brief on your business and we'll respond with a clear path forward within one working day.

All conversations are confidential. We typically respond within one business day.

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