L&T Infrastructure Finance Company Limited

L&T Infrastructure Finance Company
Type Public
Industry Finance
Founded 2006
Founder(s) A.M. Naik
Headquarters Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Area served World-Wide
Key people Chairman
Parent Larsen & Toubro
Website [1]

L&T Infrastructure Finance Company Limited (Infra) is a part of L&T Finance Holdings Limited which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro Limited. LT Infra is a Non Banking Financial Company (NBFC) registered under Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Act 1934. The company commenced operations in January 2007.

Larsen & Toubro Limited(L&T) is a Technology, Engineering, Construction and Manufacturing company. It is one of the largest companies in India's private sector.

Larsen & Toubro Infrastructure Finance was set up as a 100% subsidiary of L&T with an initial capital of 500 crore (US$95 million). It commenced its business in January 2007 upon obtaining Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC) license from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

As of March 31, 2008, L&T Infrastructure Finance has approved financing of more than more than two billion USD to selected projects in the infrastructure sector (as on 31st March 2011).

Contents

Board of directors

Name Designation Positions Held
Mr. Y M Deosthalee Chairman CFO and Member of Board, L&T Limited
Mr. N Sivaraman Director Executive Vice President, L&T Limited
Mr. B V Bhargava Independent Director Chairman, CRISIL & NCDEX Ex- Vice Chairman & Managing Director, ICICI Ltd.
Mr. R H Patil Independent Director Chairman, Clearing Corporation of India Ltd.,Founder Chairman of NSE (1993–2001)

Management team

Name Designation Experience
Mr. Suneet K Maheshwari Chief Executive 24 yrs in advisory and financing of infrastructure projects at ICICI Ltd., Feedback Ventures & SREI Infrastructure Finance Ltd.
Mr. Ramesh Bhujang Chief - Risk and Asset Management 28 yrs in financial sector in India & abroad at UBI, UTI, IDBI and AFIC
Mr. Mr. G. Krishnamurthy General Manager - Project Finance Group B. Tech (Mechanical) from IIT Mumbai and PGDM from IIM Bangalore, with over 19 years of work experience in Project Finance, Infrastructure Finance and Project Development
Mr. Akshayaa Singh Head - Infrastructure Private Equity 16+ years of experience in the infrastructure, real estate and telecom sectors with focus on private equity investments and real estate investments.
Mr. N. Suryanarayan Chief Financial Officer Chartered Accountant, cost accountant, company secretary and a law graduate with over 25 years of experience in finance, accounts, secretarial and human resources.

Functional Areas

Project Finance Group

Project Finance Group (PFG) is primarily responsible for business development, appraisal of projects and client relationship management including monitoring, collection & recovery. This group facilitates decision making for LT Infra to lend/invest in various projects. The main objective of PFG is to structure and provide tailor made solutions to its clients in terms of debt, sub-debt, quasi-equity funding, equity Investments etc. The bouquet of financing products being offered by this group is as under:-

Term loan

Mezzanine debt/ Sub debt

Leasing

Structured finance

Risk Management

As part of the appraisal process undertaken by the PFG, a risk analysis for the projects is carried out by the Risk Management department. Based on the risk analysis, PFG designs/recommends the appropriate risk mitigation structures to enhance the viability. After the project feasibility is established by PFG, the proposal is put forward for approval.

Project Development

The project development group has been set up as a distinct group to explore business opportunities in infrastructure projects, particularly energy and transportation sectors. The objective of the group is to identify and work on projects where LT Infra can participate in development of infrastructure projects as co-developer by taking equity/equity linked positions in the Developer Company.

Products & Services

LT Infra offers a range of products and services to its clients in the infrastructure sector so as to provide them with total financing solutions. In this regard, the following will be the main types of assistances available from LT Infra:

Term loan

Lease

Syndication

Structured finance

Equity

References

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