Ashish practices primarily in the Infrastructure sector. He has a broad legal background of more than 22 years of post-qualification experience in Infrastructure Sector where he is advising on the entire value chain of Project Development (Green Field and Brown Field), Construction & Engineering, PMC and Merger & Acquisitions with focus towards Roads & Highways, Aviation, Oil & Gas companies, Airport Concessionaire/ Airport developers, Road Projects, Solar & Wind Power Projects on tendering issues, contract structuring, transfer of Participating Interest, Foreign Direct Investment and General Corporate Commercial, etc. He has extensively worked on projects relating to domestic and international acquisitions, PPA’s, EPC & Operation and Maintenance Contracts & Joint Ventures in Power sector, including Renewable Energy.
He has provided legal advice and services to both private sector as well as public sector entities, both domestic and international on a wide range of practice areas including General Corporate & Commercial, Foreign Direct Investment, Joint Ventures and Infrastructure Projects. In infrastructure sector he has dealt extensively on issues relating to EPC Contracts-FIDIC, NEC bases Contracts, DBFOT, BOT (Toll/Annuity), BOOT Projects carried out on a PPP basis and has also drafted various model Concession Agreements including EPCM Agreement for World Bank, Hybrid Annuity, Expressway Concession Agreement and Engineering & Procurement Contracts. Ashish also advises on risk analysis and providing mitigation strategies. He has extensively worked on projects relating to domestic and international expressways, road, building & construction, rail and power.
In the general corporate law space and M&A transactions, he has led the team of lawyers representing various multinational businesses, state-owned entities, private equity firms, and venture capital firms, particularly in the Infrastructure, Heavy engineering, R&D, Automotive, Construction & Engineering and has been involved in transaction involving more than USD 3-4 Billion of FDI in India in the last 4-5 years. His work assignments have related to the drafting of share sale and purchase agreements, joint venture agreements, shareholders agreements, and associated transaction documents and rending strategic advice to his clients – domestic and foreign.
