Vishwas Udgirkar

Vishwas is a Partner with Deloitte and leads ‘GUIDe: Government Utilities and Infrastructure Development’ Practice in India. His areas of expertise include business planning, Public Private Partnerships (PPPs), bankability studies, commercial due diligence, and project finance. He has about 30 years of experience working closely with public, private and international development agencies across infrastructure sectors- roads & highways, energy, ports, railways, logistics, airports, housing, health and education. He has been involved in advising governments and infrastructure clients in South and South East Asia, Africa and Japan.

In the Infrastructure and PPP domain, Vishwas has to his credit more than 30 projects involving development of PPP related Policies, Guidelines, Model Contracts, and capacity development. He has undertaken more than 50 PPP Transaction Advisory engagements for various Governments, and more than 30 PPP Transaction engagements with the private sector. Vishwas has been a trusted advisor to the nodal Roads & Highways development agencies in India and abroad (both public and private). He has been a part of the key innovations in the roads sector in India, starting from the initial PPP projects up to development and rolling-out of the latest Hybrid Annuity model. With his deep knowledge of infrastructure project finance, he has advised on numerous complex projects involving debt syndication and equity arrangements required in PPP project financing. Vishwas has also managed public issue of deep discounting/ infrastructure bonds and initial public offerings in India. Vishwas is an active thought leader and writes regularly on PPPs, and infrastructure finance in well-known business publications and social media platforms.