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Provided by Santosh Janakiram

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Senior Partner

Projects & Project Financing/ Banking

Mr. Santosh Janakiram is a Senior partner and head of Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas’ Projects Group and previously was a partner in Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co. (AMSS), India’s largest law firm. He has worked in AMSS/CAM’s Mumbai office since 2001.

Santosh has extensive experience in banking, project financing, acquisition financing, structured financing and private equity and represents developers, sponsors, lenders and contractors in infrastructure and project finance transactions. Santosh has advised on various bond and structured debt financings. He also leads the firm’s renewable energy practice advising developers, investors and lenders in one of the leading practices in the sector in India.

Santosh has acted on a number of landmark transactions this year:-

• Represented the consortium of lenders on extending green loan facilities to certain subsidiaries of Adani Green Energy Limited by way of an ECB Facility and an offshore guarantee facility.

• Represented the consortium of lenders in relation to the extension of financial assistance to Cube Highways Trust (Borrower) by way of rupee term loan facilities, to be utilized, inter alia, for the purpose of refinancing existing loans and/or the promoter/ sponsor debt, in relation to identified special purpose vehicles.

• Represented India Grid Trust, a public listed infrastructure investment trust in its transaction to acquire the units held by Terra Asia Holdings II Pte. Ltd. (Terra Asia) in Virescent Renewable Energy Trust (VRET), in relation to the due diligence of the power purchase agreements, EPC contracts, operation and maintenance contracts and material regulatory approvals of around 16 SPVs of VRET engaged in solar power generation across multiple states in India.

Professional Memberships

Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa,

India

Education

B.A. LLB., National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, 2001

Awards

Ranked in "Band 2" for Projects Infrastructure & energy and Banking & finance practices in India.

at ‘Chambers and Partners

Recognized as “A- list” lawyer, 2024 & 2025.

at IBLJ

Ranked ‘Leading Lawyer Champions’ for Projects and Energy, 2022- 2024.

at Legal Era Leading Lawyers

Ranked as ‘Highly Regarded’, (2020-2024) for Project Development; Banking; Project Finance.

at IFLR1000

Ranked as “Leading Lawyer” for Project & Energy (2019-2025).

at Legal500

Ranked ‘Recommended lawyer’, 2021

at Global Leader Project Finance

Ranked ‘Global Leader: India’ 2023 and ‘Thought Leader’ 2021- 2023

at Who's Who Legal

Ranked ‘Distinguished Practitioner’ for Banking & Finance, 2023 & 2024.

at AsiaLaw

“Lawyer of the Year” for Project Finance, 2020 and 2021.

IFLR1000 India Awards

Chambers Review

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Chambers Asia & Pacific

Projects, Infrastructure & Energy - India

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Band 2
Individual Editorial
Santosh Janakiram in Mumbai is respected for his expertise in project finance. He advises international private equity houses and financial institutions on transactions in the solar energy and infrastructure spaces.

Banking & Finance - India

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Band 2
Individual Editorial
Santosh Janakiram is a partner at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas and is based in its Mumbai office. He is especially active on financing in relation to renewable energy.

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