Competitive Strengths

Strong Board & Advisory Team

The Directors and the team of professionals at the investment advisor have extensive experience in infrastructure fund management and a strong track record of value creation.

Rupert Cottrell, Non-Executive Chairman of Infrastructure India was previously a director of The PFI Infrastructure Co plc (“PFI Co”), the UK’s first publicly traded PFI infrastructure fund. PFI Co achieved a 34% IRR for initial investors and a 233% total value uplift.

Gary Neville, who leads the team at Bloomsbury Asset Management Advisors, the investment advisor, and Andrew Friend, a senior strategic advisor to the Company, were previously at John Laing plc, one of the largest publicly quoted infrastructure investors in the UK at the time. Both played an active role in delivering approximately 45% IRR for investors from October 2001 to December 2006 and in achieving the sale of John Laing plc to Henderson for just over £1bn at the end of 2006.

Strength of operations on the ground in India

Since listing on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in June 2008 the Company has continued to broaden its industrial and commercial relations within India's business and infrastructure communities.

BAMA, the investment advisor, has been active in the Indian infrastructure market since early 2007 and has developed a strong network of contacts across the country.

It is the Company’s intention to continue to make acquisitions in conjunction with blue chip partners.

Quick decision-making

The structure the Company has put in place enables decisions on potential investments to be made relatively quickly, avoiding the bureaucracy often associated with this process and resulting in short lead times for projects.

Advanced pipeline

The Group has a well-developed pipeline of potential investments and includes a broad range of potential new transactions across the country with some of India's leading road construction companies as well as other transportation projects and a number of energy projects.

Appropriate timing for entry into the Indian infrastructure market

The Directors believe that the increasing rate and nature of change in the Indian economy indicates that timing is appropriate for entry into the Indian infrastructure sector, and that project equity returns should be expected to increase as the infrastructure sector matures.