Jatin Aneja is a Partner at the Firm and heads the national Projects and Infrastructure practice for Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co.

Jatin has extensive experience in project and project finance related transactions in the urban infrastructure, energy (conventional and renewable,) roads, ports, airports, railways, power, and oil and gas sector in India.

Jatin has been involved in advising various Indian as well as multi-national companies on commercial law aspects, including drafting, structuring and negotiating various joint venture agreements, shareholder agreements, business purchase agreements, share purchase agreements, financing agreements, EPC contracts, consortium agreements, and other related legal advisory work.

Jatin has led several precedent setting and high value transactions that have hugely impacted the projects and infrastructure landscape of India. In airports and railways sector, he advised GMR group on billion dollar investment by the Tata Group, GIC and SSG into GMR Airports Limited; the consortium of TRIL Urban Transport Private Limited and Siemens Project Ventures  to develop a metro corridor from Shivajinagar to Hinjewadi in Pune. He also advised the Ministry of Civil Aviation and AAI on the privatization of the Delhi and Mumbai airports and was responsible for settling the concession agreement(s) for brownfield airports (OMDA – For Delhi & Mumbai) and greenfield airports (For Bangalore airport), which have been followed for other airports. In the oil and gas sector, Jatin has been involved in almost each of the LNG projects developed in India starting from Petronet LNG Limited and has recently advised Abu Dhabi National Oil Company on their arrangement with Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Limited for the petroleum reserves based in Mangalore; and Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation Limited on sale of its 80% stake to Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited for US$ 1.2 billion, among several others.

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• GMR Airports Limited on acquisition of equity share capital of GMR Airports Limited and GMR Infra Services Limited by Aeroports de Paris, S.A. for US$ 1.6 billion.
• Brookfield in the acquisition of the East West Pipeline (a cross-country pipeline between Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh and Bharuch in Gujarat) from East West Pipeline Limited (a Reliance Group company) for US$ 2.4 billion.
• Canada’s largest pension investment managers in a bid invited by GVK Airport Developers Limited consisting of the sale of a significant minority stake of up to 49% in its wholly owned subsidiary GVK Airport Holdings Limited.
• Invenire Energy Private Limited in the 100% acquisition of Tata Petrodyne Limited, the oil and gas arm of the TATA group.
• Hines India Residential Manager LP (“Hines”) on its investment in ‘Parkwest’, a luxurious residential project based in Bangalore, India, promoted by Shapoorji Pallonji and Company Private Limited.
• Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation Limited in relation to sale of 80% stake to Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited for US$ 1.2 billion.
• Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. on India-leg of the transaction involving global restructuring and acquisition of its energy, chemicals and resources division by WorleyParsons Limited for US$ 3.2 billion.

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Professional Memberships

• Delhi Bar Association

Education

• B.A. LL.B, (Hons), National Law School of India University, Bangalore