SREI to offer advisory services to aviation sector with CAPA

21 December 2005

SREI Capital Markets Ltd (SCML), a part of SREI Infrastructure Finance Ltd, has signed an agreement with the Australia's Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA) Pty Ltd for extending advisory services to the Indian aviation sector.

The MoU is the first of its kind in India between an Indian private sector merchant banker and a specialist aviation consulting organisation.

CAPA, has its Indian operations in New Delhi.

SCML, a SEBI-registered merchant banker and underwriter is a wholly owned subsidiary of SREI Infrastructure. SCML and CAPA will compliment their skills and expertise to provide infrastructure advisory to the Indian aviation sector. SCML will render financial expertise in the areas of financial engineering, transaction structuring, restructuring, privatisation, investment analysis and risk management, raising of resources through floatation in the domestic and / or overseas markets and arrange for debt and equity funding.

CAPA will provide aviation consultancy in the areas of airline start-up planning and management, airport marketing and development strategy, passenger and freight traffic forecasting, route analysis and development, tourism development policy strategies, government policy and regulatory analysis.