Education: -LL B 1988 Delhi University, B Com (Hons.) 1985 Delhi University.Amit Kapur is a Partner with J. Sagar Associates since 2000. He has anchored the Firm’s Infrastructure practice since 1997 with focus on infrastructure sectors. Having served as Senior Partner of JSA since 01.04.2017, on 01.01.2019 Amit assumed office as the Joint Managing Partner of the Firm. His practice focusses on dispute resolution, public procurement, PPP and transactions in Energy (Power, Hydrocarbons, natural resources); Transport (Rail, Highways and Civil Aviation); Communications; Municipal Infrastructure and Social / Developmental projects. He is regularly consulted on Infrastructure, Regulatory and PPP issues by several ministries/bodies of Central and State Governments; Developmental Financial Institutions (the World Bank, PPIAF, WSP-SA, ADB); Competition & Sector regulators and leading Indian and foreign Corporates (like the Tata Group, Adani Group, GVK Group, GMR Group, Vedanta Group, Larsen & Toubro, Reliance ADA Group, Torrent). In recent past, he actively assisted the Kelkar Committee on Rejuvenation of Infrastructure Development (2015); He served as member of Ministry of Law appointed committee to review the Specific Relief Act, 1963 which led to amendment to the law in October 2018.Amit has been associated with several precedent setting Infrastructure and PPP projects like Delhi electricity privatisation; Metro Rail projects in Mumbai & Delhi; the first 3 ultra-mega power projects (each involving over US$ 3.5 billion); pilot projects for social/developmental Infrastructure, including:-
-Advising on constitutional, legal, policy and regulatory issues; drafting laws, delegated legislation, policies, regulatory instruments and reform/restructuring strategies.
-Transactions: Mergers & Acquisitions, investments, commercial arrangements and financing.
-Evolving frameworks, regulatory regime & policies to facilitate Public-Private-Partnerships and functioning of regulated utilities.
-Anchoring as counsel complex, precedent-setting commercial and regulatory matters before the Supreme Court, High Courts, Appellate Tribunals, Regulators (in Competition, Power, Hydrocarbons, Airports) and Arbitral Tribunals (particularly construction and project implementation disputes).
He has structured and conducted capacity building programs for Competition Commission of India; Ministry of Finance (for PPP); Electricity Regulatory Commissions in SAFIR; visiting faculty for Executive Education programs for National Law School of India University (Bangalore), IIM – Bangalore and SAFIR.For the past 15 years he has been a member of the National Infrastructure Council and Energy Committee of Confederation of Indian Industry. He serves on the Management Governing Council of CUTS Institute for Regulation & Competition (CIRC). Amit is a regular speaker/faculty at International & National workshops and Programs on issues of Policy, Law, Regulation, Project Finance, reforms and private participation in Infrastructure and has published position papers and articles in established international and domestic journals.
Memberships:
-Supreme Court Bar Association-Delhi High Court Bar Association-International Bar Association-American Bar Association-Bar Council of Delhi-Vice President-Energy Bar Recent Publications:
-Unpublished Chapter titled “Indian Regulatory State” in a forthcoming book being published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc in 2019.
-Infrastructure Finance & Emerging Jurisprudence published in IDFC Law Reporter (9th Edition – 2017).
-Choice between the devil and the deep sea: Sanctity of contract or regulatory independence-published in ET Energy World on November 07, 2017.
– Economic Governance and the Wheels of Justice-published in annual magazine of the Indian Advocate, 2015.
– Challenges of Financing Infrastructure in India-presented at India Policy Forum’s conference, July 2015
-Plugging the Gaps: Need to revisit the Electricity Act, 2003-published in Power Line Magazine, December 2014.
-Grid Collapse of July 2012: Challenges of an Evolving Indian National Grid–published in the IBA Journal of Energy & National Resources Law, Vol. 31, No.1, 2013.
-Unshackling the market potential of the Power Sector: India–A Case Study, published in Private Equity Journal for India (Energy Sector), April 2007.

Augustine Peter is an Economist and thought leader having served in the Indian Economic Service (IES) since 1982. He specialises in Investment, Trade and Competition policies. He was Member, Competition Commission of India during April, 2014 to January, 2019.He served as Director General (Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas), Economic Adviser (Department of Commerce), Economic Adviser (Competition Commission of India), Director (Trade Policy Division, Department of Commerce) and Head (Transport Unit) Project Appraisal and Management Division, Erstwhile Planning Commission of India. Mr. Peter started his career as a Banker, working with the State Bank of India and the Indian Bank. He was Indian Delegate at the UNIDO Investment Promotion Service in Paris, representing the India Investment Centre. He was Lead Consultant with the Government of Nepal in 2002 and prepared draft Industrial and Investment Policies for that country. He has a number of papers in reputed Indian and international Journals and Books.

Kirit S. Parikh is Emeritus Professor (on retirement as Director) and Founder Director of Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, India. He has also served as Senior Economic Advisor to United Nations Development Programme. He has been a member of the Economic Advisory Council (EAC) for multiple Prime Ministers of India: Rajiv Gandhi, V.P.Singh, Chandra Shekhar, P.V. Narasimha Rao and Atal Bihari Vajpayee. He completed his B.E. in Civil Engineering from Gujarat University. He did his M.Tech. (Structures) from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He has a D.Sc. in civil engineering and a master’s degree in economics from MIT, USA. He is also a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India. He has been the editor of “India Development Reports” which provide a non-governmental assessment of India’s development and policy options. Apart from these, he has been a member of numerous other boards of directors.He has also authored and co-authored more than 15 books in the areas of planning, water resource management, appropriate technology for housing, optimum requirement for fertilizers, energy systems, national and international food policies, trade policies, general equilibrium modeling and natural resources accounting. He has also published numerous articles.The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan, in 2009, for his contributions to public affairs.