In Mumbai, CXOs, and senior executives will meet in a dynamic and informal setting to engage, collaborate, and build relationships within the investor and developer community. Senior leaders will discuss deal flow, match product to capital across logistics and warehousing asset classes, navigate the current challenges, and highlight the emerging trends in an intimate, closed-door environment.
As GRI Club’s main goal is to develop meaningful relationships, the venue will feature spaces exclusively for private discussion, and our staff will facilitate one-to-one meetings with potential business partners. GRI Logistics and Warehousing India 2023 will offer a platform for you to find the right partners , build valuable relationships, and keep the conversation going.
What will drive the Indian real estate sector in the coming years? What is the way forward for this asset class? How can logistics costs be reduced to single digit figures? What is the sweet spot for investors? Deliberate and debate on this and many more issues.
Be part of the most important Logistics & Warehousing event in India and connect with industry leaders in a high-level networking environment.
Format
Engage in collaborative deal flow discussions, consider the latest industry trends, and share insights into the current challenges facing the sector in an exclusive and candid format. GRI Logistics and Warehousing India 2023 provides the perfect platform for you to find the right partners, build valuable relationships, and keep the conversation going long after the event.
Audience
Leading developers, operators, financial corporations, investment funds, lending institutions, think-thanks, and cutting-edge tech companies will gather to discuss the changing landscape of logistics and warehousing in India, including new policy framework, re-engineering, digitization, multi-modal transportation, and sophisticated warehousing.
Unique Format
Discussion format that enables you to interact and engage
Partner | Investment Funds, Private Equity, Corporate and Commercial
Khaitan & Co - India
Siddharth Shah
Partner | Investment Funds, Private Equity, Corporate and CommercialKhaitan & Co - India
India
Siddharth is a senior partner with Khaitan & Co in its Mumbai office and leads the funds practice for the firm. He has over 20 years of professional experience in advising clients in the matters relating to fund formations, setting up of investment platforms, structuring of private equity investments and other corporate transactional matters dealing with JVs and M&As. He acts as fund counsel to domestic and offshore funds across asset classes ranging from angel, venture capital, private equity, real estate, credit, distress asset, public market and hedge funds, REITs, INVITs etc. He advises them on the legal, regulatory and tax matters.
Khaitan & Co is one of India's oldest and recognised full service law firms.
Built on foundations of integrity, simplicity, dedication and professionalism, the Firm has expanded its presence in India from Kolkata (1911) to New Delhi (1970) to Bangalore (1994) to Mumbai (2001) to Chennai (2021) and in Singapore (2021). The Firm takes pride in its steady growth and celebrated its centenary year in 2011 (11 November 2011).
The Firm has a strength of more than 850+ fee earners including 220 partners and directors in its offices. In addition to the fee-earners, Khaitan & Co and has over 1000 employees working for it.
Welcome Note by Mr. Siddharth Shah, Khaitan & Co
Siddharth is a senior partner with Khaitan & Co in its Mumbai office and leads the funds practice for the firm. He has over 20 years of professional experience in advising clients in the matters relating to fund formations, setting up of investment platforms, structuring of private equity investments and other corporate transactional matters dealing with JVs and M&As. He acts as fund counsel to domestic and offshore funds across asset classes ranging from angel, venture capital, private equity, real estate, credit, distress asset, public market and hedge funds, REITs, INVITs etc. He advises them on the legal, regulatory and tax matters.
Welspun One logistics Parks (WOLP) is an industrial real estate platform, that seeks to provide an integrated investment, asset, and development management solution focused on the logistics & warehousing sector in India.
Opening Provocateur, Mr. Anshul Singhal, Welspun One
Anshul has over 15 years of leadership experience in the infrastructure and real estate sector with a track record of establishing 5 new businesses from the ground up. He has held the CEO and Director positions for Blackstone, Warburg Pincus, and Brookfield investee companies.
In 2019, Anshul founded One Industrial Spaces - an integrated fund, development, and asset management organization. His entrepreneurial venture was soon provided backing by the USD 2.7 billion Welspun Group; and post acquiring a majority stake in this business, it went on to be rebranded as Welspun One Logistics Parks.
26th April | 10:10 - 11:15 | Opening Master Session
Investment Strategies
Capital flows in a growth path or more potential to be unlocked?
Growth Trajectory - Same old investment models or new potential capital allocations ahead?
Value and Yields - How to differentiate in a thriving market and where to find the best opportunities?
JVs - Players well positioned to search and find equity partners, or missing expertise?
Partner | Corporate & Commercial Practice GroupKhaitan & Co - India
India
Deepak Jodhani is a Partner in the Corporate and Commercial Practice Group of Khaitan & Co (Mumbai office). Deepak has advised several clients on private equity investments, platform deals, strategic acquisitions, joint ventures, promoter exits (including bid situations), corporate restructurings (mergers, demergers), etc. He has tremendous experience in private equity in real estate, having acted for both investors and developers, across various real estate asset classes including commercial, industrial, retail, residential, etc. He is also a regular speaker at various conferences and public forums.
Deepak has been recognised by IFLR 1000 as the “Notable Practitioner” for Private Equity and M&A consecutively in 2019 and 2020 rankings.
Shobhit Agarwal, MD & CEO of ANAROCK Capital Advisors, is a visionary entrepreneur and one of the prominent faces in the Indian real estate market. With a profound experience of over 22 years in real estate investments, he has been instrumental in leveraging Indian RE to the global Capital Market platform. At ANAROCK Capital, he steers the strategic direction for RE Investment Banking Advisory through various investment verticals to serve the best interest of his clients. His in-depth knowledge coupled with his long-standing relationships with developers & capital providers has resulted in multi-billion dollar deals. In his past role, he had a successful 17-year stint at JLL India where he led the Capital Markets division with aplomb.
Infrastructure Consultant and Logistics expertAsian Development Bank
India
Atul is a seasoned Infrastructure professional with vast experience of working in Industrial corridors, transportation and multimodal logistics with focus on project design, feasibility in infrastructure development, infrastructure financing, regulatory, policy and governance issues. Atul has policy, finance and economics degree from NUS Singapore, JNU, Delhi and St. Xaviers Kolkata. In his current role he is working with the several line ministries and state governments on Logistics sector development, industrial corridor and park development including integration in GVCs. His past roles include Economist (Consultant) for IFC in Singapore, Public Finance Economist for PwC South Asia and J. Economist for Willis Towers Watson.
Alok Jain is a Principal in the Real Estate Group. Since joining Blackstone, Alok has been involved in evaluating real estate investments in several property types. Before joining Blackstone in 2011, Alok worked as a Hardware Engineer with Nvidia Graphics and was involved in designing and verifying complex computer chips. Alok received Bachelors of Engineering (Hons.) from BITS-Pilani where he was awarded the BITS-Merit and BITS-Alumni scholarships. He completed his MBA in Finance from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore
Ritesh has been a financier, advisor and entrepreneur over the course of his real estate career, and has been associated with a number of property developments across India. He moved to Investcorp in early 2019 as a result of its acquisition of IDFC Alternatives’ Real Estate platform, and heads the real estate funds management business for India. Prior to Investcorp, Ritesh worked as a Partner with IDFC Alternatives and previously as an MD at real estate fund manager Saffron Advisors. He has been a past member of the CII National Committee on Real Estate. He is also a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, United Kingdom (RICS).
Managing Director - Commercial Leasing and AdvisoryANAROCK Property Consultants Pvt. Ltd.
India
Peush is an industry veteran with over 23 years of experience in global real estate.
As one of the senior-most leaders in the real estate industry; has an extensive expertise across office, retail, industrial, warehousing, Investments and other verticals of Corporate Real Estate.
An expert with domestic and multinational owners, investors, and occupiers across asset classes and have helped drive exceptional results for many top corporates across India, Asia and Europe.
Shashank Jain
Leader- Real Estate DealsPwC
India
Shashank is a Transaction Services (TS) Partner, and focused on Real Estate Sector for PwC India, based out of Mumbai, India. He has over 15 years of professional experience in financial due diligence (both buy side and vendor assistance), valuations and preparation and review of financial projections/business plans, etc. He was been involved in significant number of cross border transactions, both outbound (especially in the US and Europe) and inbound investments in India on behalf of both strategic and financial investors. He has demonstrated an in depth understanding of the keys to successfully serve the sophisticated requirements of financial and strategic buyers. Shashank has been working in the Real Sector for almost over a decade.
Aditya Sikri
PresidentIndoSpace
India
Aditya has over 27 years of work experience of which 20 years is in the real estate sector in India and internationally. He was the CEO of the retail & commercial divisions at Mantri Developers where he oversaw assets in excess of 27 million square feet. Prior to Mantri Developers, he has worked with various marquee organizations like The Landmark Group, Virtuous Retail Services & Spice Corp where he managed operations and projects.
Rahul Pandit is the CEO of Blackstone’s India logistics platform, Horizon Industrial Parks.
Rahul was previously the founding MD & CEO of Hamstede Living, a Warburg Pincus JV for
rental housing. He was earlier the MD & CEO of TATA Group’s Ginger hotels. Prior to that he
was a founding team member, President & ED of Lemon Tree Hotels.
Rahul is a Member of the CII National Committee on Tourism and a Member of the Rental
Housing Association of India. A former member of the Indian Karate Team, he also serves as
an Independent Director on the Board of Ixigo, a travel e-commerce company.
Kapil Gupta is the Chief Economist at Nuvama Institutional Equities where he is responsible for macroeconomic research on Indian and global economy. He has 17 years of experience and his commentary is widely followed by the institutional investors across India, US, Europe and Asia. He has been with company since 2010. Prior to that, he was economist with ICICI Bank. Kapil has also worked as a Research Fellow at Institute for Indian Economic Studies (IES), Waseda University, Tokyo. Kapil has been ranked as the Best Economist Asiamoney Investors Poll 2022. Kapil is a graduate in Engineering from Panjab University, India and has completed Masters in International Economics from University of California, San Diego, US.
Nuvama Asset Management offers client aligned alternative
investment solutions centred on three primary business verticals: private markets, listed markets and real assets (soon to be Launched) in the form of portfolio management services and alternative investment funds. NAM manages an AuM of ~5,800 Cr. across ~6000+ clients with a primary focus on Alternatives. Our flagship offering under the Private Markets vertical, the Nuvama Crossover Opportunities Series of funds, is focused on the late-stage private equity space pioneered by this strategy in India in Nov’17. A venture debt has also been launched under the same vertical.
Nuvama asset management carries the legacy of a reputed global name – PAG & the India expert: Edelweiss. PAG is a Hong Kong based asset manager with a ~$50 bn AUM and a focus on Private equity, real estate and hedge funds. PAG owns 56% stake & Edelweiss owns 14% stake in Nuvama Group as on Aug’23.
Key Economic Indicators
How is India ready for the new economic phase?
Kapil Gupta is the Chief Economist at Nuvama Institutional Equities where he is responsible for macroeconomic research on Indian and global economy. He has 17 years of experience and his commentary is widely followed by the institutional investors across India, US, Europe and Asia. He has been with company since 2010. Prior to that, he was economist with ICICI Bank. Kapil has also worked as a Research Fellow at Institute for Indian Economic Studies (IES), Waseda University, Tokyo. Kapil has been ranked as the Best Economist Asiamoney Investors Poll 2022. Kapil is a graduate in Engineering from Panjab University, India and has completed Masters in International Economics from University of California, San Diego, US.
26th April | 14:30 - 15:30
Last Mile Investments
Can players transform urban dynamics despite existing constraints?
Land Deals - Is availability improved or still a hindrance with high acquisition costs and lack of infrastructure?
Location Pricing Strategies - What are the best locations for strategic last-mile urban logistics facilities and how is pricing across traditional and non-traditional locations?
Market Maturity - Is the asset class mature enough?
Driving Efficiency - How to find the right partners and invest in resilient and reliable technology solutions in the future?
Developer, Investor and Operator Partnership - What's the success receipt for this kind of asset?
Gaurav Karnik is Partner with Ernst & Young’s tax practice in India and is the National Leader for Real Estate for EY India. He is a Bachelor in Economics (Honours) and a Chartered Accountant. Gaurav has more than 20 years of experience in the field of international, transaction tax and regulatory issues. Advised several US, UK, Singapore based real estate and infrastructure focused private equity funds in structuring their India centric real estate and infrastructure funds and their specific investments in Indian companies.
Niraj is a real estate investment professional with over 18 years of diversified experience in financial services,of which last 15 years was in the real estate space.Previously,Niraj joined IDFC Alternatives in 2016 and prior to that he was at Shapoorji Pallonji Investment Advisors,part of one of the largest real estate development groups in India.He has successfully executed multiple investments in private equity and mezzanine funding covering the entire deal life cycle (origination,execution & asset management activities). He played a key role in investments of US $500 million in various real estate asset classes across pan-India.Niraj has completed Chartered Financial Analyst program (CFA Institute, USA) and Chartered Accountancy degree
CEO - Hiranandani Group, Real Estate & Infrastructure BusinessHiranandani Group
India
As the CEO - Hiranandani Group Real Estate & Infrastructure Business, he drives the Business Strategy & Re-engineering, Operations,Investments/Divestments & M & A. across business verticals of Real estate, Infrastructure/Utilities, Industrial & Logistics parks. He is also associated with Pegasus Fininvest Advisory Pvt. Ltd. Prior to Hiranandani Group, He was the Group director & CEO of a large entity operating in the Hospitality and Real estate sector. He was also the Group CFO of “Future Capital Holdings Ltd.” He was the CFO for “Britannia Industries Ltd.”. He has had a long stint of 7 years with “Coca-Cola India” as Vice-President Finance and as a board member at the bottling company “Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Ltd.
Real Estate private equity investments specialist with 15 years of experience working for world's leading fund managers, primarily in logistics/industrial, data centers and commercial office space in India/South Asia.
Deployed $500Mn+ across development sites, core assets and joint ventures, with end-to-end execution including origination, negotiations, structuring, documentation and raising debt.
Excel at building teams, rigorous underwriting, risk management and understanding of emerging market trends.
MBA (Finance), MRICS - Charter in Property Valuations. Alumnus of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Interested in alternative investments, seed investor in consumption driven ventures.
Mr. Bakir Gandhi is duly recognized for his path-breaking, visionary and innovative contributions through his pioneering role as a real estate developer and corporate leader. Bakir seeks growth by investing in a variety of systematically identified business, making it a well-diversified conglomerate with interests in many different projects such as Crystal Mall (India’s 17 th Successfully operational Mall), Crystal City (Integrated Modern Township), Townships, Hospitality etc. Bakir is also developing Industrial & Logistic parks across India’s major city through its venture “Crystal Indus & Logistic Park”. Bakir has established value driven partnerships with global players like “Indospace” which has resulted in FDI.
Ashish heads Investments and Leasing for LOGOS Property India and focused on Acquisitions across key cities in India, based out of Mumbai, India. He has over 25 years of professional experience in Business Consulting and Core Real Estate Development and Investments. He has been involved in significant number of Leasing and Investment transactions and has experience of building a large development company. Prior to LOGOS he has worked with Commercial Developers in Mumbai, KPMG UK/India and Arthur Andersen UK/India.
Siddharth is a senior partner with Khaitan & Co in its Mumbai office and leads the funds practice for the firm. He has over 20 years of professional experience in advising clients in the matters relating to fund formations, setting up of investment platforms, structuring of private equity investments and other corporate transactional matters dealing with JVs and M&As. He acts as fund counsel to domestic and offshore funds across asset classes ranging from angel, venture capital, private equity, real estate, credit, distress asset, public market and hedge funds, REITs, INVITs etc. He advises them on the legal, regulatory and tax matters.
10:10am - 11:15am
Investment Strategies
Capital flows in a growth path or more potential to be unlocked?
Growth Trajectory - Same old investment models or new potential capital allocations ahead?
Value and Yields - How to differentiate in a thriving market and where to find the best opportunities?
JVs - Players well positioned to search and find equity partners, or missing expertise?
10:10am - 10:15am
Opening Provocateur, Mr. Anshul Singhal, Welspun One
Anshul has over 15 years of leadership experience in the infrastructure and real estate sector with a track record of establishing 5 new businesses from the ground up. He has held the CEO and Director positions for Blackstone, Warburg Pincus, and Brookfield investee companies.
In 2019, Anshul founded One Industrial Spaces - an integrated fund, development, and asset management organization. His entrepreneurial venture was soon provided backing by the USD 2.7 billion Welspun Group; and post acquiring a majority stake in this business, it went on to be rebranded as Welspun One Logistics Parks.
11:50am - 12:50pm
Future Occupier Demands
More appetite for high-quality and tech-driven assets or location is still king?
New Developments - New organization of supply or lack of players investing?
New Chains - Catching the attention of Institutional Funds and 3PLs or players not ready yet?
Greenfield Developments - How is the balance of investments when looking at gross yields and break-even points?
New Initiatives - Is the Government framing new policies for greener cold chains and what learnings come from the rest of the world?
02:00pm - 02:30pm
Key Economic Indicators
How is India ready for the new economic phase?
Kapil Gupta is the Chief Economist at Nuvama Institutional Equities where he is responsible for macroeconomic research on Indian and global economy. He has 17 years of experience and his commentary is widely followed by the institutional investors across India, US, Europe and Asia. He has been with company since 2010. Prior to that, he was economist with ICICI Bank. Kapil has also worked as a Research Fellow at Institute for Indian Economic Studies (IES), Waseda University, Tokyo. Kapil has been ranked as the Best Economist Asiamoney Investors Poll 2022. Kapil is a graduate in Engineering from Panjab University, India and has completed Masters in International Economics from University of California, San Diego, US.
02:30pm - 03:30pm
Last Mile Investments
Can players transform urban dynamics despite existing constraints?
Land Deals - Is availability improved or still a hindrance with high acquisition costs and lack of infrastructure?
Location Pricing Strategies - What are the best locations for strategic last-mile urban logistics facilities and how is pricing across traditional and non-traditional locations?
Market Maturity - Is the asset class mature enough?
Driving Efficiency - How to find the right partners and invest in resilient and reliable technology solutions in the future?
Developer, Investor and Operator Partnership - What's the success receipt for this kind of asset?
04:00pm - 05:00pm
The Leasing Game
How are investors, owners and occupiers aligned on their needs?
Lease Restructuring - What are the best models when it comes to BTS, ready-to-move, and industrial leases?
Rents & Vacancy - What can we expect from them and where are they going to settle?
Location x Innovation - What's driving investments towards better quality spaces?
Market Penetration - Will investments in tier 2 locations be made or best yields still in tier 1 cities?
04:45pm - 05:45pm
The modern-day Warehouses
World-class innovations in place or more potential to be achieved?
Cutting-edge Technological Solutions - What are the main investments when it comes to automation, robotics, and digitalization?
New Business Plans - How to thrive in a fast-changing market?
Complex Deals - How to make the most of new investment models and solutions when it comes to new demand and supply drivers?
Sustainability - Decarbonization efforts being made and adopted by leading organisations?
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April 26th 09:00 - 10:00 | Registration & Welcome Coffee
10:00 - 10:10 | Opening Video & Welcome by GRI
10:00 - 10:10 | Welcome Note by Mr. Siddharth Shah, Khaitan & Co
10:10 - 10:17 | Opening Provocateur, Mr. Anshul Singhal, Welspun One
10:17 - 11:17 | Opening Master Session 11:17 - 11:50 | Networking Coffee Break & GRI Matchmaking
11:50 - 12:50 | Master Discussion 12:50 - 14:00 | Networking Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 | Presentation on Global Macro-Economic Trends & Impact on Indian Economy
14:30 - 15:30 | Master Discussion 15:30 - 16:00 | Networking Coffee Break & GRI Matchmaking
16:00 - 17:00 | Master Discussion 17:00 - 18:00 | Closing Drinks & Networking Cocktails
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Welspun One logistics Parks (WOLP) is an industrial real estate platform, that seeks to provide an integrated investment, asset, and development management solution focused on the logistics & warehousing sector in India.
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Sri Aditya Homes is into building upper crest residences and commercial spaces in premium localities in Hyderabad. For over 26 years, we came to symbolize contemporary designs, integrated lifestyles, unmatched quality and a tribute to the fine art of living. We are professional to the core with a keen eye to detail and an unmatched finish. We connect with our clients on a personal note by being accommodative in converting their dream homes to reality.
