Abhishek Dafria

- Heading ICRA's Structured Finance team of 20+ professionals who are responsible for rating assignments for securitisation transactions (PTC and DA), complex structured debt instruments and recovery ratings for security receipts issued by ARCs
- Ensuring high rating accuracy and timely rating actions while providing critical insights to investors to help them make informed decisions about investments
- Establishing and maintaining relationships with 100+ issuers, investors, and other… Show more

- Heading ICRA's Structured Finance team of 20+ professionals who are responsible for rating assignments for securitisation transactions (PTC and DA), complex structured debt instruments and recovery ratings for security receipts issued by ARCs
- Ensuring high rating accuracy and timely rating actions while providing critical insights to investors to help them make informed decisions about investments
- Establishing and maintaining relationships with 100+ issuers, investors, and other stakeholders in the structured finance industry
- Driving ICRA’s positioning as a thought leader in the Structured Finance industry
- Responsible for developing and reviewing ICRA's rating methodology for complex Structured Finance instruments such as Covered Bonds, AIFs, Pooled Loan Issuances, Collateralised Debt Obligations etc other than plain vanilla transactions
- Representing ICRA at industry conferences and events as a guest speaker / panelist Show less

- Member of ICRA’s Rating Committee
- Appointed Co-Head, Corporate Ratings, with focus on Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Ports and Fertiliser sectors
- Diversified experience across sectors which also includes Power, Sugar, Paper, Real Estate and Roads sectors
- Authored research reports and thematic notes on Oil & Gas industry
- Solely responsible for ICRA’s publications on updates pertaining to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code

- Member of ICRA’s Rating Committee responsible for arriving at the rating decision for companies across various sectors
- Appointed as 'team leader' for a team of six members and responsible for ensuring high standards of productivity, quality and timeliness from the team
- Involved in the rating assignments for companies in the Power and Sugar sectors for over eight years; Worked on thermal-based and renewable energy-based power companies, both operational and in project stage
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- Member of ICRA’s Rating Committee responsible for arriving at the rating decision for companies across various sectors
- Appointed as 'team leader' for a team of six members and responsible for ensuring high standards of productivity, quality and timeliness from the team
- Involved in the rating assignments for companies in the Power and Sugar sectors for over eight years; Worked on thermal-based and renewable energy-based power companies, both operational and in project stage
- Co-authored the ICRA half-yearly research report on the Indian Solar Sector which focuses on key growth drivers for the sector, regulatory policies at Central and State Government levels, competitiveness of solar power tariff against conventional sources of power, expected returns for the investors, and challenges being faced by the sector
- Worked on assignments in the Oil & Gas sector (upstream and downstream) for four years
- Responsible for rating assignments for companies in the real estate and road sectors Show less