Ian Gaitta Bio

Ian Gaitta is a Partner at ALN Kenya | Anjarwalla & Khanna and a member of the firm’s projects and infrastructure practice group. Ian’s practice involves advising project developers, sponsors and investors on structuring and execution of infrastructure projects and infrastructure-related investment and divestment transactions across various sectors including power generation, roads, ports, water supply, waste management, oil and gas, and telecoms infrastructure projects. Ian is also part of the team leading the firm’s advocacy and advisory efforts in the emerging climate change and sustainability space. He has assisted clients on regulatory advisory work, procurement advisory, negotiation of concession agreements and offtake agreements and other forms of Public Private Partnership (PPP) arrangements and procurement contracts, structuring and negotiating government support arrangements such as letters of support and host government agreements/implementation agreements, and ancillary political risk support mechanisms such as MIGA Political Risk Insurance instruments and AfDB partial risk guarantees, advising on EPC and other supply and construction contracts, and in the structuring and negotiation of equity and debt investment arrangements for project companies. He has also advised on various M&A transactions relating to infrastructure project companies and provided borrower-side advice to sponsors and project companies on various project finance transactions. In connection with his work on renewable energy projects as well as other infrastructure projects, Ian has assisted developers in structuring arrangements for the commercialization of carbon offsets and credits and other environmental attributes deriving from these projects. He has also conducted training seminars on PPPs and energy and infrastructure projects for international developers, financiers and public sector officials in the region, and has contributed to PPP and project finance publications and trainings by the African Legal Support Facility, a capacity building institution hosted by the African Development Bank. He has also contributed to infrastructure PPP trainings by the Trade and Development Bank (TDB) and USAID. Ian is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya.