Khaitan & Co has advised Orient Cement on loan facilities worth US$200m from a syndicate of lenders led by State Bank of India.
The loan is to finance the development of a 3Mta greenfield integrated cement plant along with a 45MW captive power plant at Gulbarga, Karnataka.
Partner Shishir Mehta and associate partner Kumar Saurabh Singh acted as legal advisers to Orient Cement.

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