Atharva Deshpande

atharva.deshpande@lw.com

+44.20.7710.5886

Profile

Atharva Deshpande is an associate in the London office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the Infrastructure Finance team, part of the Banking & Private Credit Practice.

Atharva advises infrastructure funds, institutional investors, and financial institutions on a broad range of infrastructure finance matters.

Prior to joining Latham in 2026, Atharva trained at a magic circle law firm, where he also completed a secondment at Airbus.

Experience

Atharva’s experience includes advising:

Italo on its financing in support of its entry into the German high-speed rail market
The lenders on the financing for the sale of Tosca, a leading global provider of reusable asset pooling and logistics solutions for the food supply chain, by Apax Partners LLP (Apax) to Goldman Sachs Alternatives
Westconnect GmbH, a German fibre joint venture between Igneo Infrastructure Partners and Westenergie AG, on its €1.2 billion debt raise
Italo on its platform refinancing
Thyssengas on its €1.4 billion long-term financing
The lender group on a US$2 billion amortizing pre-export finance facility*
A financial institution on the financing of the acquisition of an existing interest in a large-scale wind farm*
The sponsor on the acquisition of shareholding interests in multiple offshore transmission owners*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham