MUMBAI, Dec. 19 -- A private company owned by billionaire Gautam Adani and his family has been entrusted to oversee the infrastructure projects of all listed firms of the Adani Group as part of the tycoon's plans to capture margins that would otherwise have gone to external parties. Adani Infra (India) Ltd, the private company, is also looking to leverage its orderbook of over Rs.50,000 crore to raise over $1 billion via private placement of dollar-denominated bonds, an executive directly aware of the plans said on condition of anonymity as the discussions are private. The funds raised will be forwarded as promoter loans or equity contributions to Adani Group companies for their capex requirements. The change in the Adani Group's strategy comes as it enters a phase of intense capital expenditure. The group's capex surged to Rs.1.26 trillion in FY25, up from about Rs.71,000 crore in the previous year. For FY26, the plan is to spend Rs.1.5 trillion. It spent Rs.67,870 crore in the first six months of the year, as per its latest investor presentation. With Adani Infra handling all of the group's project management consultant (PMC) work, the Adani Group can consolidate a sizable operation that was until now dispersed across numerous companies. Adani Infra's orderbook is comparable to that of Kalpataru Projects International Ltd (Rs.64,682 crore) and Afcons Infrastructure Ltd (Rs.32,681 crore). "They are looking to leverage this orderbook and raise more than $1 billion through private placement of bonds," the executive said. In its October note, Care Ratings noted that Adani Infra plans to raise "sizeable external commercial borrowings (ECBs)," which will be used for onward lending as promoter contribution or quasi-equity to the Adani group companies for capex. The Adani Group did not respond to Mint's queries emailed on Wednesday on the appointment of Adani Infra as its exclusive PMC partner or its plans to raise debt. Adani Infra is a subsidiary of Adani Properties Pvt Ltd (APPL), which is in turn held by the S.B. Adani Family Trust, a key promoter entity of the Adani Group. The company was set up in 2010 and mainly undertook engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) work for the group's thermal power and renewable energy projects. In FY25, Adani Infra was designated as the PMC for all the group's infrastructure projects spanning ports, manufacturing plants, roads, power transmission, data centres and renewable energy. It will act as the single point of oversight for all of the group's infrastructure projects and engage third-party vendors to handle construction and other technical work as required. Earlier, this work was handled by each listed company's individual project management team. Adani Infra will increasingly handle much of the engineering and construction work itself, thus capturing margins that would otherwise go to third-party EPC vendors. To bolster its infrastructure capabilities, Adani Infra acquired a 34.41% stake in Ahmedabad-based PSP Projects Ltd for about Rs.700 crore earlier this year. "With the scale of their projects, it made sense for them to bring project management in-house. They also wanted to capture the margins within the group," the executive said. The company made a profit of Rs.3,669 crore in FY25, as per a October 13 note from Care Ratings, earnings that remained within the group instead of going to external vendors....