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Neeraj Seth
Managing Director, Head of Asian Credit, BLACKROCK
Neeraj Seth
Managing Director, Head of Asian Credit, BLACKROCK
Neeraj Seth, Managing Director, is the Head of Asian Credit and has been in his current role since 2009. He is the portfolio manager for the Asian Tiger Bond Fund and Asia Pacific private credit fund. He leads the strategy for Asian Fundamental Credit and is responsible for providing oversight of the investment process, performance, and the team's infrastructure as well as determining the strategic direction and growth initiatives of the platform. He has been responsible for building the Asian fundamental credit business since 2009.
Prior to joining BlackRock in 2009, Mr. Seth was a Senior Vice President focusing on the Asia Pacific market for R3 Capital Partners. He previously held a similar role with the Global Principal Strategies team at Lehman Brothers. Previously, he was an Associate Partner with McKinsey & Company where he was in the leadership group for the Technology & Telecom practice in Southeast Asia.
Mr. Seth earned a BE degree in mechanical engineering from Delhi University and an MBA degree in finance from the Indiana University of Kelley School of Business.
Amit Kansal
Chief Investment Officer, Aditya Birla Stressed Asset AMC Pvt. Ltd.
Amit Kansal
Chief Investment Officer, Aditya Birla Stressed Asset AMC Pvt. Ltd.
Mr. Amit Kansal is the Chief Investment Officer of Aditya Birla Stressed Asset AMC Pvt Ltd which runs a Category II AIF focusing on special situations and distress opportunities. At Aditya Birla, he has been involved in some of the most marquee transactions including the largest OTS of its kind for a 1350 MW Thermal Power plant. With a total experience of more than 18 years, he has now been with the Aditya Birla Group for more than a decade and spearheaded the group’s entry into this business.
Prior to this role, he as one of the founding members of team, led the Project & Structured Finance vertical for North & East for Aditya Birla Finance and set up an immensely successful franchise in that business. His role spanned project linked lending, structured debt and corporate finance solutions to large and mid-market corporate houses. He has covered infrastructure, core, hospitality and real estate sectors extensively apart from manufacturing and select sunrise sectors. Previously, he has worked at Srei Infrastructure, ICICI Bank and Ernst & Young.
He is a commerce graduate from Shri Ram College of Commerce and a Rank Holder Chartered Account.
Rahul Chawla
Co Head, Investment Banking Coverage, Deutsche Bank
Rahul Chawla
Co Head, Investment Banking Coverage, Deutsche Bank
Rahul Chawla is a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank, Head - Global Credit Trading India & CoHead - Investment Bank Coverage India. He is in charge of all the Financing business in India.
Rahul Chawla joined Deutsche Bank in July 2014 from Credit Suisse where he was is a Managing Director of Credit Suisse, Investment Banking Division and Head of Global Markets Solutions Group, based in Mumbai. He was in charge of all the Financing business in India including Capital Markets (ECM, DCM) product origination execution and delivery, Structured Lending and Equity Linked Derivatives business. Prior to that, Rahul Chawla worked with GE Capital Services as Head of Structured Finance, S.E.Asia for 2 years.
Across CS and DB, Rahul Chawla has closed several trades with a total value upwards of $10 BN of funding raised spread across Real Estate, Infrastructure, Construction, Renewable Energy, Retail, Commodities etc.
Rahul Chawla holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.
Raman Aggarwal
Director, Finance Industry Development Council
Raman Aggarwal
Director, Finance Industry Development Council
Raman Aggarwal is the Director of Finance Industry Development Council (FIDC) – A Representative body of Assets and Loan Financing Non-Banking Finance Companies. He is currently Consultant to The World Bank, Consultant to Nomura Research Institute Consulting & Solutions India P Ltd., Area Head – NBFCs at Council for International Economic Understanding (CIEU) and Advisor, Shriram Transport Finance Ltd., which is one of the leading NBFCs. He is also an Independent Director on the board of Pasialo Digital Ltd., which is a leading NBFC in North India engaged in financing MSMEs on a digital platform. He has more than 29 years of working experience in the NBFC sector.
He has been actively representing the NBFC sector, being a member of Advisory Groups to Ministry of Finance & RBI, Core Group setup by Ministry of Corporate Affairs, and Special Task Force at FICCI.. He was the signatory to the Engagement Letters signed by World Bank Group with FIDC. He is the Chairman, Working Group on NBFCs at Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).
He was awarded the “Best NBFC Exemplary Leader” Award at the ET NOW BFSI Awards and “100 Top Most Influential BFSI Leaders” award at the World BFSI Congress in 2018 & 2019. He has addressed major events and seminars, like Global Convention on Corporate Governance and Sustainability at London, IFC’s Financial Infrastructure Workshop for Da Afghanistan Bank, EuroFinance India, The Economic Times Summit on Financial Inclusion, National Summit on NBFCs and World Auto Congress organized by ASSOCHAM. He has been an invitee to the Pre-budget discussion of the Finance Minister with representatives from banking and financial institutions. He is a Guest Faculty at Institute of Chartered Accountants, India (ICAI), International Management Institute (IMI), New Delhi and Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Tiruchirappalli.
Raman is Masters in Urban Planning from School of Planning &Architecture, New Delhi and Bachelor of Civil Engineering from Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala. He has also undertaken a Special Training Programme for the Personnel of Non-Banking Finance Companies at RBI College of Agricultural Banking, Pune.
Manish Nihalani
Chief Operating Officer, Alchemist Asset Reconstruction Company Ltd.
Manish Nihalani
Chief Operating Officer, Alchemist Asset Reconstruction Company Ltd.
Manish Nihalani is the Chief Operating Officer of Alchemist Asset Reconstruction Company Limited and has been associated with the Company since 2016.
He leads strategy for acquisitions and resolution and provides strategic direction and guidance for the entire ARC operation. He has been responsible for distressed portfolio management from acquisition to the resolution. He has been instrumental in business development including asset evaluation and Institutional / banking relationship for the Company. He has driven the growth trajectory of Asset Under Management of the Company from INR 500 crore to INR 2,000 crore.
With a total experience of 21 years, Mr. Nihalani was in the field of banking, distress assets management, restructuring, turnaround of retail portfolio / SME and large corporate, managing institutional relationship, asset acquisition & evaluation, investments & fund raising. He started his career with Aditya Birla Group and Joined ICICI Bank and worked on Asset Resolution and later joined one of the largest PRA of ARCIL in NPA resolution.
Mr. Nihalani is Commerce Graduate and earned a Master degree in Finance.
Dr. Ravi Bapna
Curtis L. Carlson Chair Professor in Business Analytics and Information Systems, Associate Dean for Executive Education, Academic Director, Carlson Analytics Lab, Carlson School of Management, University of
Dr. Ravi Bapna
Curtis L. Carlson Chair Professor in Business Analytics and Information Systems, Associate Dean for Executive Education, Academic Director, Carlson Analytics Lab, Carlson School of Management, University of
Ravi Bapna currently serves as the Curtis L. Carlson Chair in Business Analytics and Information Systems, Associate Dean for Executive Education and the Academic Director of the Carlson Analytics Lab and the Analytics for Good Institute at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. He has also served as Chief Data Scientist at Mississippi River Capital LLC, a Minneapolis based hedge fund. He is one of the foremost exponents of engaged scholarship that involves the full cycle of partnering with companies to conduct top-tier research, impacting practice, and taking the learning back into the classroom via executive teaching, writing teaching cases and running the Carlson Analytics Lab experiential program.
Bapna has been teaching executives at Carlson, NYU, ISB and other leading business schools since 2008. His core topics are digital strategy and transformation, digital and social media marketing, advanced analytics, ML and AI. He started the CIO Academy at the Indian School of Business and has done open and custom executive education in partnership with WU Executive Academy, Vienna, Tsinghua University, and the Indian School of Business. He regularly keynotes corporate leadership events.
Bapna’s career is built on very deep corporate partnerships that have been of mutual benefit to all parties involved. He has been a pioneer of online auctions research. He created and ran Cniper.com, a real-world sniping agent for eBay auctions, to accurately estimate consumer surplus. Bapna was invited to present this at the Federal Trade Commission in addition to a variety of leading universities. Bapna is one of the foremost proponents of the gold-standard method of randomized field experiments in social media, partnering with companies such as OkCupid, Last.fm, and others to develop new knowledge and impact practice. His research in this arena had significant impact in deconstructing how social media can be used to create economic and social value, and has been featured widely in the media (including, FT, NPR, Star Tribune, CBS, USA Today, ABC among other) and invited keynote talks at companies around the world (3M, Google, Facebook, Carlson Wagonlit Travel and Cargill among others). This work not only has had a huge theoretical impact in uncovering important causal mechanisms in important areas such as online dating and peer influence, but has had a huge impact on practice and teaching at the MBA and executive level.
Most recently he has been helping some pioneering ecommerce companies take their referral marketing to the next level. Referral programs are designed to accelerate organic word-of-mouth (WOM) exposure using financial incentives. He uses large scale RCTs to determine how firms can benefit from framing calls-to-action for referral programs in such a way as to move closer to the original intent of organic, intrinsically motivated, WOM marketing, and yet at the same time reap the benefits of using a financial incentive to increase referral rates. The research based approach is now the basis of the ongoing referral marketing program at Collage.com, a major online retailer in the printed products category in the US.
As the academic director of the Carlson Analytics Lab since fall of 2015, he has led close to $2.8 million of analytics consulting that spans descriptive, predictive, causal and prescriptive analytics across 54 companies in 14 industries and all possible functions.
Anil Talreja
, Deloitte Haskins & Sells
Anil Talreja
, Deloitte Haskins & Sells
Anil is a Partner with the Deloitte Tax group. He has over twenty years of experience in the taxation department and has been seconded to the London office of Deloitte where he has obtained international work experience.
Anil has worked with the Deloitte M&A Tax and Global Oil and Gas Tax team whilst on secondment in London. He specialises in matters under the direct tax laws which have been in force in India, including international taxation. He has also been involved in conducting tax due diligence and tax structuring assignments of various clients including listed companies in India and has been providing tax structuring advise to several upstream companies in India with regard to their outbound investments.
Sridhar Ramachandran
Partner, Grant Thornton India
Sridhar Ramachandran
Partner, Grant Thornton India- Assistance in planning and execution of very large investments in India in the Special Economic Zones/ Free Trade Zone Models.
- Assistance in structuring foreign direct investments in various sectors including Special Economic Zones, manufacturing, wholesale and retail trading, e-commerce, financial services, infrastructure, real estate etc. in a tax efficient and regulatory compliant manner.
- Assistance in setting up business entities in India for various businesses in Company, partnership and LLP forms, including in Special Economic Zones (sector specific, free trade zones or multi product/ service units) or domestic units.
- Assistance in setting up offices abroad, making overseas investments and structuring acquisitions
Sridhar has over 24 years post qualification experience in tax and regulatory matters. A significant part of his career was spent in Delhi where he gained expertise in dealing with complex and varied tax and regulatory matters of multinational corporations. He shifted to Chennai in 2006 and prior to joining the Firm, ran a boutique consulting firm which specialized in tax, regulatory and M&A functions.
Sridhar is a tax partner in Grant Thornton LLP where he is responsible for the tax practice of Chennai and Kochi offices. He also responsible for the Transaction Tax practice of the firm for South India. Some of his key experiences include:
Sridhar is a regular speaker at forums across India, including the ICAI, ICSI and various trade/professional bodies where he speaks on foreign direct investment policy, exchange control law, special economic zones and income-tax law. He has contributed to Policy making on the Special Economic Zone laws across state and central government agencies.
He is the author of a book on Exchange Control Law in India published by Bloomsbury.
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Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, founded on a century of legal achievement, is one of India’s leading full service law firms. Our mission is to enable business by providing solutions as trusted advisors through excellence, responsiveness, innovation, and collaboration.
We are one of India’s most well recognised firms, and are known globally for our integrated approach. We are one of India’s most well recognised firms, and are known globally for our integrated approach. Our 520 lawyers including 111 partners provide exceptional services across practice areas which include General
Corporate, Merger & Acquisition, Private Equity, Banking & Finance, Insolvency & Bankruptcy, Competition Law, Dispute Resolution, Projects & Project Finance, Capital Markets, Tax, Intellectual Property and Venture Capital.
We are at the forefront of global and Indian M&A and private equity transactions, cutting edge high risk litigation and advice on strategically important matters across a spectrum of practices and industries for our multi-jurisdictional clients.
We have a pan India presence, with offices in seven cities across India – New Delhi, Mumbai, Gurugram, Bengaluru, Chennai, Ahmedabad and Kolkata.
Our practice areas:
• General Corporate
• Banking and Finance
• Insolvency & Bankruptcy
• Competition Law
• Dispute Resolution
• Projects and Project Finance
• Capital Markets
• Tax
• Intellectual Property
• Venture Capital
Brescon & Allied Partners LLP
MISSION
Help businesses tap their inherent potential to overcome adversities by the application of intellect, creativity, rigour and empathy.
OVERVIEW
Brescon, founded by Nirmal Gangwal, is India’s first and largest independent special situation advisor, with an established track record of over 20 years. Our reputation as an advisor of choice stems from our acumen in offering innovative solutions together with our strong relationship with the leading banks, international investors, private equity funds, special situations funds, and regulatory authorities.
We provide strategic and tactical orientation with solutions across entire business life cycle viz special situation advisory, turnaround advisory, strategic advisory (M&A and recapitalization) and distress advisory.
We are independent and not encumbered by any potential conflicts of interest.
Brescon, with the help of its large pool of experienced professionals with diverse skill sets, has executed transactions over USD 15Bn for more than 100 corporate clients with deal size varying from USD 20Mn to USD 2.5Bn, across a broad range of industry sectors. Brescon’s association with the prominent corporates including but not limited to infrastructure, steel, power transmission and distribution, textiles, real estate and education, as advisors, stems from its extensive experience, commendable track record of creating value for its stakeholders and close to 100% success rate in transactions handled.
Some of the firsts to its credit include:
First case referred in restructuring space – viz., under Corporate Debt Restructuring Forum formed by RBI
First case advised for exit from the CDR forum
First to structure a debt settlement based on rights on future built-up of the project properties
First to structure “Risk Return Matrix” (multiple options to lenders with differential terms) to meet varying perspective of the lenders on risks & returns of the borrower
First to provide advice in the context of early separation plan for over 500 workers on a self-liquidation basis
OUR OFFERING
We offer full service Investment Banking Services, with our core areas being Debt Resolution, Recapitalisation, Divestment Advisory, M & A Advisory, Structured Finance and Corporate Restructuring.
AD FACTOR
Market leader: Adfactors PR is India’s largest PR firm by revenue. The Holmes Report, in its global rankings 2018, ranked us amongst the top ten Asian PR firms and among the top 75 in the world.
Multi-specialist firm: We are a multi-specialist firm. Our principal practice areas are Corporate Reputation, Financial Communications, Issues and Crisis Communications, Public Affairs and Marketing Communications. In most practices and sector verticals, the firm enjoys a market leading position. The key sectors that we serve include Banking & Financial Services, Energy & Natural Resources, Auto & Engineering, Infrastructure & Construction, IT & ITeS, Pharma & Healthcare as well as Travel, Hospitality & Leisure.
Diverse clientele: We work for over 300 retained clients including some of the most reputed Corporations and Financial Institutions, both Indian and multi-national. We also work for number of Government bodies and Public Sector undertakings. Some of our strategic clients include State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, Citibank, Standard Chartered, Tata Group, Godrej Group, Mahindra Group, Larsen & Toubro, CISCO and many more.
Expertise and Experience in Financial Services: Adfactors PR has an unmatched bandwidth of senior consultants with expertise in financial services sector and capital markets. A team of over 15 senior consultants who have previously served as Editors, Bankers, Asset Managers, Financial Analysts and as marketing professionals in the BFSI sector. We work with over 75 Banks and Financial Institutions on a retained basis.
Most awarded firm in India: Adfactors PR is India’s most awarded PR firm for each of the last three years. In 2016 we won every single ‘Agency of the Year’ award for PR firms in India. The firm was recognized as the Holmes Report Asia-Pac Financial Consultancy of the Year in 2013 and 2015. In 2015, we were also recognized as the Global Financial Communications Consultancy of the Year.
Key strengths: Our principal differentiators are domain knowledge, a sound understanding of Indian complexities, acknowledged capability in engaging media and other influencers, and a large bench of senior consultants. The firm is acknowledged for managing issues, crisis and complex media situations.
National program delivery: A truly national platform for delivering integrated communication programs right upto the farthest districts of India. We have a network of offices in 14 key states and resident representatives in all the other State capitals of India.
International capability: We have our offices in Dubai, Singapore and Sri Lanka. We work with partner firms for global campaigns in about 60 markets in the world.
New age competencies: Adfactors PR has sound capability in new age competencies like data analytics, video and rich media solutions, experiential PR & events, digital media monitoring and influencer engagement.
TransUnion CIBIL Limited
We are India’s leading credit information company with one of the largest collections of consumer information.
We aim to be more than just a credit reporting agency. We are a sophisticated, global risk information provider striving to use information for good. For consumers, we provide information and tools for gaining a clear understanding of their credit history and financial reputation, and guarding against the theft of personal information and potential fraud.
For businesses, we provide powerful information solutions, backed by professional service and current, comprehensive data, for making better, more informed decisions.
Our solutions help build credit economies worldwide
TransUnion has been operating internationally for over 30 years in over 30 countries. We connect businesses and consumers through data, technology and analytics, to help build credit economies worldwide. We’re a leader in risk and information solutions within the markets we serve.
Our technology and analytics platform expansion enables rapid and effective transfer of our most advanced global solutions (CreditVision®, IDVisionSM, DecisionEdge® and our newest groundbreaking PramaSM suite) across regions, while offering local solutions to meet the unique needs of our clients. We offer specialized solutions to serve a broad variety of industries, such as financial services, insurance, retail, telco, and government, to help businesses operate, compete and grow within each vertical. Our consumer empowerment solutions continue to expand outside the U.S., currently offering consumer products in India, Hong Kong, South Africa and Canada through direct and indirect channels.
As a global risk information provider, we strive to use Information for GoodSM to help communities everywhere achieve great things. It's our mission to help people around the world access the opportunities that lead to a higher quality of life, by helping organizations optimize their risk-based decisions, and enabling consumers to understand and manage their personal information. Our mindset is global, but every day we act on a local level to ensure we continuously provide the means to improve and strengthen societies all over the world.
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Indium Capital
Indium Capital is an Investment Bank focusing on Fund-Raising, Mergers & Acquisitions and Growth Strategy Advisory. We provide end-to-end services across our focus sectors: Healthcare, Consumer Brands & Technology. Indium has had significant depth of experience in these sectors, with expertise across all segments of Healthcare Delivery (hospitals, medical devices, diagnostics chains and single speciality centers), Consumer Brands (apparel, accessories, foods and other retail brands) & Technology (edu-tech, fin-tech, health-tech, etc.).
The Indium team comes from a diverse background with experience across Corporate Finance, Business Consulting & Strategy; and in the past have advised on multiple M&A and Fundraising transactions with total transaction value of over US$ 3 billion.
AZB & Partners
AZB & Partners is one of the prominent Indian law firms in India. It was founded in 2004 with a clear purpose to provide reliable, practical and full-service advice to clients based on an in-depth knowledge of the legal, regulatory and commercial environment within which our clients operate and a full understanding of their overall business objectives. The firm now has 6 offices across Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, and Pune, with a driven team of 450+ lawyers.
The firm has been involved in advising in the field of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and general corporate, regulatory practice and securities laws, private equity, capital markets, funds practice, banking and finance, infrastructure and project finance, real estate, media and entertainment, employment, insurance, intellectual property, taxation, aviation, competition law, and litigation and arbitration.
The Firm has received wide national and international acclaim within the legal sphere, some of which include ‘Ranked No.1’ by RSG Top 40 India law firm ranking, 2017; ‘Best Law Firm of the Year – India’ by Corporate USA Today – Law Awards 2018; ‘Law Firm for the Year 2017-18’, and ‘Best Overall Law Firm – 2017-18’ by India Business Law Journal.
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