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Ankur Thadani
Partner, TPG
Ankur Thadani
Partner, TPG
Ankur Thadani is a Partner with TPG Growth and RISE Funds, and co-heads the India office. He leads healthcare, consumer and climate investing across TPG Growth and The Rise Fund platforms in India and the region. Prior to joining TPG in 2013, he worked with an Indian private equity fund, India Equity Partners, focusing on investments in consumer and healthcare sectors. Ankur received his MBA from IIFT and was awarded Gold Medal for outstanding overall achievement. He currently serves on the boards of API Holdings, Stelis Biopharma, Steriscience Specialties, Asia Healthcare Holdings, Asiri Healthcare, Campus Activewear, Fourth Partner Energy and Solara Active Pharma.
Anand Kumar Bajaj
Founder, MD & CEO, PayNearby
Anand Kumar Bajaj
Founder, MD & CEO, PayNearby
An IIM-A alumnus and a Chartered Accountant, Anand Kumar Bajaj is the Founder, MD & CEO of PayNearby. With over 21 years of experience in Digital Payments and Mobility, Anand holds six patents in banking technology and has worked earlier with YES Bank, ICICI Bank, and Ernst & Young. Previously, he was the President and Chief Innovation Officer at YES Bank, where he led several high-impact programs in digital payments. At PayNearby, Anand steers the company’s strategic direction and growth, and he, along with his team, is committed to enabling the reach of digital payments and financial services at the first mile by empowering retailers.
Amit Dixit
Sr. Managing Director, Private Equity - India, Blackstone
Amit Dixit
Sr. Managing Director, Private Equity - India, Blackstone
Amit Dixit is the Head of Asia for Blackstone Private Equity. Since joining Blackstone in 2007, Mr. Dixit has been involved with various investments and investment opportunities in India and South Asia. Previously, Mr. Dixit was a Principal at Warburg Pincus. Mr. Dixit received an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MS in Engineering from Stanford University, and a B.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai where he was awarded the Director’s Silver Medal for graduating at the top of his program. He currently serves as a Director of several companies including Mphasis, TaskUs, Aadhar, Essel Propack, Aakash Education, Sona Comstar, IBS Software, Jagran Prakashan, Mid-Day Infomedia, and Piramal Glass. Mr. Dixit was previously a Director of Intelenet Global Services, Trans Maldivian Airways, Igarashi Motors India, S.H. Kelkar, and Emcure Pharmaceuticals.
Ashok Kaul
Dy. Director-General, NIC, MeitY, Govt. of India.
Ashok Kaul
Dy. Director-General, NIC, MeitY, Govt. of India.
Aditi Manchanda
Partner from the Corporate / M&A and Private Equity practice, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Aditi Manchanda
Partner from the Corporate / M&A and Private Equity practice, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas- Investment by Gaja Capital in Kinara Capital a non-banking finance company (NBFC) that provides loans to small to medium level enterprises engaged in the business of vehicle financing.
- Acquisition of majority stake by Creation Investments India in Vivriti Capital, an NBFC that is engaged in lending, private and public placement of debt securities/ loans/ preference shares/ asset sales and is a technology-based marketplace for connecting institutional issuers and investors.
- Acquisition of majority stake by True North in Shree Digvijay Cements, a listed company engaged in the business of cement manufacturing.
- Investment by Morgan Stanley in a subsidiary of Ashoka Buildcon which is engaged in the business of LNG distribution.
- Represented BanyanTree Growth for its co-investment with Morgan Stanley in NSPIRA Management Services, a company engaged in education support services to K-12 schools run by Narayana Education Society.
- Investment by True North in Fedbank Financial Services, a subsidiary of Federal Bank and an NBFC that provides loans against property, gold loan, construction loans and structured finance loans.
- Acquisition by the Adani Ports of the Kattupalli Port in Tamil Nadu from the L&T Group.
- Investment by Warburg Pincus in a group entity of Piramal Realty for the development of real estate projects, both residential and commercial, in Mumbai.
- Investment by TPG Growth and existing investors Norwest Venture Partners and Evolvence in Ess Kay Fincorp, an NBFC engaged in the business of vehicle financing.
- Sale of controlling stake by the shareholders of Home First Finance, a housing finance company to True North.
- Investment by the Carlyle Group in Dee Development, Infrastructure Company.
- Exit by Deutsche Bank, Singapore from the Lodha Group.
- Investment by BanyanTree in Kanakdurga Finance, an NBFC engaged in the business of gold loan and vehicle financing.
- Proposed acquisition by Warburg Pincus and General Atlantic of Sharekhan Group.
Aditi Manchanda is a Partner in the Mumbai Office of Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas and has cumulative professional experience of over 10 years. Prior to joining Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas in 2015, Aditi was part of PE and M&A practice at J. Sagar Associates, Mumbai. Aditi also seconded with India offices of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), where she was the in-house legal for KKR India entities.
As a member of the general corporate practice group at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, her work involves general corporate advisory and transactional matters, which mostly include PE and M&A transactions. As part of some of her recent M&A and PE transaction experience, she has been actively involved in regulatory processes and compliance advisory work specifically with industry regulators such as SEBI, RBI, and FIPB/Department of Economic Affairs.
She has represented some large corporate houses, promoters, private equity funds, banks, and financial institutions in cross border M&A transactions and foreign private equity investments.
Illustratively, to name a few key transactions (announced in public domain) that she has worked on, they include:
She has worked on private equity investments and M&A transactions across sectors like financial services, ITES and e-commerce, consumer, retail, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, real estate and infrastructure.
Anil Talreja
Partner, Deloitte India
Anil Talreja
Partner, Deloitte India
Alok is a Senior Strategy Leader with over 20 years of experience in consulting across growth strategy, corporate strategy, mergers & acquisitions, market entry strategy, innovation & performance improvement advisory. He has led several commercial diligence engagements across Auto, IT, Pharma & Healthcare, Retail etc. He has had extensive international consulting experience being based out of US, India, Europe, and APAC. He works with Global Corporate Boards, Promoters, CEO’s, PE players as part of his Strategic 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.
Karan Kalra
Founder, Bombay Law Chambers
Karan Kalra
Founder, Bombay Law Chambers
Karan is the founder of Bombay Law Chambers and has over 15 years of experience in the legal industry, having worked in house as well as with one of Indian most prestigious law firm Nishith Desai Associates, where along with being a leader of the M&A and PE practices, he also led the banking and financial services vertical.
His practice focuses largely on domestic and cross border venture capital and private equity transactions, M&As, JVs and structured finance along with providing regulatory and general corporate advice. Karan works across sectors and has domain expertise in financial services, technology, e-commerce, healthcare, renewables and core manufacturing. Further, Karan also has the experience working with one of the largest private banks in India, working across various verticals.
Karan completed his B.SL. LL.B. from Symbiosis Law School, Pune and has also pursued a masters from Northwestern University – Pritzer School of Law and Kellogg School of Management. He is eligible to practice law both in India and New York, USA.
Karan has regularly been recognised by various legal directories such as IFLR 1000, Legal 500 and the Financial Times - RSG Consulting Survey.
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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:
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• Banking and Finance
• Insolvency & Bankruptcy
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• Projects and Project Finance
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• 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 and Mergers & Acquisitions. 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, Consumer Brands & Digital/Technology.
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.
https://www.indiumcapital.com/
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