Our speakers

Amish Mehta, Partner-Valuation, Modeling & Economics, EY

  • Amish is a Partner with the Valuation, Modeling & Economics team.
  • He joined EY in 2000 and is currently based in the  Mumbai, India office
  • From 2000 to 2003 Amish was part of transactions tax team in EY.
  • Amish is a Chartered Accountant from ICAI (2001) and Cost and Management Accountant from the Institute of Cost Accountants of India (2002).
  • Amish’s has been involved in more than 400 valuation engagements
  • Amish works across sectors such as telecom, technology, automotive, chemicals, financial services.

Skills and professional experience
Amish’s key competencies includes equity/business valuation, brand and other intangible valuation for various purposes such as swap ratios/share entitlement ratios, other transactions, restructuring, regulatory requirements, financial and NAV reporting

Some of the marquee assignments are as follows:

  • Merger of Sun Pharma and Ranbaxy
  • Valuation of several insurance companies –life & general – for interse transfer amongst shareholders after increase in FDI limit
  • Merger of Centurion Bank of Punjab Limited into HDFC Bank
  • Merger of ShashunPharmaceuticals into Strides

Skills and professional experience

  • Merger of various entities of Mahindra Group’s auto ancillary business
  • Valuation of Idea Cellular Limited
  • Valuation for Bosch Group
  • Assisted Munich Re, German insurance company, for scouting for Indian Partner which ultimately resulting in stake acquisition in HDFC’s existing general life insurance business
  • Valuation of portfolio companies of IDFC Private Equity / Kotak Private Equity / Multiples Fund

Amishi Kapadia, Senior President & Global Head Merchant Banking, YES Securities

Amishi has over 22 years of experience in Capital Markets in India. She has successfully managed to raise equity for over 75 corporates in both private and public sector, mobilizing close to INR 1,400 billion. Prior to joining YES SECURITIES, she has worked with SBI Capital Markets, Kotak Mahindra Group, Bennett & Coleman & Co. and HDFC Bank. She holds a degree in International Finance & Business from SIPA, Columbia University, New York and an MBA from India.

Amit Lakhotia, GM - Payments, One97 Communications Ltd

Amit Lakhotia looks after payments and deals business of Paytm. After passing out of IIM Ahmedabad,  worked with MakeMyTrip for about four years to build their B2B business from scratch to an annual sales topline of about 500Cr. Post that he dabbled in his own venture in cab space.

Amit Agarwal, Group CFO, Raymond Ltd

Amit Agarwal, President & Head - Private Credit, Edelweiss Alternatives

Amit Agarwal has 2 decades of experience in Private Credit & Special Situation financing, corporate financing, Investments, deal structuring, deal origination, restructuring, performance improvement & turnaround management, acquisition financing, investment banking and corporate finance.

Amit is one of the founding members of the Private Credit & Special Situation business at Edelweiss and has played key role in business development and growth. He has significant relationships across banks, promoters and market participants. He currently leads the flagship $1.3 billion distressed asset fund raised by Edelweiss.

He has led acquisition/investment in stressed assets across strategies and has been instrumental in resolution of large assets. Amit has originated and invested more than ~USD 1 billion across stressed assets transactions. He has been involved in managing the entire lifecycle of large investment and creating exit strategies in several assets.

Prior to Edelweiss, Amit was associated with ARCIL, the first ARC in India, and was a part of strategic business group where he played a key role in portfolio monitoring and analysis. He has also worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers earlier, where his focus was performance improvement and financial restructuring.

Amit is an All India Rank-holder Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from the Lucknow University too.

Amit Anand, Founding & Managing Partner, Jungle Ventures

Amit Anand is the Founder and Managing Partner of Singapore based Jungle Ventures, a entrepreneur backed venture firm that funds and helps start-ups scale across Asia Pacific. Prior to starting Jungle, Amit has spent over 12 years in Asia Pacific working for start-ups and corporations across various roles in Product, Marketing and Sales & Business Development. A Kauffman Fellow(Class 18), Amit is extremely passionate about Asian innovators and inventors. He is also presided as Vice Chair on the Board of Business Angels Network South East Asia (BANSEA) for the last 3 years

Amit Bakshi, MD, Eris Lifesciences Pvt. Ltd

Amit Bakshi has over 20 years of experience in sales & marketing and is a well known face in the pharmaceutical industry. He has managed large teams, launched products, built blockbuster brands and headed multimillion dollar divisions for leading companies of the industry prior to founding Eris Lifesciences in 2007. 

Amit Banka, Founder & CEO, BeeGram Business Doctors Pvt Ltd

Amit Banka, a professional turned Entrepreneur, founded “BeeGram Business Doctors” - a consulting outfit with a differentiated approach. Establishing BeeGram, he has partnered with businesses in the field of Media and Entertainment, Agriculture, Food & Beverages, Technology and E-Commerce. Amit, a strategic thinker, brings extensive experience in running business operations and identifying business opportunities; engaging across business verticals, value chain and corporate finance activities.

With an exposure to a wide range of businesses such as Agriculture/ Horticulture, Media & Entertainment, FMCG, Hospitality, Technology, Capital Markets and Financial services, he has spearheaded operations as Managing Director of Unilazer Ventures, a multi-faceted multimillion dollar fund based in Mumbai. Prior to Unilazer Ventures, he lead multiple business initiatives and functions both in India and overseas for various corporate houses, including Disney/ UTV Group, Essel/ Zee Group, Salora Group.

Holding an MBA and a science graduate, Amit has led a distinguished career across sectors, identifying key trends and offering strategic solutions to businesses leading to significant value creation.

Amit Bhagat, CEO and Managing Director, ASK Property Investment Advisors

Amit Bhagat, CEO and Managing Director, ASK Property Investment Advisors

Amit co-founded Real Estate practice of ASK Group in 2008. At ASK, he manages INR 5,000 cr ($750 mn) of Real Estate Investments. He has an experience of managing / advising investments of $1.25 bn in his current and previous assignments as Head of ICICI Property Services. He has over two decades of experience in financial services mainly in the mortgage and real estate business. Previously, he was also the National Credit Head for the mortgage division of ICICI Bank.