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IMARTICUS LEARNING PVT LTD

Imarticus was formed with an aim to become India’s leading Financial Services and Analytics professional education company.

The company empowers individuals and large organizations in meeting their human capital and skillset requirements through a range of bespoke programs delivered through classroom and online learning. Imarticus has educated 10,000+ individuals globally, managed by a fully integrated online learning management and governance system.  

Over the last three years, Imarticus has also emerged as the preferred sourcing, training and skill development partner for over 120 firms, which include leading Global & Domestic Banks, Consulting, KPO’s, Technology & Analytics firms. Some of these clients include HDFC Bank, BNP Paribas, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Aditya Birla, KPMG, Accenture.

Founded by Nikhil Barshikar and Sonya Hooja, Imarticus is headquartered in Mumbai, and has presence in over 10+ cities in India, with a headcount of 150+ employees.

IMMPL

In its 13th year of operations, International Money Matters Pvt. Ltd. is a financial planning-cum-investment advisory organisation, in the business of helping clients achieve their financial goals. We firmly believe that the ‘Financial Planning’ route is the way forward in advising our clients on their financial matters. This is also advocated by the Financial Planning Standards Board, India which is affiliated to the FPSB, Denver USA. We are committed to this path and have made it mandatory for all our advisors and relationship managers to enroll in the ‘Certified Financial Planner’ programme promoted by the FPSB The pillars of our business are honesty, competence and relationship. We believe that the client’s interest comes foremost, and we stand with him in all matters related to personal finance. Therefore his trust is sacrosanct to us and we ensure that our advice is always unbiased, impartial and objective. We also believe there is no substitute for knowledge and each of us is committed to a path of learning and constant up gradation of our skills; so as to deliver the best in terms of products and services to our clients.

Having been founded as “Money Matters” in 2001 in Bangalore by Lovaii Navlakhi, Money Matters at first used to be an office from his home with a laptop and a client base of 15-20 investors. He added on by 2002, clients in cities other than Bangalore, specially Mumbai, two employees, Shweta Jain and Uday Dhoot, an office by 2003, 100 clients by 2005, a transformation to a private limited company by 2006, another branch office, this time in Delhi by 2007.

Today International Money Matters Pvt.Ltd is a 40 people strong organisation, with offices in Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi, a client base of 400+ families from across India and the world – US, UK, Middle East and South East Asia. Assets under management of over Rs.500 Crores and a risk cover of Rs.250 Crores, and a belief that it will only get better.

Having being at the helm of affairs always, Lovaii has made sure that his attitude permeates through the entire team at IMMPL and therefore their focus is always on long term relationships, and ensuring that the client’s interest always comes first.

Ethics, Integrity and Expertise are a way of life at IMMPL and perhaps this is how we have been able has been able to create a niche for ourselves in this business of financial advisory.

IMS Health

Founded in 1954, IMS Health is a leading global information and technology services company providing clients in the healthcare industry with end-to-end solutions to measure and improve their performance. With its presence in over 100 countries, IMS Health is built on foundations of integrity, simplicity, dedication and professionalism, and takes pride in its steady growth and expansion in newer areas. One such area that the company entered in 2011 was Financial Institutions Consulting (FIC).

FIC is a dedicated team of strategy consultants and advisors within the IMS Health’s Consulting Group across the globe, working with financial services clients to create and maximize the value of their investments in the healthcare industry.

Since 2014, the company has been a part of almost 100 deals, having advised for a total transaction value above $3 Bn. Some of the key deals that the company has been associated with across various regions are Skyepharma-Vectura, Temasek-Intas, Xellia-Novo, Everstone-Dial Health, Quadria-Concord, Temasek-Sun Pharma and Temasek-Glenmark. In 2015, IMS Health India has worked closely with investment firms on some of the largest deals in the Indian market and has advised clients in CRAMs, API, Formulation and Distribution space.

The company’s rigorous and analytical approach combined with market-leading information assets allows it to provide value across investment types, strategies and situations such as Private Equity, Pharma Royalty Monetization, Public Equities, Public Company M&A, and Private Debt Placements. IMS Health works with its clients across all stages of the investment lifecycle to help discover, develop and maximize investment value - identify and screen companies, commercial due diligence, portfolio company strategy, and exit value maximization.

Beyond investors, the company also works extensively with pharma and biotech companies on strategic and corporate development engagements. It has expertise in Provider, MedTech, and other ancillary healthcare sectors.

Some of its FIC clients include Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Temasek Holdings, Blackstone, Everstone, Motilal Oswal, ICICI Ventures, Chrys Capital among others. IMS Health is not only admired for its comprehensiveness of analyses, adherence to challenging timelines and collaborative work-culture with client and target company management, but has also been looked up as an entrusted partner of the restricted information by its esteemed clients.

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INDCAP

INDCAP is a boutique investment bank that believes in creating value for itself   by creating value for its clients. With more than 100 man years of experience,   Indcap's expertise lies in structuring the transaction to meet the client's   objective with great precision. Integrity and Innovation are the key differentiators for our success. The highly qualified and experienced management team possesses flawless transaction execution capabilities. An extensive network of domestic and international relationships with investors, lenders, corporates and high net worth individuals gives complete flexibility to Indcap in executing the mandate given by its client successfully.

INDCAP provides a wide range of advisory services to both listed and unlisted companies across all industries. The wide range of services include Fund mobilization, Debt, Equity, Hybrid, Financial restructuring, Structuring strategic deals, Business restructuring, Mergers & Acquisitions, Credit rating advisory, Transfer Pricing Advisory and Proprietary Investments in our portfolio companies.

India Equity Partners

India Equity Partners (IEP) IEP manages an India-focused, long-term, growth-oriented private equity fund with approximately $350 million of capital. IEP has offices in New York, Mumbai and Mauritius. IEP is part of a $2 billion pool of affiliated funds dedicated to India. We follow a fundamental research-driven investment philosophy with an investment horizon spanning 4-7 years. IEP aims to partner with outstanding entrepreneurs and management teams in fast growing sectors as a value-added investor. We are committed to assisting our portfolio companies and we accomplish this by leveraging the experience and relationships of our team members for strategic thinking, operations improvement, customer expansion, acquisitions, recruiting senior management and assistance with fund raising. We typically invest $20 to $60 million in a single investment but will invest larger amounts with co-investors and partners.

Steven Wish is a Co-Founder of IEP and is also a member of the fund Investment Committee and Board of Directors. Steven is also Vice Chairman of Ireo, an India focused real estate fund. Steven retired as a Partner and Managing Director at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he worked for 17 years in corporate finance, M&A, capital markets and investment management.

Sid Khanna is the Chairman of IEP Fund Advisors and has over 30 years of financial services, strategic advisory, operations and outsourcing experience. Sid was the former Country Managing Partner of Accenture. Sid serves on the boards of leading Indian companies such as United Spirits and CanaraHSBC.

Anurag Bhargava is a Co-Founder of IEP and is also a member of the fund Investment Committee and Board of Directors. Anurag is also the Chairman of Ireo, an India focused real estate fund. He was previously a Principal and Head of Private Equity at MSD Capital (the private investment firm of Michael Dell and his family).

K.K. Iyer is a Managing Director of IEP and is responsible for investments in the Life Sciences and Education Sectors. KK also serves on the boards of IEP portfolio companies.

Gaurav Mathur is a founding Managing Director of IEP. Previously he was a Principal with JPMorgan Partners and before that with Deutsche Bank. Gaurav serves on the boards of Ocean Sparkle and Ikya HR Services.

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India Life Sciences Fund II

India Life Sciences Fund II is a Private Equity fund that provides growth capital to established companies in pharma, healthcare, and medtech industries in India. Examples of funds usage include capacity expansion, introduction of new products, acquisitions, etc. The typical investment size is in the range of USD 5 - 25 million over the life of the investment for a significant minority stake.

Fund I made 8 investments during the period 2007-12 including a specialty generic injectables company with US FDA approved manufacturing facilities;  a US FDA approved manufacturer of specialized medicines for treating Central Nervous System disorders; India's largest producer of Vitamin D3; India's largest network of cancer hospitals, and one of India's Top 3 private ophthalmology networks.

InvAscent team members have deep domain expertise and track record of value creation in pharma and healthcare industries. The team is closely involved in assisting portfolio companies execute against their business plans.

For more information, please contact:
Director, Investments
tp.devarajan@invascent.com
Telph: +91 40 2354 1305

India Value Fund Advisors (IVFA)

India Value Fund Advisors (IVFA) was established in 1999 with a focus on investing in and transforming mid-sized profitable businesses into world-class industry leaders, built on the strong foundation of IVFA Values. Steered since its inception by Vishal Nevatia, IVFA has built deep knowledge and skills in the Indian markets and has successfully launched five separate investment funds with a combined corpus of over US$ 1.8 billion. Currently, IVFA is investing out of IVF - V, which has a corpus of US$ 682 million.

IVFA follows either ‘Buy and Build' or ‘Invest and Build' business model. In ‘Buy and Build’, IVFA acquires majority equity stakes, partners with high quality management teams and entrepreneurs to build scale and profitability.  On the other hand, in ‘Invest and Build', IVFA acquires significant minority equity stakes and plays a supportive role to existing entrepreneurs in transforming businesses. Over 70% of all capital invested by IVFA till date is under Buy and Build model.

IVFA’s insights and understanding of India has been sharpened over the last 16 years by investing over US$ 1 billion in more than 40 Indian businesses. It has successfully guided these companies in making the transition into well established and large businesses that are valuable, enduring, socially responsible and are creating immense wealth for all stakeholders. Although sector agnostic, IVFA has built strong understanding of sectors like Media & Entertainment, Healthcare, Logistics, Supply Chain & Retailing, Infrastructure Services, Education and Clean Energy.

The IVFA team has been structured with a balanced mix of 9 Investment and 16 Business Managers, who bring with them several hundred man-years of industry experience to achieve the above objective. 
IVFA truly values its relationships with investors, entrepreneurs and management teams. It is also very conscious of its fiduciary duty towards the capital under management. This capital has been contributed by over 35 high quality international institutions with a combined investible capital base of over US$ 1 trillion. For more information on IVFA, we request you to please visit http://www.ivfa.com.