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Veda
Veda is a leading mid-market investment bank. Founded in 2004, Veda has closed over 45 Transactions, handled deals aggregating to over $800mn and expanded its presence to Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad.
Veda provides advisory services to companies and entrepreneurs in the areas of
- Fund raising (venture capital/private equity & debt syndication)
- Mergers & Acquisitions
What Differentiates Veda
- Relationship Oriented Approach: The firm continued association as a trusted advisor to several clients, stands testimony to its approach to transactions
- Diversity in Industry Coverage: Veda has concluded transactions in several domains, including IT/ITeS, Real Estate, Manufacturing, Retail, Healthcare, Agriculture, to name a few.
- Wide Reach: Veda has successfully closed transactions with a wide range of investors and best in breed corporates. The firm has advised on several cross-border transactions, each resulting in strong local businesses partnering with large global players.
Veda Corporate Advisors
Veda is a leading investment bank providing focused advisory services to companies and entrepreneurs.
Veda offers independent advice and customised solutions on private equity fund raising and M & A.
With a dedicated and experienced team spread across offices in Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad, Veda brings a strong track-record in handling a variety of transactions.
Veda has successfully closed more than 85 transactions amounting to USD 3 Billion in value, across a spectrum of industries such as Healthcare, Technology, Real Estate, Infrastructure, Food/Agriculture, Consumer Services and Business Services.
In the healthcare space, Veda is amongst the top ranking investment banks having crafted close to 20 transactions across segments (Health care delivery - Multi specialty and Single Specialty hospital chains, Diagnostic Services, Medical technology and Contract research)
Veda’s recent M&A transactions include IHH’s proposed investment in Global Hospitals, IHH’s acquisition of majority stake in Continental Hospitals and Intertek acquisition of analytical division of QPS Bioserve among others.
Veda’s recent PE transactions in healthcare include Olympus Capital’s and India Value Fund’s investments in Aster DM Healthcare, CDC’s investment in Rainbow Hospitals, India Value Fund’s investment in Trivitron Healthcare, Konark Capital’s investment in Agappe Diagnostics and LGT Venture’s investment in MyDentist, among others.
Venus Inda Asset Finance
Venus India Asset Finance Private Limited (“Venus India”) is a Delhi based Non-Bank Finance Company (NBFC), which specializes in direct lending to small and medium enterprises (SME’s). Venus India is registered with the Reserve Bank of India as a Non Deposit Accepting Non-Banking Financial Company.
Venus India provides debt finance to SMEs through a comprehensive bespoke credit solution focusing on the needs of a growing business. Venus India is a premier independent credit institution leveraging the experience of global best practices and local economic development to meet the growing credit requirements of Indian corporates.
Venus India’s solutions are designed to suit the entrepreneur’s needs, be it for promoter funding, margin financing, loan against securities, option incentives financing, pre-IPO funding, succession issues, buyouts and acquisitions, and/or structured solutions for other reasons.
Venus India is promoted by Venus Capital Management, Inc. ("Venus Capital") in Boston and is primarily funded by US pension funds and family offices from US and Europe. Venus Capital was founded in 1994 and is registered with the Securities & Exchange Commission in the United States as a Registered Investment Advisor. Venus Capital specializes in generating alpha from India and is focused on developing low risk strategies for institutional investors from Europe and US. Venus has been a pioneer in launching the first India focused hedge fund in US, in 1995 and the first arbitrage fund for India in 1993. Venus has partnered with RP&C, International, London and Goel family office (Dhampur Sugar) from Delhi for the direct lending strategy executed through the NBFC.
Mr. Saurabh Bhat, has recently joined Venus India as CEO and a Director. He has over 17 years of experience in various capacities in leading organizations like Calyon Bank, Citibank, Rabobank, and ICICI Limited. Prior to joining Venus India, Saurabh Bhat was the CEO and a Director at Ambit Finvest Limited.
Venus India Asset Finance Private Limited
Venus India Asset Finance Private Limited (“Venus India”) is a Delhi based Non-Bank Finance Company, which specializes in direct lending to small and medium enterprises (SME’s).
Venus India is registered with the Reserve Bank of India as a Non Deposit Accepting Non-Banking Financial Company.
Venus India provides debt finance to SMEs through a comprehensive bespoke credit solution focusing on the needs of a growing business. Venus India is a premier independent credit institution leveraging the experience of global best practices and local economic development to meet the growing credit requirements of Indian corporates.
Venus India’s solutions are designed to suit the entrepreneur’s needs, be it for promoter funding, margin financing, loan against securities, option incentives financing, pre-IPO funding, succession issues, buyouts and acquisitions, and/or structured solutions for other reasons.
Venus India is promoted by Venus Capital Management, Inc. ("Venus Capital") in Boston and is primarily funded by US pension funds and family offices. Venus Capital was founded in 1994 and is registered with the Securities & Exchange Commission in the United States as a Registered Investment Advisory Company. Venus Capital is an investment advisor to several family offices, high net worth individuals, institutions, fund of funds, pension funds, and endowment funds.
RP&C International, an investment banking firm providing specialist advisory services to public and private companies internationally, and the Goel Family, the promoters of Dhampur Sugar Mills Limited, are the advisor/partners of Venus Capital and Venus India respectively.
Mr. Saurabh Bhat, has recently joined Venus India as CEO and a Director. He has over 17 years of experience in various capacities in leading organizations like Calyon Bank, Citibank, Rabobank, and ICICI Limited. Prior to joining Venus India, Saurabh Bhat was the CEO and a Director at Ambit Finvest Limited.
Veradis Capital
Veradis provides Investment Banking advisory services (M&A and PE fundraising) with a focus on Healthcare and Consumer sectors. Veradis 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).
The Veradis 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 PE fundraising transactions for leading healthcare and consumer brand companies with total transaction value of over Rs 3000 crores.
VERINT
Verist Law
Verist Law was established in 2014 and has offices in Mumbai and Bangalore. The ?practice areas of Verist Law ?include corporate governance and compliance, debt and equity capital markets, general corporate, M&A and structured finance?.
Verist Law has been advising on transactions across several sectors particularly food, warehousing and logistics, manufacturing, tech, telecom, and real estate. ?
VISA
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