Private equity and venture capital are among the most important sources of funding for companies with high growth potential. Such funding not only helps these businesses scale up, but also supports them with strategy, processes, expansion, market intelligence as well as mentorship at critical stages of their development. Company’ need right investment at right time to make it big and successful. Classic examples are Flipkart, Paytm, Byjus, Dream 11 & Ola.
India is one of the most attractive & emerging investment destinations for PE VC funds. That said, funds are increasingly becoming selective while making investment decisions and quality of business is a priority. Given the economic and other impact of the Covid-19 Crisis, it is important to be abreast of the emerging issues across business sectors, growing expectations amongst the funds and their impact on PE/VC deals.
On the other hand, a lot of effort goes in finding the right investor for a business or vice versa. When you do, it is important to have investment agreements that represents the interests of everyone involved. The investor would want to make sure its investment is protected, and the company will want to make sure that the funds are delivered smoothly and the founders have protected their stake in the venture. This makes writing a proper investment contract a critical first step in the business relationship. Clear & unambiguous investment agreement is very significant to establish a win-win situation for the parties involved in any PE, VC and M&A Deals.
VCCircle’s upcoming workshop will equip delegates decode Government policies, and their impact on commercial transactions; preparing potential sellers to handle M&A; preparing companies to raise funds or expand their companies, exit planning alternative potential exit routes. This program will also create a solid understanding of the documenting processes relating to PE/VC and M&A transactions, valuation considerations and deal making in the post-covid era; the future of tax on deals; key tax watch outs and mitigation strategies; identifying commercial issues and producing clear instructions to lawyers and executives involved.
It will also help in equipping with the technicalities involved in clear and well thought out term-sheet negotiation, proper deal structuring know-how to maximize returns and unambiguous deal documentation to avoid pitfalls and will enhance your deal-making skills that you can immediately put into practice.
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Presenter: Imran Jafar, Managing Partner, Gaja Capital
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Raja Lahiri, Partner, Growth & TMT Sector Leader, Grant Thornton Bharat & Viswanath P, Partner, Grant Thornton Bharat
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Presenter: Yash Bansal, Partner, Trilegal
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Presenter: Anil Talreja, Partner, Deloitte India
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Presenters: Karan Kalra, Founder, Bombay Law Chambers
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Trainer: Aniket Jalgaonkar, Climate Lead – APAC India, AXA Climate
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Presenter: Imran Jafar, Managing Partner, Gaja Capital
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Presenter: Karan Kalra, Founder, Bombay Law Chambers
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Presenter: Anil Talreja,Partner, Deloitte India
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Presenter: Kunal Shah, Partner, Price Waterhouse & Co LLP.
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.
Imran is a Managing Partner at Gaja Capital (www.gajacapital.com).
Gaja is India’s leading mid-market growth capital firm. Gaja’s aim is to help create India’s next generation of market leaders in sectors such as Education, Consumer, Financial Services, Healthcare and SaaS.
Imran has 21 years of experience in Private Equity, Pharmaceuticals and Technology services. Prior to Gaja, Imran worked in a variety of roles of increasing responsibility at Dr. Reddy’s and Wipro Technologies.
At Gaja, Imran leads investments in the Education and Consumer clusters. He has been closely involved with Gaja’s investments in Leadsquared (Sales tech SaaS), Educational Initiatives (Ed-Tech SaaS), Kangaroo Kids (Pre-K and K-12), KOOH Sports (Performance Sports), SportzVillage (Youth Sports), EuroKids (Pre-K and K12), John Distilleries (AlcoBev), CL Educate (Supplemental Education) and Indus World Schools (K12).
Imran has post graduate degrees in software engineering from BITS-Pilani and an MBA from IIM-Bangalore.
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.
Kunal Shah has over 14 years’ experience in the field of Indian tax and regulations.
He advises clients in the private equity and venture capital space (domestic and foreign), including real estate, infrastructure and debt funds, onshore and offshore fund structures, distribution waterfall, structuring of earned interest and tax due diligence. He has wide experience in the area of laws including Income tax, Corporate law, Foreign Exchange laws, FDI Policy, SEBI regulations, NBFC regulations, etc.
Kunal helps clients obtain regulatory approvals and tax certificates for investments or exits, and advises them on tax due diligence, and restructuring of their Indian businesses, profit repatriation strategies and capital structures, including waterfall sharing and transaction-related tax negotiation, at the time of exits, etc. He also advises NBFCs, portfolio managers, stock broking organisations, mutual funds, merchant banks, asset management companies, etc., on tax and regulatory matters. In addition, he works closely with leading financial services players and industry bodies in their representations to policy-makers and tax authorities.
Kunal has a postgraduate degree in Law and is also a Chartered Accountant.
Raja leads the Private Equity Advisory Initiative for the Firm and covers sectors like Technology, Media and Financial Services Sector within Corporate Finance. Raja focuses on various aspects of deal making starting from deal origination and ideation, preliminary deal analysis, due diligence (financial and commercial), valuation, deal negotiation and advise on deal agreements. He also advises clients on post deal integration matters and ideation of exits for Private Equity Funds. Raja has advised and led more than 240+ deals over the past decade of transaction advisory experience and has worked with corporates (India and multinational) as well as leading Private Equity Funds.
Raja spent close to 20 years in one of the large accounting and advisory firms and had co-founded the transaction advisory practice.
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