Rajesh is the Founder and Managing Partner of Equanimity Investments. He has been a prolific angel investor for over a decade and has developed a deep understanding of the Indian entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystem.

He is an active member of Mumbai Angels and is also the Founding and current Chair of the Corporate Reporting Users’ Forum. He is a TiE Mumbai Board Member and Co-Chairs TiE’s FinTech Special Interest Group. He is a member of  the  Steering Committeeof NASSCOM 10,000 Startups.Rajesh has been an active secondary market investor for the last 24 years, 17 years of which, he worked with the emerging markets group of Franklin Templeton. He was also managing Templeton’s emerging markets private equity investments over these 17 years.

A Wharton alumnus, Rajesh has earlier obtained a management degree from XLRI specialising in Finance and Marketing. He is a CFA charter holder and has also earned a post graduate diploma in securities law from Mumbai.

Umakanta is a managing director in the Valuation Advisory Services group in Duff & Phelps based in Mumbai. In his current capacity, he is responsible for the overall financial valuation practice in Mumbai.

Umakanta joined Duff & Phelps in 2015 through the firm’s acquisition of American Appraisal. He has over 15 years of experience in financial advisory services including valuation, equity research, credit research and other advisory services. Umakanta has managed a range of valuation and consulting services including business valuation, portfolio valuation, intellectual property valuation, purchase price allocation and impairment assessment, financial instrument valuations and other IFRS and USGAAP related engagements.

He has also advised several clients on swap ratio determination, corporate finance, business plan development and review, exit strategies and dispute consulting.
Umakanta has managed and executed a range of financial advisory engagements for energy, utilities, infrastructure, private equity, insurance and financial services healthcare, telecom, media and entertainment, retail and IT and ITES industries for mergers & acquisitions, accounting and tax reporting, transfer pricing, litigation and strategic purposes.

His specialization includes valuation of complex financial instrument (such as complex convertible instruments, earn-out and contingent payments, cross-currency interest rate swaps, options and other hedging instruments). He has also advised several companies on distress debt transaction, earn-out structuring and ESOP structuring.

Prior to joining American Appraisal, Umakanta has worked with the Financial Advisory Services practice of Deloitte and Investment Research & Valuation team of Evalueserve.

Umakanta holds a Master    of Business Administration degree and a    Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration.

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:

• 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.

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.

Tejas has been with Deloitte in India for around 16 years working across Assurance and Financial Advisory practices. 

In his association with the valuations services of Deloitte in India, Tejas has successfully assisted and lead in various engagements spanning valuation of shares, businesses, intangibles portfolio valuations, for a host of purposes including fund raises, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and regulatory purposes and across a variety of sectors spanning manufacturing, energy and resources, infrastructure, hospitality, retail, financial services and TMT.
Tejas has served a broad repertoire of listed / unlisted clients / Indian and International business groups.