World Renowned Faculties
Kalpana Jain, Senior Director, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India Pvt. Ltd.
Kalpana Jain is a Senior Director at Deloitte India. She has nearly 25 years of experience providing advice and counsel on M&A, financial and commercial due diligence, valuation and fund raising. She expertise in providing credible solutions on matters of disinvestment, privatisation and financial modelling has earned her a formidable reputation in her line of business.
She is the co-chairperson of Venture Capital Association of India and speaks regularly with top tier media as well as at prominent industry conferences. She has been recently recognised as one of the 25 Most Talented Woman Professionals of India by CMO Asia & World Brand Congress.
She has earned a Masters in Business Economics from the University of Delhi.
Kalpana Unadkat, Partner, Khaitan & Co
Kalpana is a solicitor and a senior partner at Khaitan & C0’s Mumbai office. Prior to joining Khaitan, she worked at Ashurst’s London office for 10 years. Kalpana is qualified to practise both Indian laws and English laws. While working in London, she played a key role in building Ashurst’s India practice and built a team at Germany, Milan, Paris and Singapore.
Kalpana's practice has always been broad based. While the initial focus was driven by energy and projects, her practice has developed with the changing Indian economy to encompass corporate and M&A transactions. Her work can be best described as a combination of traditional corporate work (M&A, joint ventures, etc.) and project work across a range of sectors.
Having set up Ashurst’s India practice and since returning to Mumbai in 2008, she specialises in cross border joint ventures and mergers & acquisitions by delivering practical solutions to clients on doing business in India. She is experienced in leading diverse teams in dynamic environments while achieving success in competitive markets.
She is focused and has a consultative and collaborative style. She regularly acts for international companies and is recognised in independent guides as one of the leading lawyers.
Some of the clients Kalpana has advised include Expedia, Babcock & Wilcox, Eris Lifesciences, KEC international, Mahindra & Mahindra, Visa Steel, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, Unocal Corporation, McCain Group, Devidayal Limited, Raychem RPG Limited, Waterlogic plc, etc.
Kalyan V. Sivalenka, Founder & Managing Director, Springforth Capital Advisors
An astute finance and investment advisory professional who believes in strong ethical and professional conduct of business. Before founding Springforth he had over 14 years of wealth and investment banking experience with Kotak Mahindra Bank, CITI Bank and HDFC Bank. He was responsible for teams and profit centres through his career and has sharp business instincts and wide network that helps put clients and the organization on strategic optima.
He is a CFA Charter Holder from CFA institute USA and did his Masters in Business Management. He was pre-placement mentor for IIT-Chennai and guest lecturer for Business Schools in Osmania University.
Apart from being an academician and executor, he is an accomplished orator and enjoys theatre & traveling. He has a voracious appetite for learning and is fascinated by the domains of Behavioural Economics and Financial Quant.
Kapil Bellubi, Director, Valuations Bangalore, India, Deloitte
Kapil is a director in the Valuation Services group of Deloitte based in the Bangalore office. In his current capacity, Kapil is responsible for the overall management of the South India valuation practice. Kapil has over 14 years of experience in corporate restructurings, business modelling, business intelligence and transaction support through valuation analysis. In addition, he has extensive experience in executing business enterprise valuations, high-court merger valuations and purchase price allocation exercises for various regulatory purposes including IFRS, SFAS, IGAAP and Income Tax.
As part of his career, Kapil drove several pioneering valuation thought leaderships including Brand Valuations in the Indian Premier League and Celebrity Brand Valuations, both of which received significant media attention. Prior to joining the firm, Kapil worked with Duff & Phelps, Grant Thornton and KPMG.
Kapil is a regular contributor on media and training platforms such as Yourstory.com and VC Circle as an expert in the valuation domain. Kapil holds a Master’s degree in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Karan Gupta, Partner, Transaction Advisory Services, BDO India LLP
Karan is a Partner with BDO & Heads the Corporate Finance Advisory Services. Has over 14 years multi-sector experience focused specifically towards Mergers & Acquisitions, Joint Ventures, India Entry Strategy, Business Strategy Consulting with a multi-sector focus experience. With a sector agnostic approach, he has sourced and advised on both domestic & cross border (international) projects in M&A (both buy & sell side), Fund Raising (Debt/Equity) and Strategy consulting assignments.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Mergers & Acquisitions – Cross Border & Domestic, Private Equity Funding, Business Strategy
Karan Gupta, Partner, BDO
Karan Kalra, Founder, Bombay Law Chambers
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.
Karan Kalra, Founder, Bombay Law Chambers
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.
Karan Kalra, Co-Head Banking & Finance Practice, Nishith Desai Associates
Karan, based out of Mumbai, is a senior member of the Corporate and Securities practice at Nishith Desai Associates and also co-heads the Banking and Finance practice at the firm. Karan’s practice primarily focuses on banking and structured finance transactions, private equity and venture capital investments, merger and acquisitions and generally corporate advisory matters. He has advised various clients across several jurisdictions and sectors with a specific industry focus on the financial services sector.
Prior to joining Nishith Desai Associates, Karan has experience working with one of the largest private banks in India. Karan completed his LL.B. from Symbiosis Law School, Pune and has also pursued an LL.M. from Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, USA. He is eligible to practice law both in India and New York, USA.
Karan Marwah, Partner - Accounting Advisory Services, KPMG India
Karan is Partner - Accounting Advisory Services at KPMG India. He has over one and a half decades of experience providing financial reporting and accounting advice to companies from various industries in India, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, the US and elsewhere on IFRS, US GAAP. HKFRS, Indian GAAP and is well versed with capital market regulations in the US, Singapore, Hong Kong and India.
Specialties: Technical accounting, GAAP conversions, IFRS, US GAAP and Indian GAAP. Accounting for revenue recognition, taxes, business combinations, consolidation, analysis of JV agreements .