World Renowned Faculties

Rajan Wadhawan, Partner - Financial Advisory Services , Deals, PwC

Rajan is a graduate in Commerce from the University of Delhi and is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He has over 20 years of professional experience on advising domestic and international clients on valuations, transactions,  mergers and acquisitions, corporate and financial restructuring, purchase price allocation, business plan reviews, transaction support and modalities, finance raising, regulatory assessments and corporate requirements of doing business in India.

He leads the Valuation & Strategy national practice at PwC. He has worked for a broad range of top tier Indian and Overseas clients and has extensive experience in the supervision of large valuation and merger and acquisition assignments across industry segments. He has extensive experience of working on cross border acquisitions. Rajan  has served as a special invitee to the committee set up by the Govt of India to frame valuation related guidelines. He has also authored the Institute of Chartered Accountant’s of India technical guide on “Estimation of Future Cash Flows and Discount Rates for the purpose of Impairment of Assets”.

Clients Served: Avantha Group, Malanpur Power, Star Aluibuild Private Limited, Greenko, Amar Ujala, Ballarpur Industries, Crompton Greaves, CBRE, DS Construction, Escorts Hospital and Research Centre, E.I. Dupont, Havells, Hindustan Times, Pepsi, HCL Group, Ikan Relocations/IR Moving Limited, Global Green, JK Tyre and Industries, JK Group, JK Lakshmi Cements, Motherson Sumi Systems, Oracle SRF and SPIC amongst others.

Rajesh Simhan, Head of Tax, Nishith Desai Associates

Rajesh Vig, Executive Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers Pvt. Ltd.

Rajesh Vig, an executive director at PwC India, is an expert in corporate finance and investment banking. With his over 13 year long association with PwC, Rajesh has overseen mergers and acquisitions, divestments and private equity fund raising. More specifically, he is responsible for business generation and execution, and client relationship management for the firm.
In his professional career, Rajesh has worked with varied domestic and international companies in the edible oil, FMCG agriculture, industrial products, textiles, retail space to name a few. Rajesh has assisted these companies on diverse issues including mergers and acquisitions, divestments, fund raising (both private equity and debt), valuations, business plan reviews, forming joint ventures and restructuring. In the last five years Rajesh has led PE assignments that have resulted in a total equity fund raising of approximately Rs 1,000 crore.   

Rajiv Singh, Founder, Explico Consulting

Rajiv has more than eighteen years of experience in business valuation, corporate finance and business strategy consulting. Rajiv has provided a broad range of valuation-related services to clients in numerous industries. He is an expert in performing complex transactional valuation analyses including valuation for compliances like transfer pricing valuation, fair value estimation for IFRS, valuation for FEMA and intangible assets valuation. He has experience serving as either an expert witness or consultant in array of valuation related to litigation and particularly economic damages for breach of contract. He has appeared as expert witness before Hon’ble (RETD) chief Justice of Supreme Court of India and in ITAT in leading valuation cases relating to economic damages and transfer pricing.

Rajiv is a fellow member of the ICAI. After spending his formative days with a leading firm of chartered Accountants, he currently provides valuation related services to the clients of varied segments and sizes. He is a qualified Certified Information system auditor (USA)and also a qualified valuer from the ICAI.He has since 2008 trained more than 3000 Chartered Accountants through these highly specialized post qualification courses. He has reviewed more than 1000 project reports prepared by the participants of these courses.

Rajiv is a founder of Explico Consulting which is one of the leading exclusive valuation consulting firm in India that specializing in business valuation with a focus on expert witnessing and litigation related valuation. Explico has served more than 100 valuation clients in India, USA, UK, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Mauritius, and Dubai during last three years and is one of the few consulting company in India where summer interns from five IIMs are trained in business valuation.He has been a speaker in more than 600 seminars and training programs on finance related topics at different professional/industry platforms including ICAI,VGSOM  (IITKGP), ASSOCHAM, PHD Chambers and other similar forums.

Rajiv Sundar, Senior Director, Deloitte Touche & Tohmatsu

Mr.Rajiv Sunder is a M&A Transaction Services Senior Diector based out of Bangalore. He leads the TMT industry vertical for transaction services.

He has been with Deloitte India for over 19 years. Prior to transitioning to transaction services, he was with the audit practice working on audit engagements of some of the largest Clients of the firm in Bangalore. He has focussed on transaction services for the past seven years and has worked with a wide array of clients (both multi-national companies and large Indian corporate) with a focus on the Technology sector but also on a number of transactions in the consumer business, infrastructure and manufacturing sectors.

Rajiv has worked on some marque transactions in India and overseas. He has managed large multi-locational engagements and worked equally on a number of cross-border transactions involving Indian Companies looking to acquire overseas businesses and MNC’s investing into India. Since 2012, Rajiv has been managing Deloitte India’sTechnology Fast 50 events, an award program which recognizes the fastest growing companies in the technology sector in India. Rajiv is a Fellow member of the Chartered Accountants of India. He has presented at various forum on M&A and transactions services in specific.

Raju Dodti, Senior Director Legal, IDFC

Raju Dodti has been with IDFC since 2007 as an in-house counsel. Currently, he is Head of Legal Department for Alternatives platform consisting of Private Equity, Infrastructure Equity & Real Estate asset classes.  As a Fund Counsel, Raju advises on portfolio investments, structured transactions, regulatory and legal issues in relation to alternative investments.  He also advises on setting up of new funds, both onshore & off-shore, for IDFC’s businesses.
 
As a member of IDFC Legal & Compliance department, Raju has also advised on legal issues & documentation surrounding infrastructure & project financing, treasury borrowing (both rupee & ECBs), strategic investments, human resources, property matters, administration and investment banking.
 
He has earlier worked with organizations like Rabo India Finance (a subsidiary of Rabobank International), ABN AMRO Bank N.V., Societe Generale, etc. and has extensive experience in advising on legal matters pertaining to wholesale banking, structured finance, investment banking, diamond banking, etc.
 
Raju has completed his B.Com. from Mumbai University followed by an LL.B. from Government Law College, Mumbai.

Rakhi Jindal, Co Head - Privacy Practice & International Commercial Laws, Nishith Desai Associates

Rakhi Jindal is a member of the Technology and Telecoms Practice Group at Nishith Desai Associates (www.nishithdesai.com). She co heads the Privacy Practice and the International Commercial Laws Practice at the firm.

Rakhi has been advising her clients on various domestic and cross border matters. She specializes in helping her clients navigate a dynamic web of domestic and international laws regulating data protection, privacy and laws relating to intermediaries. She has extensive experience with issues relating to the Internet, new technology and e-commerce.

In addition, she has significant expertise in private equity investments, joint ventures, asset acquisitions and business transfers with a special focus on entities whose businesses revolve around e-commerce and content.

She has authored various articles and research papers and has presented at various forums on matters pertaining to intellectual property, privacy and data protection. She continues to be associated with various educational institutions such as IIT and the National Entrepreneurship Network.

Rakhi graduated from ILS Law College, Pune in 2005 and holds a Bachelor’s degree in law from the Pune University.

Ralph Ward, Boardroom Expert & Publisher, Boardroom INSIDER.com

Ralph Ward is an internationally-recognized writer and commentator on the role of boards of directors, the secrets of how “benchmark” boards excel, corporate scandals and reforms, and the future of governance worldwide.

Ward is publisher of the online email newsletter Boardroom INSIDER, the worldwide source for practical, first-hand advice on better boards and directors (www.boardroominsider.com).

He is author of the books Boardroom Q&A (2011), The New Boardroom Leaders (2008), Saving the Corporate Board (2003), Improving Corporate Boards: The Boardroom INSIDER Guidebook (2000), and 21st Century Corporate Board (1997).

He speaks extensively on boardroom issues in the U.S. and internationally, presenting programs on boardroom best practices.

Ward has also edited The Corporate Board magazine, the international journal of corporate governance, since 1990.

Ramachandran Venkatesan, Company Secretary, Wipro Limited

Ramachandran is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI).

He has also acted in the capacity as Chairman of the Corporate Affairs Committee of the Bangalore Chamber of Commerce and Industry and also made presentations in various programmes, seminars and study circle meetings conducted by CS forums, BCIC, CII, ICAI and ICSI from time to time apart from networking with other fellow professionals in this field.

He has wide ranging experience in corporate law for listed companies, including mergers and acquisitions and other corporate law matters in India and abroad. He has also received ICSI’s National Award for Corporate Governance on behalf of Wipro Limited as its Company Secretary. His name also appeared amongst the list of experts who gave their views for the new Companies Act as listed by the Standing Committee of Parliament which looked into the law. In additional he has also been handling liability insurance placements, claims etc for Wipro.

Ravi Singhania, Managing Partner, Rajani, Singhania & Partners

Mr. Ravi Singhania is Managing Partner of Rajani, Singhania& Partners LLP with an experience of more than 20 years in international arena. He is an alumnus of Sri Ram College of Commerce and Campus Law Centre, University of Delhi. Heis admitted as an Advocate, Supreme Court of India and Solicitor, Supreme Court of England and Wales.

Mr. Singhania has advised Ministries, large PSUs, Banks and MNCs on legal issues relating to Cross-Border Transactions, Mergers & Acquisitions, Foreign Collaborations, Investment Options, Disinvestment, Corporatization, Debt & Equity Offering, Technology Transfers, Security Exchange Board of India Regulations, Tax, Transfer Pricing, Restructuring, Real Estate and Dispute Resolution. He has been adviser to World Bank on issues relating to Foreign Direct Investment since 2004.

Heis on the board of CRISIL Ltd., Unitech Ltd., and Assets Care &Reconstruction Enterprise Ltd, and also on the board of Indian subsidiaries of number of fortune 1000 companies such American Bureau of Shipping, America Online, McGraw-Hill, National Instruments etc.

Hewas the youngest lawyer to be felicitated with the “National Law Day Award” for Corporate Laws (2006) by Prime Minister Dr. Man Mohan Singh.

Mr. Singhania has been identified as one of the most highly-acclaimed legal experts in Asia-Pacific in Corporate Sector by Asia Law Leading Lawyers Survey and has been highly recommended as "A leading lawyer in Corporate/ M&A" by The Chambers Asia - Chambers & Partners.