World Renowned Faculties

Avinash Kalia, Associate Director, (Corporate Finance & Investment Banking), PWC

Avinash has over 27 years of experience across Investment Banking as well as Industry with exposure to Capital Markets as well as M&A activities. He is currently working as Associate Director in the Corporate Finance & Investment Banking team at PwC and focusses on Private Equity Fund raises and Mergers & Acquisition assignments.

He is an Alumnus of the Sydenham Institute of Management.

Aviral Jain, Director, Duff & Phelps

Aviral is a director in the Valuation Advisory Services group of Duff & Phelps based in New Delhi. Aviral is responsible for the overall management of the New Delhi office.

Aviral joined Duff & Phelps in 2015 through the firm’s acquisition of American Appraisal. He is a financial advisory professional with more than 10 years of experience in valuation and corporate finance. His experience includes valuation of business enterprises, intangible assets including intellectual property, and financial instruments. He has performed numerous valuations for business transactions, disputes & litigation, financial reporting under IFRS and USGAAP, and tax purposes. He has also advised clients on several domestic and cross-border acquisitions and transactions involving private placement of equity.

Prior to Duff & Phelps, Aviral worked with the Corporate Finance practice of KPMG and was responsible for management of the firm’s valuation practice in North India. He has also worked with the Financial Advisory Services practice of Deloitte.

He has been a speaker at several events organized by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), ASSOCHAM and VCCircle. Additionally, he is a regularly quoted by the financial press on valuation related matters and his research on valuation of technology start-ups has been published in media publications like
Businessworld and Yourstory. He also authors the study on Celebrity Brand Valuations, our annual thought leadership publication, which has found its coverage in some of the leading financial newspapers in India.

Aviral received his Masters in Business Administration degree in finance from Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, and his under graduate degree in commerce from Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the CFA Society of India. At CFA Society of India, he is a Chairperson on the Investment Research Challenge Committee and is actively involved in the society’s Delhi chapter. He recently became a member of RICS in India and is a FINRA Foreign Affiliate.

Azmul Haque, Founder, Managing Director, COLLYER LAW LLC

Education
QLTT, College of Law, 2005
BA LLB (Honours) National Law School of India, 2001

Bar Qualifications and Language Proficiency
Azmul is admitted and qualified to practice law in Singapore, England and India. He is admitted as a Solicitor, England & Wales; Advocate, India; and Advocate & Solicitor, Singapore. He speaks English, Hindi and Bengali.

Areas of Expertise
Azmul has lived and worked in 3 countries (England, India, Singapore) and over the last 15 years, he has developed particular expertise in complex, cross-border corporate transactions (acquisitions and divestitures, joint ventures and strategic alliances, public and private equity, venture and angel financing), commercial contracts (outsourcing, franchising and licensing, various) and regulatory matters in a range of areas that impact business – whether for start-ups or billion-dollar enterprises.

Azmul has worked extensively with MNC and Asian corporations, family-owned businesses and high-net worth individuals across Asia. He has represented these clients on corporate transactions, commercial contracts and regulatory matters in several jurisdictions in Asia, particularly the India, Singapore, ASEAN and other developed and emerging market countries in APAC. He has lived and worked in Mumbai, Singapore and London. He has been rated as a leading practitioner for the TMT sector, and has experience across a number of industries, particularly technology, telecoms, real estate, healthcare and the leisure sector.

Prior to joining Collyer Law LLC, Azmul was a Consultant Partner at Olswang, and a Partner with Shook Lin & Bok LLP. He has also worked with Silver Circle law-firm, Berwin Leighton Paisner in London, and top Singapore law-firm, Wong Partnership LLP.

Azmul is ranked and recommended by several legal industry directories including Chambers Asia, Asia-Pacific Legal 500 and Global Law Experts (for TMT) and featured regularly in Asian Legal Business and Indian Business Law Journal. He has been described as being "committed and approachable with a good knowledge of several jurisdictions" (2011-12, Legal 500). Azmul is also a “Top 40-under40” lawyer, as ranked by Asian Legal Business in 2016.

B N Srikrishna, Justice (Retd), Supreme Court Of India

B. Renganathan, Executive Vice President, Edelweiss

A seasoned Compliance and Governance professional with 26 years of experience in corporate laws. Expert knowledge in Capital market transactions, Corporate restructuring, M&A, Advisory, PE, Companies Act, NBFCs, ARCs and Securities Regulations.

Primary interface with the Regulators viz., SEBI, RBI, Stock Exchanges. Advising new businesses structures, drafting policies and structuring commercial transactions. Primarily responsible for BOARD management and handling regulatory inspections and show cause notices. A member of the sub-committee - Company Law Review committee on Companies Act, 2013, a member of CII on capital markets. Strong ability to identify and communicate " tough issues" and influence change by working effectively across various functions and levels of management. Proven ability to develop a longterm vision and culture of compliance across a large enterprise.

Belinda Tan, Partner, Fraud Investigation and Dispute Services Assurance, Ernst & Young Advisory Pte. Ltd.

Belinda specialises in investigations, anti-corruption and litigation support engagements. She has led enquiries in Asia Pacific and Greater China where she lived for almost 6 years. These enquiries related to corruption, FCPA, financial statement manipulations, assets misappropriation issues and computation of damages. Belinda also specialises in forensic due diligence projects where she worked alongside the Transaction Services Team to assist clients address integrity and regulatory risks.

Belinda started her career in Singapore as an external auditor at Ernst & Young more than 20 years ago where she qualified as a Chartered Accountant. During which, Belinda managed ad-hoc and statutory operational and financial audits. These included review of the clients’ internal control systems and accounting procedures and providing recommendations to senior management in instances where systems and/or procedural weaknesses were found.

Belinda’s portfolio of clients included statutory boards, trading, contract-manufacturing and pharmaceutical companies as well as fund managers and venture capitalists.

Belinda subsequently worked with a Fortune 50 oil and gas conglomerate as a global internal auditor, where she was involved in numerous operational and financial projects for upstream, downstream and commercial sectors of joint ventures and affiliates in Asia, Australia and the United States.

Belinda re-joined Business Advisory in 2004 where she began her specialisation in forensic and litigation support work. She performed and managed projects in many countries and across numerous industries. In this capacity, Belinda's portfolio of clients included pharmaceutical, healthcare, medical devices, energy & resources, construction and trading companies.

Belinda has written several articles including “Buyer beware – seller get ready”, “Suspected fraud – leverage those charged with governance” and “Look before you leap: the hidden costs of M&A”.

Bhavin Gada, Associate Partner, ECONOMIC LAWS PRACTICE

Bhavin Gada is an Associate Partner in the Corporate and Commercial practice of ELP. He is a commerce graduate with a law degree from the University of Mumbai. Bhavin got his Masters in Business Law from the National Law School of India University (Bangalore). He is also a qualified Solicitor from Bombay Incorporated Law Society.

With over 9 years of experience in Private Equity and M&A transactions; Bhavin has advised funds and multinationals on various aspects such as entry, inbound and outbound acquisitions, domestic fund formation, joint ventures and other commercial transactions for their India-related forays. He has advised clients across sectors including services, retail, real estate, pharmaceutical and healthcare, IT, aviation, telecom and infrastructure.

Bhavin’s expertise in exchange control regulations, SEBI, real estate, contractual arrangements and general corporate law is an added advantage on M&A transactions. Several private equity funds and hedge funds consult him on various matters of importance.

Prior to joining ELP, Bhavin was with Rajani Associates from 2007 to 2011. Prior to Rajani Associates, Bhavin was a litigation lawyer practicing at the High Court of Bombay with C. R. Naidu and Co.

CA Rajkumar. S. Adukia, Partner, Adukia & Associates (Chairman of Internal Audit Standard Board, ICAI)

Mr.Rajkumar Adukia is an eminent business consultant, academician, writer, and speaker. Mr. Adukia, senior partner of Adukia & Associates has advised number of large organizations on their Internal Control System. He has been instrumental in performing countless Internal Audit assignments. His eye for detail in analyzing the internal control requirements of an organization and dedication towards the completion of the task has won him acclaims. He is currently the Chairman of Internal Audit Standard Board and the Committee for Members in Industry of ICAI.

He has authored more than 34 books on a wide range of subjects. His books on Internal Audit especially the “Manual on Internal Audit” offers a complete coverage on the various aspects of internal audit and assurance assignments. The book on “Professional Opportunities for Chartered Accountants” is a handy tool and ready reference to all Chartered Accountants. His books on IFRS are worth reading for the practical aspects and comprehensive view on the subject.

Chaitanya Arora, Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting, Singapore

Experienced business advisor with a wide breadth of exposure to both buy-side and sell-side transactions and fund raising involving strategic and financial buyers and sellers from the middle market to large cap LBOs and listed companies, enabling valuation and investment decisions. Experienced in transactions in multiple geographies including U.S., Norway, France, U.K. Turkey, Congo, Gabon, India, U.A.E., Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Australia, Indonesia, Thailand and Philippines.

In addition, currently focused on the development of our forensics, litigation and arbitration practice, and acting as party appointed financial expert for matters in dispute. Have been appointed as an Expert Witness on several matters, with expert witness testimony experience.

Specialties: Dispute Resolution, Financial Expert for Litigation/Arbitration, Deal Origination, Financial Due Diligence, Business Modeling, Valuation, Commercial Due Diligence, Post Deal Integration, and SPA negotiation.

Chaitanya Arora, Partner, Accuracy Singapore

Chaitanya is a partner at Accuracy in Singapore. He started his career with the Big 4 accounting firms in Chicago in 2000 and has been involved in providing due diligence services to a vast variety of clients across the globe. In 2006, Chaitanya moved to Singapore with a Big 4 accounting firm and gained extensive experience in cross border M&A in South East Asia and India. He has been responsible for leading client accounts including large private equity funds and listed corporates, and supported clients on in-bound and out-bound M&A situations with due diligence and other related advisory support.

He has experience in transactions in several industries such as retail, manufacturing, telecom infrastructure, information technologies, power generation, agricultural commodities, hospitality, educational institutions, airport services, FMCG, real estate, logistics and distribution. He has been involved extensively in transactions of varying sizes in the U.S., India, China, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, United Arab Emirates, Philippines, Turkey, Norway, France, Malaysia and West Africa. Chaitanya is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

He is a graduate of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA,  and is a non-practicing member of  the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, CPA Australia and the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants. At Accuracy, Chaitanya is responsible for the India office, and spends a significant proportion of his time in Singapore, advising globally present clients with their M&A strategy and execution.