Senior Associate, Deals
Pwc - United Arab Emirates
Total years of experience :8 years, 11 Months
Mergers, acquisitions, integrations and buyouts.
1) Advised clients on strategic, commercial and operational matters related to M&A, significant minority stake and buyout transactions, transformations and various business development/growth initiatives
2) Buy / sell - side acquisition transaction diligence. Work includes conducting market and business assessment, creating a combined business plan and performing DCF, sensitivity and scenario analyses
3) Integration strategy and planning, market-entry strategy formulation for clients
4) Assessing market dynamics and developing feasibility studies to advise shareholders in determining strategic and inorganic growth options
5) Operational and financial due diligence on a range of transactions
Responsibilities: Include developing the firm’s private equity initiatives, deal origination and execution with
a specialized focus on sector investment initiatives.
Leveraging network to gain valuable insights from industry experts in order to provide top level management consulting for buy-side investment advisory.
Executed full-cycle Buyout/ Growth Investment deals worth $110M and collaborated with management to
negotiate valuations, produce and present financial models, reports, pitchbooks and Information Memorandums.
Broad role with responsibilities spanning Sector coverage, Deal origination and Execution for TMT (Technology, Media and Telecom) Sector. Special focus on high-growth New-gen Mobile, Analytics, Cloud, Digital and IoT businesses within broader Technology sector.
Running end-to-end Design Services, Robotic Process Automation(RPA) and Fintech transactions in the M&A and Strategic Capital Advisory segments. (Both buy and sell side transactions)
Involved in several aspects of a transaction, including preparing Investor Pitches(both buy-side and sell-side mandates), Financial Models, Investor Memorandums from scratch. Performing Industry and Company Research to prepare pitch collaterals.
Getting on Investor and Client briefing calls. Collaborating with CXO's at client companies to drive due diligence.
• Firm Profile: Closely knit team brokering to Khandwala Securities Ltd., Pune.
• Skills Attained: Research and valuation. Fundamental Research. DCF Modelling. Idea generation.
• Role Description: Analyzing financial data and identifying economic/industry trends to help make important investment decisions.
• Actively tracked the small and mid-cap space in the Indian Equity Markets to pursue, research upon and generate new investment ideas on scripts.
• Assisting in building financial models and carrying out in-depth financial analysis.
• Providing my own views and valuations on stocks after helping with relative and DCF based valuations.
• Latest Update : researching on auto-ancillary stocks.
Performed financial statement analysis, sector/company valuation and analysis for investment purposes.
Conducted industry research and followed market trends, formally acquainted to volume analysis.
Aggressive and conservative DCF valuation, Relative Valuation and analysis support.
Part of the team creating a full-blown investor pitch to present to Department Heads with Lupin Pharmaceuticals being the most recent pitch.
Major focus on pharmaceutical sector buy-side research and analysis. Leveraged this internship to complete my final year project during my undergrad studies.
* Analyzed financial statement entries. Learnt preparation of financial statements (Revenue
Recognition Accounting Principle, etc.)
* Assistant to Department Head.
June 2021 Level 2 Candidate in the CFA Program. Cleared Level 1 exam in June 2017 (7 out of 10 subjects top bracket).
Certified Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA)® from the Corporate Finance Institute.
Passed with First Class. Merits :- 1)Maintained a consistent top 3 ranking in my entire batch, with improving scores & overalls every semester. 2)Ranked 2nd in the entire Batch in the final exam. 3) Obtained 94 marks out of 100 in the Finance Specialization subject - Cases in Finance. 4) Lauded by Finance professor for having the best final year project on a college-wide basis. (Highest marks achieved on a college-wide basis)